NEW YORK CITY (JTA) – Until the last day of his life, Carl Reiner was tweeting about some of his favorite topics: politics, comedy and the twists and turns he experienced over decades as one of the world’s greatest living funnymen. Reiner died Monday, June 29, at 98, several hours after reiterating his dismay that Donald Trump had become president, […]

New series with celebrity seniors sharing stories, wisdom, and a few laughs while they navigate life under quarantine. SAN FRANCISCO – Comedic legend Carl Reiner offers the wit, wisdom and candor to help audiences navigate life under quarantine in the latest episode of the new digital series, Dispatches from Quarantine. The episode featuring Reiner premiered this week at Silver Screen Studios and on You Tube. Dispatches from […]

By BEN SALES NEW YORK CITY (JTA) – On Monday, there’s a Jewish space that hosts two Torah classes and the taping of a podcast. On Wednesday, the space offers a Jewish TV show for kids and a discussion of Jewish history. On Friday night and again on Saturday morning, it hosts several prayer services simultaneously — some experimental, some […]

By EDWIN BLACK Nothing will be the same as we enter our new age—the Remote Age. We can wish a return to the jam-packed days that effervesced everywhere until earlier this year when COVID-19 suddenly burned across the globe. But the return to what we knew will not happen. Of course, some of it will come back with a yelp […]

By RON KAMPEAS NEW YORK CITY (JTA) – With its glittering assembly of stars, jokes that worked and attendees who could, well, sing, it was the Zoom Seder you wished you had. The Saturday Night Passover Seder that aired on YouTube Saturday, April 11, brought together dozens of celebrities and raised $2.6 million for the CDC Foundation, the nonprofit wing […]

WESTHAMPTON BEACH – The Hampton Synagogue’s Passover Yizkor memorial service led by Rabbi Marc Schneier has been pre-recorded and will be broadcasted to more than 49 million homes across the country via JBS (Jewish Broadcasting Service) television station. The Yizkor memorial service includes psalms performed by Cantor Netanel Hershtik accompanied by Maestro Izchak Haimov and the Hampton Synagogue Choir. The […]

By MARCY OSTER NEW YORK CITY (JTA) — Comedian Larry David called on “the idiots out there” to stay home and watch TV in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus. David’s 90-second rant is a new public service announcement for the state of California was released by the office of Gov. Gavin Newsom on social media. “You’re […]

By GABE FRIEDMAN NEW YORK CITY(JTA) — As always, the Golden Globes was a coming together of some of Hollywood’s biggest Jewish talents. There weren’t many Jewish award winners at the glitzy ceremony on Sunday night, Jan. 5, but here are our favorite Jewish moments from one of the industry’s biggest nights of the year. Quentin Tarantino spoke Hebrew to […]

By EMILY BURACK NEW YORK CITY (JTA) – After winning an Emmy Award for the second straight year, Alex Borstein of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” movingly dedicated this victory to her Holocaust survivor grandmother, who defied the Nazis to stay alive. “Step Out Of Line!” “My grandmother turned to a guard … She was in line to be shot into […]

By JOSEFIN DOLSTEN NEW YORK CITY (JTA) – For “Borat,” his 2006 film, Sacha Baron Cohen went undercover as a made-up Kazakh journalist who travels America and gets unwitting targets to share his boorish and sometimes bigoted opinions. In “Who Is America,” the Jewish actor creates a variety of characters who manage to get prominent Americans to say shockingly offensive […]