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• New Isla Fisher campaign promotes breastfeeding

  February 19, 2013 11:27am

  Isla Fisher, Sasha Baron Cohen’s better half, has joined Save the Children’s 95 Babies breastfeeding campaign, and traveled to Brazil to promote the campaign under her new role as ambassador, Marie Claire reports. Fisher, whose father has been involved with the organization for some 30 years, joins other stars such as Victoria Beckham, Myleene Klass, Donna Air, and…

• Sacha Baron Cohen is highest paid British actor in the US

  February 15, 2013 12:47pm

  We pay a lot of money for Sacha Baron Cohen to make us feel uncomfortable. The Jewish London native is officially the highest paid British actor in America, according to Forbes.com, and even tops Brad Pitt and Tom Hanks in breaking the Benjamins. Last year, Baron Cohen ranked in £20 million, thanks to his film, “The Dictator,”…

• Daniel Radcliffe’s circumcision won him new film role

  February 15, 2013 12:13pm

  Daniel Radcliffe, better known for sporting round glasses in the “Harry Potter” franchise, is the star of the new film, “Kill Your Darlings,” which just showed at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah. But his on-screen magical acting was not the key factor that helped him land the role of playing the American Jewish Poet Allen Ginsberg, but rather…

• Drake and Chris Brown filing suits against each other

  February 14, 2013 7:12pm

  Loathed rapper Chris Brown and Grammy-winning Drake are suing each other for a New York City club brawl that went down last year. The two rappers were reportedly arguing over Rihanna last July and bottles were thrown around, one which hit a french model named Romain Julien, who filed suits against both of them. Now,…

• Watch Mayim Bialik explain Blossom and neuroscience

  February 14, 2013 1:52pm

  The world of Blossom and neuroscience, as explained by Miayim Bialik.

• James Franco flies to Kimmel in a hot air balloon

  February 14, 2013 11:30am

  As a publicity stunt for his March film, “Oz, the Great and Powerful,” James Franco arrived to his interview on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” in a hot air balloon. Ugh. Does this bother anyone else?  

• Hamantaschen: a JTA tutorial

  February 13, 2013 6:20pm

  JTA provides a step-by-step tutorial on how to make hamantaschen, Purim’s traditional cookies.

• Bulletproof Stockings hit AOL

  February 13, 2013 5:38pm

  The women’s-only Chabad band, Bulletproof Stockings, were featured on AOL’s “You’ve Got” series, where they rocked out and explained why their religious adherence only allows them to perform for women. The Bulletproof Stockings’ story made headlines earlier last year, where they were written up in the Times of Israel, the New York Post, and the New Yorker….

• Italian dubstep singer refuses to play on Shabbat

  February 13, 2013 5:22pm

  Raiz, the lead singer of dubstep European band Almamegretta, is making headlines this week for refusing to play on Friday night after converting to Judaism. Almamegretta is set to play this Friday at the San Remo Song Festival, one of Italy’s most popular music events, but since Raiz, whose real name is Gennaro Della Volpe, is…

• Designer John Galliano again at center of Jewish controversy

  February 13, 2013 3:29pm

  A New York Post cover story skewered John Galliano for supposedly dressing in Chasidic garb for New York Fashion Week.