Jews in the News

Jews in the News: Mike Nichols, Yael Grobglas and Dominic Fumusa

Mike Nichols and Being Jewish

Director MIKE NICHOLS, the Berlin-born son of German Jewish refugees, died on November 19, age 83. You can easily find print and on-line biographies of Nichols. What is harder to find is material about his relationship to his Jewish background after his early d…

Jews in the News: Elizabeth Banks, Jerry Steinfield and Eric Trump

Hunger, Eating and More

“Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part I,” opens on Friday, Nov. 21. To make more money, the studio decided to take the last “Hunger Games” novel and turn it into two movies. Jennifer Lawrence stars again as the heroine, Katniss, with ELIZABETH BANKS, 40, returning …

Jews in the News: Jon Stewart, Daniel Radcliffe and Mila Kunis

At the Movies/Movie News

“Rosewater” is the first film directed and written by JON STEWART, 51.  It is based on a memoir by Iranian-Canadian Newsweek reporter Maziar Bahari about his 107-day imprisonment in solitary confinement by the Iranian regime. A few days before Iran’s 2009 pre…

Jews in the News: Paul Reiser, Seth Rogen and Lisa Kudrow

At the Movies/Movie News

“Whiplash,” which opens in several Tampa theaters on Friday Nov. 14, has already earned rave reviews from tough critics like A. O. SCOTT of the NY Times. Miles Teller (who has one Jewish grandparent), stars as Andrew Neiman, a 19-year-old (Jewish) jazz drummer w…

Jews in the News: Walter Isaacson, Ezra Miller and Mila Kunis

More than Minyan of Innovators

 

The new popular history, “How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution,” by WALTER ISAACSON, 62, is already a best seller. To his credit, Issacson does discuss the Jewish background of five of the most important “innovat…