Jews in the News

Jews in the News: Josh Gad, Steven Spielberg and Dustin Hoffman

Nobel Tribe Members

MICHAEL ROSBASH, 73, a professor at Brandeis Univ., was one of three co-winners of the Nobel for medicine/physiology. The trio’s award is for discoveries that explain how plants, animals and humans adapt their biological rhythm so that it is synchronized with the Earth…

Jews in the News: Gal Gadot, Sarah Silverman and Harrison Ford

Wonder Woman, Star Trek, and Silverman

GAL GADOT, 32, will host “Saturday Night Live” on Oct. 7. The Israeli star of the mega-hit “Wonder Woman” will again appear as Wonder Woman in the blockbuster “Justice League” which opens Nov. 17.

It’s possible that “Star Trek: Discove…

Jews in the News: Hank Greenberg, Kyra Sedgwick and Elliot Gould

At the Movies: Opens September 29

“American Made” stars Tom Cruise as the real-life Barry Seal, a hustler and pilot that the CIA recruited to run a huge covert operation in the 1980s involving drugs and guns. LOLA KIRKE, 26, has a large supporting role as the wife of a suspicious Arkans…

Jews in the News: Jeffrey Tambor, Tracee Ellis Ross & Barry Levinson

The Tribe at the Emmys

The 69th Primetime Emmy Awards will be broadcast live on CBS on Sunday, Sept. 17 at 5PM. Stephen Colbert will host. The Creative Arts Emmys are awarded on Sept. 16 (FXX cable, 8PM, taped). The Creative Emmy categories include guest actor on a series, documentaries, re…

Jews in the News: David Simon, Maggie Gyllenhaal, James Franco

Third Generation Director

“Home Again,” a romantic comedy, opens on Friday, Sept. 7. It marks the directorial and screenwriting debut of HALLIE MEYERS-SHYER, 30. Hallie is the daughter of NANCY MEYERS, 67, and Meyers’ ex-husband, CHARLES SHYER, 65. Charles, whose late father, MELVILLE…