Pop culture
Israel and Iran won’t be center stage at the 68th Grammys
Former Daily Show host Trevor Noah will host the show, and the performers and presenters are expected to include Doechii, Harry Styles, Carole King, Chappell Roan, Charli xcx, and Sabrina Carpenter.
Taylor Swift leads charts as Israel's favorite artist, album, song of 2025
Tiferet Sigala, Yarden Cohen: Giving space, community for Jerusalem’s teen geeks
Lorde to join 'no music for genocide' anti-Israel boycott
The top Jewish pop culture stories from 2021
Below, you can find the greatest hits of JTA’s 2021 Jewish pop-culture coverage.
Alana Haim makes acting debut in star-studded Paul Thomas Anderson film
The coming-of-age film stars the youngest Haim sister as a teenage actor in Los Angeles’ San Fernando valley — the exact location where the Haim family grew up.
Britney Spears wants out. What happens next in her conservatorship?
Legal experts say that wanting out of a court-appointed conservatorship is easier said than done. Spears, now 39, will have to convice the judge that she is capable of managing her personal affairs.
Israeli comics geeks to assemble for post-COVID in-person convention
Comics-Con will arrive in Israel for the first time ever, taking place on July 9 at the Petah Tikva Museum of Art.
Australian music industry giant Michael Gudinski dies at 68
The son of Russian-Jewish parents who immigrated to Australia in 1948, Gudinski started Mushroom Records in 1972 at age 20.
The Jewish muscleman who likely inspired the creators of Superman
A popular Yiddish saying went, “If a thousand Breitbarts were to arise among the Jews, the Jewish people would cease being persecuted.”
Ari Gold, yeshiva student-turned-pop star and LGBTQ icon, dies at 47
Gold released seven albums, worked with homeless gay youth and worked to raise awareness about AIDS. While no longer Orthodox, he stayed connected to his Jewish identity.
Peter Gabriel cites Israeli 'racism' as one reason for re-recording 'Biko'
“Although the white minority government has gone in South Africa, the racism around the world that apartheid represented has not ,” he told Rolling Stone.
Evan Rachel Wood Alleges Marilyn Manson Abused Her
"The name of my abuser is Brian Warner, also known to the world as Marilyn Manson. He started grooming me when I was a teenager and horrifically abused me for years."
Phil Spector, famed producer, dies of COVID at 81
Jewish recording genius convicted of murder in 2003, spent final years in prison
