The 2019 Golden Globe nominees were announced Monday morning, and the film “Marriage Story,” written and directed by Noah Baumbach, leads the pack with several nominations. Here are the other Jews and Jewish productions that were nominated: “Marriage Story” The movie is up for best drama film, and Baumbach also scored a nomination for best…
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How a Lebanese American upbringing helps Tony Shalhoub play Jewish on 'Mrs. Maisel'
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Film
Seth Rogen and father honored for contributions to Jewish and Yiddish culture
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Film
The Jewish mobsters of Scorsese's 'Irishman'
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TV
S.F. State scholar sinks her teeth into vampires and horror on Israeli TV
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Celebrity Jews
Annette Bening plays Dianne Feinstein; etc.
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Film
This once poor Portuguese Jewish community made a $1 million movie, now on Amazon
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Culture
Sacha Baron Cohen: social media is the ‘greatest propaganda machine in history’
Sacha Baron Cohen has made a career out of playing absurd comedic characters, from the dopey Brit Ali G to the Kazakh journalist Borat to the Israeli…
Celebrity Jews
Aly Raisman in 'Charlie's Angels'; Zoë Kravitz cast as Catwoman; etc.
Opening in theaters on Nov. 15 is “Charlie’s Angels,” which, of course, is based on the 1970s TV series and follows two previous Hollywood films about the…