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'Made California a better place': Rob Reiner, Jewish-American actor, director dead at 78

Like the greatest American-Jewish funnymen, Reiner used humor to make light of situations that could have been dark and depressing.

ROB REINER (left) with Christoper Guest in This is Spinal Tap (1984), the first "mockumentary."
Rob Reiner attends the Los Angeles Premiere of ''Spinal Tap II: The End Continues'' at The Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles, California, US, September 9, 2025.

Jewish director Rob Reiner, wife found dead in apartment, police probe apparent homicide

 German Chancellor Friedrich Merz speaks during an industrial sector association BDI event in Berlin, Germany, June 23, 2025.

Germany sees reality: Why a Palestinian state is no longer realistic - opinion

Ahmed al-Ahmad.

If there is a Jewish Nobel for saving Jews, Ahmed al-Ahmed just won it - comment


Menorah of spears and the deeper meaning of Hanukkah- opinion

The Maccabees may have lit Hanukkah’s first menorah using spears left by fleeing soldiers, transforming instruments of harm into a beacon of faith.

Maccabee cartoon 521

Writing for love’s sake: The poetic world of Gad Kaynar-Kissinger - interview

Gad Kaynar-Kissinger channels his childhood wounds, Jewish-German ancestry into poetry that provokes and reveals.

Kaynar-Kissinger and his fellow actor brother, Doron, (L) put on a Holocaust-related stage production in Germany.

'Jewish Roots of American Liberty': Explaining the Jewish connection to the American story - review

Jewish Roots of American Liberty explains and illuminates the tight historical, political, and cultural connection between the US and the Jewish people.

Earliest authenticated portrait of George Washington, wearing his colonel’s uniform of the Virginia Regiment from the French and Indian War.

‘Under siege’: Creators describe rising antisemitism in Hollywood

Jewish creators behind Mad Men and The Americans describe the growing antisemitism that young artists face.

‘Mad Men’ creator Matthew Weiner at Jerusalem Sessions on Monday.

Conditional Aliyah: Jews are ready - Israel much less so

With Jewish safe spaces shrinking and synagogues politicized, Israel faces rising immigration but lacks a real plan. Ofer Petersburg urges action before the gates open.

A group makes aliyah

Israel’s Supreme Court blocks automatic citizenship for non-Jewish children of immigrants

The 6-1 decision by the Supreme Court overturns a precedent set only months earlier, and restores the Interior Ministry’s longstanding interpretation of the law.

Supreme Court justices preside over a hearing at the High Court of Justice in Jerusalem, December 1, 2025

'A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig': A Hebrew, Talmud, rabbinic expert goes ‘whole hog’

At the beginning of the Second Temple period, in the Persian era of the 4th to 5th centuries BCE, pigs did not have a unique status; other animals were viewed as equally non-kosher.

Wild boars cross a road in a residential area after the government ordered residents to stay home to fight the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Haifa, northern Israel April 16, 2020.

Huckabee praises Jewish-Christian partnership at Knesset Day of Prayer

The Knesset hosted a Day of Prayer affirming the Jewish-Christian alliance. Ambassador Huckabee warned this "wonderful partnership" is currently "under threat, the likes of which it has never been."

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, MK Tatiana Mazarsky, and Aliyah Return Center cofounder Chaim Malespin attend the Knesset Day of Prayer in Jerusalem, Nov. 26, 2025.

In Galveston, descendants of a forgotten Jewish migration keep their community’s story alive

Galveston's Jewish community, led by Rabbi Henry Cohen, helped 10,000 immigrants find new homes after fleeing Russian pogroms and East Coast overcrowding.

Shelley Nussenblatt Kessler, a descendant of Jewish immigrants who came to America as part of the Galveston Movement in the early 20th century, sits in Galveston, Texas, with a biography of the city's famous rabbi, Henry Cohen.

Boston’s unfinished Holocaust museum hoists boxcar into exhibit space overlooking Boston Common

A historic 12-ton railcar is crane-lifted into the museum's center, symbolizing the millions "who never returned" and lost freedoms.

A 173-foot tower crain hoists a 20th century 12-ton railcar into the upcoming Holocaust Museum Boston.

'It just makes perfect sense': Ira Green on Beersheba, sustainability, and World Zionist Village

WATCH NOW: JPost’s Corinne Baum in conversation with Ira Green about rebuilding Zionist dialogue and shaping a global educational hub.

Host Corinne Baum speaks to Ira Green, World Zionist Village CEO