Jewish actors

Judd Apatow grew up idolizing Mel Brooks. Now he’s telling Brooks’ story in an HBO documentary

Mel Brooks: The 99-Year-Old Man!, a two-part HBO documentary debuting this week, is a career-spanning portrait of one of American comedy’s most influential figures.

MEL BROOKS and Judd Apatow attend the Los Angeles premiere of HBO Documentary Films' Mel Brooks: 99 Year Old Man! at Ted Mann Theater at the Academy Museum on January 20, 2026 in Los Angeles, California.
Noah Schnapp attends the "Stranger Things" Season 5 Event at Hangar 7 - Flughafen Tempelhof on November 18, 2025 in Berlin, Germany.

Stranger Things fans ignore anti-Israel activists' boycott call after stars sympathized with Israel

Jerry Adler attends SopranosCon 2019 at Meadowlands Exposition Center on November 23, 2019 in Secaucus, New Jersey.

Jewish actor Jerry Adler, 'Sopranos' star, dies at 96

 SCARLETT JOHANSSON as Black Widow in ‘Captain America: Civil War.’

Jewish actress Scarlett Johansson breaks Hollywood record, becomes highest grossing actor


Eight Jewish TV moms who are smashing stereotypes this Mother's Day

When it comes to television shows, too often Jewish moms have been depicted as a burden to their children.

Actress Becky Ann Baker attends the 5th Annual Critics' Choice Television Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on May 31, 2015 in Beverly Hills, California

Parashat Aharei Mot – Kedoshim: A proposal for a different culture

In our generation, after the “information revolution,” we face a tsunami of cultures, an abundance of lifestyles.

A man in Tel Aviv finding his own way to ‘organize reality.’

Center Field: Mayim Bialik -The making of a heroic feminist Zionist

May their examples be infectious and teach cowardly Jewish enablers to stand up for themselves.

 Actress Mayim Bialik arrives at the 21st Annual Critics' Choice Awards in Santa Monica, California January 17, 2016.

$3.5 million raised for Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation

Sharing the spotlight with Spielberg at Thursday night’s event were actor Harrison Ford; the evening’s honorees, filmmaker and entrepreneur George Lucas and comedian James Corden among others.

American film director and producer Steven Spielberg at the Righteous Among the Nations Award Ceremony in Washington, DC, in January

Books: Joke’s on us

Radio host Michael Krasny delves into the wealth of Jewish humor.

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Kirk Douglas draws on his Jewish roots in comparing Trump with Hitler

“I’ve also lived through the horrors of a Great Depression and two World Wars, the second of which was started by a man who promised that he would restore his country it to its former greatness."

Actor Kirk Douglas poses during ceremonies unveiling international orchestral and operatic conductor Zubin Mehta on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California March 1, 2011.

Jewish transgender advocate and actress dies at 47

Alexis Arquette, the Jewish actress who raised awareness for the transgender community died at 47.

Siblings Alexis Arquette (L) and Rosanna Arquette pose for photographers as they arrive to attend the sixth annual American Film Institute Associates' Platinum Circle Award ceremony to honor members of the Arquette family in Los Angeles, California May 10, 2006.

Holocaust denial film unveiled at Toronto International Film Festival

Rachel Weisz starts in 'Denial,' about American Jewish historian Deborah Lipstadt’s real-life legal battle with prominent Holocaust denier British historian David Irving in the 1990s.

Actress Rachel Weisz (L) and writer, historian Deborah Lipstadt at the 'Denial' premiere

Emmy nominations are out — these are the Jews we want to win

Here are 5 Jewish stars and shows we hope will take home a statuette in September.

Larry David as Senator Bernie Sanders during a “Saturday Night Live” sketch, March 12, 2016.

Amy Schumer Twitter joke insults Jews, Gossip Cop says

Gossip Cop, which says it polices Hollywood and celebrity news to separate what’s real from rumor, slammed the tweet.

Actress Amy Schumer poses during the CinemaCon Big Screen Achievement Awards at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas