Jewish actors

Jewish actor Lizzy Caplan discovers her family's unknown Holocaust story in 'Finding Your Roots'

In Tuesday’s episode of the PBS celebrity genealogy series “Finding Your Roots,” Caplan learns that one of her ancestors survived four camps - and that his wife and baby were murdered.

Actor Lizzy Caplan appears on an episode of PBS' "Finding Your Roots."
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

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


Leonard Nimoy, known as Spock on 'Star Trek,' dies at 83

Leonard Nimoy

Joan Peters: A eulogy to an inspiration

Former CBS news documentary producer and author Joan Peters passed away.

JOAN PETERS

At courts forum, Rivlin speaks out on public corruption

Rivlin's comments came hours after the disclosure of the country’s latest political corruption scandal.

PRESIDENT REUVEN RIVLIN speaks in the capital, December 2014.

People with special needs are a natural resource

Firstly, we must learn to listen to them – to their insights, life lessons and the ways they’ve learned to survive in this hard world.

A DOCTOR and a professor of rehabilitation help a man at a school of medicine

Sony chairman hits back at Obama, stands by company’s decision to pull film

A bewildered Hollywood decries studio move.

North Korea supreme leader Kim Jong-un

No laughing matter

Danish-born Muslim Omar Marzouk is one of diverse group of comedians coming to Jerusalem for the annual ‘Comedy for a Change’ conference.

Danish-born Muslim comic Omar Marzouk

Exclusive interview with Laura Silverman: The ‘comeback’ kid

Comedian Sarah Silverman and Rabbi Susan Silverman cast long shadows, but their sister Laura Silverman possesses the golden touch in the HBO hit ‘The Comeback.’

Silverman sisters – from left, Susan, Jodyne, Laura and Sarah with Abramowitz children and Yosef

Clinic cited for multiple failings in treatment of late comedian Joan Rivers

US government agency reports that New York outpatient clinic did not follow all the standard protocols during the throat procedures it conducted on star.

Comedian Joan Rivers

Huster dans la peau du père d’Anne Frank

Francis Frank ou Otto Huster ? Ou quand l’acteur et son personnage font corps

anne frank

Kabbalah blessing: Mila and Ashton's daughter welcomed with Jewish-themed ceremony

The Hollywood couple reportedly threw a party for their newborn daughter that included a Kabbalah blessing.

Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis