(JTA) — During a ceremony announcing the winners of the Genesis Generation Challenge, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wanted to set aside any confusion: “No, the [Genesis Prize] award will not go only to a ruggedly handsome international heartthrob named Michael,” he jested. Bloomberg last year won the inaugural $1 million prize, bestowed by…
Actor Michael Douglas spoke out against anti-Semitism in an Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Times. Douglas recalled that last summer his son, Dylan, was verbally assaulted at a pool at a resort in southern Europe because he was wearing a Star of David necklace. “Afterward, I sat down with my son and said: ‘Dylan, you…
Nearly two years after its founding, the Genesis Prize Foundation has given away or promised $2 million in prizes. Yet, the hoped-for impact of the award, as defined by the foundation’s founding CEO, remains difficult to gauge. The CEO himself, meanwhile, has silently left the organization without public notice. Genesis Prize officials decline to say…
Michael Douglas poses with Michael Bloomberg after winning the $1M Genesis Prize. / Getty Images When Michael Bloomberg was named the first recipient of the Genesis Prize last year, I wasn’t alone in wondering why a billionaire businessman and politician whose Jewishness was mostly hidden and whose ties to Israel were tenuous at best was…
Actor and peace activist Michael Douglas has been named winner of the 2015 Genesis Prize. The decision was announced on Wednesday night by the Genesis Prize Foundation. The $ 1 million prize will be awarded by human rights activist and Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky and the prime minister of Israel in Jerusalem on June…
Getty Images Ynet reports that Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones are in Jerusalem with their children as part of the bar mitzvah celebration of their son Dylan. Eyewitnesses reported seeing them check in two days ago to the King David Hotel, where they’re staying in the presidential suite at a reported cost of 19,000 shekels…
Oprah Winfrey and Hillary Clinton were among the surprise guests who showed up to say goodbye to Barbara Walters during her last taping of “The View” on Friday. The journalist filmed her final appearance on the ABC talk show, celebrating a career of more than 50 years in TV news. The question now is, who…
“Why Sandra Bullock as the voice of Golda Meir?” I asked Richard Trank, director of the documentary “The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers” which opens October 18 at The Quad, in New York City. Bullock, now starring in the mega-hit “Gravity” may leave filmgoers speechless, but as the voice of prime minister Meir, she lacks the…
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