Steven Spielberg

This week in Jewish history: Jordan & Jerusalem, Tel Aviv & Egypt

A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars.

|BySTEVEN DRUCKER
NAZI TROOPS and students gather seized papers and books to burn, in the Opernplatz, Berlin, 1933.
‘NORTH BY NORTHWEST’ and ‘Carrie’ are among the films slated for the ReFILM: Restoration Film Festival at the Jerusalem Cinematheque.

ReFILM festival in Jerusalem to showcase gems of film in new line-up

The films showing in ReFILM are about such diverse aspects of Jewish life as the Israeli fishing industry in the 1950s, the urban development of Beersheba, and a Polish immigrant family’s integration

|ByHANNAH BROWN
‘DIANE VON FURSTENBERG: Woman in Charge’ on Disney+.

New documentaries on 3 Jewish icons and October 7 - what's on Israeli TV?

New documentaries airing in Israel will cover a number of Jewish icons, as well as the October 7 massacre.

|ByHANNAH BROWN
PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG attends the Megillah reading at the Theatron Hotel synagogue in Jerusalem.

Grapevine March 27, 2024: When the nose knows

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN

‘Cocaine Bear’ star Alden Ehrenreich got big break after Spielberg saw him at a bat mitvzah

Ehrenreich, now 33, made a scrappy home movie that he and other friends showed at the bat mitzvah ceremony in 2009.

FEBRUARY 25, 2023ByGABE FRIEDMAN/JTA
DIRECTOR STEVEN SPIELBERG waves to the audience after receiving the Honorary Golden Bear Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 73rd Berlinale International Film Festival, in Berlin, on Tuesday.

Steven Spielberg celebrated his Jewish identity at Berlinale tribute

Steven Spielberg spoke about Tikkun Olam while accepting the honorary Golden Bear award in Germany.

FEBRUARY 23, 2023ByHANNAH BROWN
DIRECTOR STEVEN SPIELBERG waves to the audience after receiving the Honorary Golden Bear Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 73rd Berlinale International Film Festival, in Berlin, on Tuesday.

Israeli, Jewish films take center stage at Berlinale film fest

The festival’s guest of honor, who will be awarded an honorary Golden Bear is the most celebrated Jewish director in the world, Steven Spielberg.

FEBRUARY 15, 2023ByHANNAH BROWN
HELEN MIRREN as Golda Meir in ‘Golda.’

Oscars 2023: Who are the Jewish nominees?

Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner and more Jewish names have been nominated for the 2023 Oscars.

JANUARY 24, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
THE DIRECTOR, Steven Spielberg, with his sisters (from left) Anne Spielberg, Sue Spielberg, and Nancy Spielberg.

Spielberg’s ‘The Fabelmans’ joins Israeli and international gems

Assessing the best movies of 2022

DECEMBER 31, 2022ByHANNAH BROWN
‘THE FABELMANS’

2022 was a big year for Jews in the arts, here’s what happened on screen and stage

Amid endless debates over who has the right to tell (and be cast in) Jewish stories, it was notable just how many of the biggest pop-culture events of the year fervently embraced Jewish identity.

DECEMBER 21, 2022ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA
"Armageddon Time," "Russian Doll," "The Rehearsal" and "Tár" were some of the cultural works of 2022 to deal with Jewish themes

'The Fabelmans': A look at US Jewry and the American Dream - opinion

The movie offers a disturbingly relevant exploration of one Jew’s response to the casual Jew-hatred that sporadically haunts America.

DECEMBER 14, 2022ByGIL TROY
DIRECTOR STEVEN Spielberg and cast member Michelle Williams attend a premiere for ‘The Fabelmans,’ during the AFI Fest in Los Angeles, last month.

Steven Spielberg to be given Honorary Golden Bear award at Berlinale

As part of the award ceremony at the Berlinale Palast, the festival’s central venue, Spielberg’s latest movie, The Fabelmans, will be shown

NOVEMBER 29, 2022ByHANNAH BROWN
STEVEN SPIELBERG

Spielberg's ‘The Fabelmans’ shows us the man behind the movies - film review

It won’t surprise anyone who has ever seen a Spielberg movie to know that what saved him – what elevated him – was both his love for movies and his talent for creating them.

NOVEMBER 26, 2022ByHANNAH BROWN
THE FABELMAN family in Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Fabelmans.’

Michelle Williams, who stars in ‘The Fabelmans,’ says she plans to raise her children Jewish

It turns out that Williams, who plays the Spielberg character’s mother, has a Jewish family of her own.

NOVEMBER 26, 2022ByPHILISSA CRAMER/JTA
Cast member Michelle Williams attends a premiere for the film "The Fabelmans" during the AFI Fest in Los Angeles, California, US, November 6, 2022.