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Jewish proprietor of Grossinger’s Catskill Resort Hotel dies at 98

Etess, who died at her home in Florida, was the daughter of Jennie and Harry Grossinger, the couple who grew the resort from a small boarding house to a 35-building, 600-room luxury complex.

ELAINE GROSSINGER Etess (second from right) with son Mitchell Grossinger Etess (left) and great-grandchildren Ashley and Mark Etess, grandchildren of the late Mark Etess.
ETHAN HAWKE and Margaret Qualley star in Blue Moon, Richard Linklater’s drama about composer Lorenz Hart.

From Lorenz Hart to Mel Brooks: Two Jewish lives now available on Israeli screens

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.

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

MEL BROOKS speaks at an awards ceremony in 2015.

This week in Jewish history: Happy birthday to Mel Brooks, Franz Kafka


Protecting the elderly from coronavirus is a family affair for Mel Brooks

Max Brooks’ book, "World War Z," was recently in the headlines because many noticed parallels between how Israel handles the zombie invasion in the movie version and how it is dealing with the virus.

MEL BROOKS speaks at an awards ceremony in 2015.

Springtime for Taika Cohen and ‘Jojo Rabbit’

Not only is it all right to ridicule Nazis, but making fun of them can have a positive impact.

Adolf Hitler will be a prominent character in Jojo Rabbit, a satirical movie by Taika Waititi

Mel Brooks's biography is detailed but pedestrian

The making of The Producers is one of the most interesting parts of Funny Man, Patrick McGilligan’s highly detailed but disappointingly pedestrian new biography of Brooks.

MEL BROOKS speaks at an awards ceremony in 2015.

EPOS at 10 celebrates movies about art

Alan Yentob’s Mel Brooks: Unwrapped is a portrait of the beloved comic filmmaker (Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein) at 92.

‘TEA WITH the Dames.’

No laughing matter

Jeremy Dauber takes a ‘serious’ look at the long, colorful history of Jewish humor.

SHOLEM ALEICHEM at his desk in St. Petersburg in 1904

Mel Brooks slams today's 'stupidly politically correct' culture

"I personally would never touch gas chambers or the death of children or Jews at the hands of the Nazis," he said. "Everything else is okay."

Filmmaker and comedian Mel Brooks gestures as he places his footprints in cement, with a fake sixth finger attached to his left hand, in the forecourt of the TCL Chinese theatre in Hollywood, California September 8, 2014.