Author: Jesse Orine

Among the star-studded Super Bowl ads that viewers saw during Sunday’s game was an awkward 30-second spot, filmed vertically on an iPhone, in which the rapper Ye talks about his new teeth and instructs the audience to go to Yeezy.com. As of the morning after the game, when they visited the site, shoppers could find […]

Two days after drawing attention for a string of antisemitic posts, the rapper and artist Ye says he has signed off X. Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, announced late Sunday that he was quitting the platform, owned by Elon Musk. Musk invited the artist back onto the platform after taking ownership of it more […]

The actor who played Rabbi Noah Roklov on Netflix’s hit interfaith romcom “Nobody Wants This” has taken home the Critics Choice Award for best actor in a comedy series. Adam Brody, who himself is Jewish, won the prize at an awards ceremony in Santa Monica, California, on Friday. The prize was presented by Rachel Brosnahan, […]

Is Donald Trump a fan of “The Golden Girls”? The famously progressive woman-of-a-certain-age sitcom pilloried him in 1992, so probably not. But it seems like there may have been a chance he was watching. The show contained a bit in 1987 about letting the Palestinians move to Greenland — foreshadowing two of Trump’s least expected […]

The novelist John Irving is famous for telling stories set in his native New England and in Austria, the site of a pivotal adventure in his young adulthood. Now, the two settings will collide in a new novel — one that focuses on a Jewish orphan from Vienna who winds up in Maine before making […]

When more than 100 million viewers tune into the Super Bowl on Sunday, they’ll see Snoop Dogg and Tom Brady go toe to toe in a 30-second spot, screaming in each other’s faces.  The commercial is the second annual Super Bowl ad produced by the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism, or FCAS, the nonprofit founded by […]

Like many Americans of my age, I was raised on Peter, Paul, and Mary’s music. “Puff The Magic Dragon,” “Leaving on a Jet Plane,” and “Lemon Tree” were as much a part of my childhood as Mr. Rogers and sugary breakfast cereals. As I got older, and more involved in the Jewish community, I learned […]