Joaquin Phoenix, Ilana Glazer and hundreds of Jewish celebrities and rabbis ‘say no to ethnic cleansing’ in Gaza in full-page NYT ad

Dozens of Jewish celebrities and artists, as well as hundreds of rabbis, took out a full-page ad in The New York Times Thursday to object to ethnic cleansing in Gaza. The ad is a response to President Donald Trump’s calls to permanently relocate the entire population of Gaza, a proposal he has doubled down on […]

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In AI video, Jewish celebrities from Scarlett Johansson to Adam Sandler give Kanye the middle finger

A video released on social media on Tuesday shows a wide array of Jewish celebrities, including Steven Spielberg and Woody Allen, wearing a T-shirt with a raised middle finger and the word “Kanye” — a rejection of the rapper Kanye West’s antisemitism. The video resembles any number of PSAs created by Jewish advocates, with one […]

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From ‘Coffee Talk’ to ‘The Hanukkah Song,’ 36 standout Jewish moments from 50 years of ‘Saturday Night Live’

Since its humble beginnings in 1975, when a Jewish writer and producer from Toronto named Lorne Michaels (born Abraham Lipowitz) launched a comedy variety series originally called “NBC’s Saturday Night,” “Saturday Night Live” has, of course, become a linchpin of comedy television. Over the course of its five decades of broadcasting from NBC’s Studio 8H, […]

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