Emmy Award

If you've ever wondered what it feels like to be nominated for an Oscar, it's possible that you've already experienced the sensation. Jesse…

Even if your knowledge of archeology is limited to watching Harrison Ford’s derring-do exploits in the Raiders of the Lost Ark trilogy, you will have…

PRAGUE — A film about a Briton who organized mass evacuations of children to save them from being sent to their deaths in Nazi concentration camps…

The late W.C. Fields used to mercilessly pick on his sleepy hometown, most memorably quipping, “I once spent a year in Philadelphia. I think it was…

2010 was a banner year for both high art and low comedy in the Israeli movie industry. Israel got its third Oscar nomination in a row – for Scandar…

Israel’s Traffic Light, a series about the friendship and romantic relationships of three 30-something childhood friends, was rated the best comedy…

Israel's 'Traffic Light,' about the friendship and romantic relationships of three 30-something childhood friends, was rated the best comedy TV…

Israeli film has achieved a significant international presence in recent years. What's less well known is that many of the award-winning directors,…

In a recent episode of FlashForward, one of the main characters, Demetri, is kidnapped on his wedding day, unbeknownst to the guests, who are…

Local TV sitcom ‘Ramzor’ (Traffic Light) appears to have no red lights. Months after the hit Channel 2 series starring Adir Miller was picked up by…

NEW YORK — CNN fired news anchor Rick Sanchez on Friday, a day after he questioned whether Jews should be considered a minority and called the host…

To start with, it goes without saying that people are free to boycott whoever they wish. For many years now, I have chosen not to visit any country…

Liz Nord evidently likes a challenge. The 33-yearold San Francisco-born New York City-resident documentary filmmaker has come over here to make a…

For the first time ever, I have a friend standing as a putative member of Parliament in the forthcoming general election in Britain; not just an…

The first time I went to Israel, seven years ago, my present husband cried and my ex-mother-in-law (a Jewish atheist) informed me solemnly that she…

AMSTERDAM — A Holocaust survivor claims in a new book that Anne Frank distracted younger children from the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp by…

Israel, and world Jewry, lost one of its pioneer advocates last week with the passing of Arnold Forster, 97, a former leader of the Anti-Defamation…

It's all in the eyebrows. When I used to tell peopleI wrote about Israeli movies, their eyebrows would furrow downward,into an unmistakable…

'They say there are couples who finish each other's thoughts. We finish each other's edits," says David Cohen, who works with his wife Daria at their…

To an untrained eye, the endless cluster of Judaica stores, lining several major Jerusalem streets, is nothing more than crowded, old-fashioned…