When Mel Brooks was filming “The Producers,” he recalled an executive approaching him and saying, “The curly-haired guy—he’s funny looking. Fire him.” Brooks said he would fire the actor, but never ...

A few years ago, our tortoise, Hershel, escaped from our yard. A friend gave us Hershel when his son, whom Hershel belonged to, went off to college. We put Hershel in the yard with our other tortoise, ...

American actor Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka in the film “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory” in 1971. A documentary about the late comic genius, “Remembering Gene Wilder, ” will launch the Jewish Film ...

A moving live concert experience, intimate Q&As and films that make you laugh and cry are all on the lineup of the upcoming 11th annual Palm Springs Jewish Film Festival. The event runs March 9 ...

Joselin Linder at a signing event for her book, The Family Gene: A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance into a Hopeful Future. Sixteen-year-old Joselin Linder and her family had just arrived at home, ...

Modern Judaism, Vol. 39, No. 2 (May 2019), pp. 144-160 (17 pages) Yosef Carmel and Moshe Arenreich, “Establishing Judasim on the Basis of Genetic Tests,” Assia, Vol. 27, Nos. 1–2 (2017), pp. 57–64.

When American Eagle Outfitters launched its “Great Jeans, Great Genes” campaign this summer, it kicked off a fair amount of controversy. The ad, featuring actress Sydney Sweeney, playfully declared ...

“His style was a little bit different; he wasn’t a Borscht belt comedian, but he certainly learned from them,” director Ron Frank told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. (JTA) — When Mel Brooks was ...