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Steven Spielberg’s Oscars are about to have some company. On Wednesday the Genesis Prize announced that the director behind such films as “Jaws” and “Schindler’s List” was selected for the “Jewish Nobel,” which comes with a $1 million prize. For the first time in its history, world Jewry was invited to vote on who would…
If I had to choose one image to represent the phrase “having it all,” it would be a simple snapshot of Natalie Portman, best known as an actress but also a climate activist, vegan lifestyle evangelist, literary influencer, promoter of those social justice causes already widely accepted in Hollywood, sports entrepreneur, and alleged disrupter of…
Natalie Portman, patron saint of the vegans, the Marvel fans, and the Oscar-snubbed female directors, has stepped in to play fairy godmother to yet another constituency: fans of women’s soccer. On Tuesday, the actress and a largely female group of investors announced their intention to form a National Women’s Soccer League franchise in Los Angeles,…
It’s not easy to make Harvard-educated multi-millionaire super model Oscar-nominee Natalie Portman look like the people’s hero. But that’s where we are this week, thanks to Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola. The two legendary directors grabbed headlines this month when they declared their disdain for movies from Marvel, the superhero blockbuster factory that gave…
The Natalie Portman film “Lucy In The Sky” was made because of a diaper. In 2007, NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak grabbed headlines when she drove 950-miles across country to apprehend her ex-boyfriend’s then-girlfriend. Nowak, who was later charged with attempted kidnapping and attempted murder, told police that she wore a diaper on the drive so…
Space diapers. Love triangles. Attempted murder. The trailer for “Lucy In The Sky,” Natalie Portman’s upcoming space flick, has none of those things. The real life story on which it is based has all of them. The official trailer for the movie based loosely on the life of former-NASA astronaut Captain Lisa Marie Nowak dropped…
In Marvel’s 2011 superhero movie “Thor,” Natalie Portman played lead character Chris Hemsworth’s love interest. Hemsworth was a relatively unknown actor, Portman was well into her second decade as an A-lister. He played a literal god, she played a scientist who guided his fashion decisions while he handled saving the world. He was physically enormous…
In 1997, novelist and cultural critic Cynthia Ozick wrote an article for the New Yorker criticizing the “distortion” of the historical and literary figure of Anne Frank. “Complicit in this shallowly upbeat view,” she wrote, are two unlikely confederates — Frank’s father Otto, and a promising child actress named Natalie Portman. Portman starred on Broadway…
Hybrid: Online and at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan
Oct 2, 2022
6:30 pm ET ·
A Sukkah, IMKHA, created by artist Tobi Kahn, for the Marlene Meyerson JCC of Manhattan is an installation consisting of 13 interrelated sculpted painted wooden panels, constituting a single work of art. Join for a panel discussion with Rabbi Joanna Samuels, Chief Executive Director of the Marlene Meyerson JCC of Manhattan, Talya Zax, Innovation Editor of the Forward, and Tobi Kahn, Artist. Moderated by Mattie Kahn.