Category: Entertainment

Warner Bros’ WBD.O “Barbie” showed no signs of slowing down in its second weekend at the box office, and was set to haul in $93 million in ticket sales Friday through Sunday, according to estimates from media analytics firm Comscore. Director Greta Gerwig’s take on “Barbie” – the year’s No. 1 movie, and the highest-grossing […]

The atomic bomb has such a rich role in film history, we’re kind of surprised it doesn’t have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame yet. Christopher Nolan’s hit Oppenheimer adds one more compelling chapter to the tradition. And what a compelling and extensive tradition it is. By our count, nearly 150 feature films, […]

My mother, Sarah Belchetz-Swenson, was a master artist. Painter, printmaker, and portraitist, she constellated a rare combination of modern vision and Renaissance training. Like the Old Masters whom she studied, my mother watched nature, experimented with form and color, and had the stamina to learn how to bring ink, oils, and watercolor to the service […]

Ten measures of beauty descended to the world, and Jerusalem took nine of them. (Talmud, Kiddushin 49b). There is so much beauty and wonder in our eternal capital that strolling through the city is always a joy and invites new and fascinating adventures. This is true for residents of Jerusalem – who sometimes are the […]

Israel is located along the Syrian African fault, an area that has been vulnerable to volcanic activity and other geological events for millions of years. The sensitive fault line goes from north to south through the Jordan Valley and the Dead Sea. Israel’s small size means that it has been exposed to geological events throughout […]

We have been blessed with eight grandchildren from our two daughters and the cousins make up four pairs of roughly the same age. When they reached bar/bat mitzvah, we took them on trips abroad. The first pair, a boy and a girl, got to London to see the sights. The second pair, also a boy […]

Perhaps in 2043, Disney will make a top-notch movie based on its Haunted Mansion theme park ride. Powered by a typically engaging performance by its star, Eddie Murphy, 2003’s The Haunted Mansion performed pretty well at the box office, but it is a rather meandering affair. The second Haunted Mansion – in theaters this week, […]

Back in 1997, when he was marginally well-known as a member of the Ideological Front, an offshoot of the Kach Movement founded by Meir Kahane, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir bragged that he had succeeded in scaring the late Irish singer Sinead O’Connor away from performing at a benefit concert in Jerusalem. O’Connor, who had […]

Jewish fencer Eli Dershwitz made history Tuesday at the World Fencing Championships in Milan, Italy, where he became the first American man to win an individual title in sabre. The 27-year-old two-time Olympian and grandson of Holocaust survivors defeated No. 1-ranked Sandro Bazadze 15-6 in the sabre final. But Dershwitz’s semifinal victory was perhaps even […]

Award-winning Jewish actress, comedian, and writer Rachel Bloom, star and co-creator of the CW hit “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” will bring a one-woman musical comedy to an off-Broadway theater this fall for a four-week run. “Death, Let Me Do My Show,” written by and starring Bloom, will begin previews at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher St.) […]