• TV psychologist Joyce Brothers dies at 85

    By Jana Banin May 14, 2013 1:06pm

    Joyce Brothers, the Jewish psychologist who broke ground with her TV advice show, died of natural causes on Monday in New York. She was 85 years old. Brothers’ 1950s program helped normalize the public discussion of psychological issues, setting the stage for future media psychologists. She went on to become a syndicated columnist, author of… More ▸

  • Angelina Jolie, carrier of “Jewish” cancer gene, gets double mastectomy

    By Jana Banin May 14, 2013 10:57am

    Dead at the age of 56 after years of fighting breast cancer, Angelina Jolie’s mother never had the chance to meet five of Jolie’s six children. In an attempt to avoid a similar fate, in February the Oscar-winning actress underwent a preventive double mastectomy. “I have always told [my children] not to worry, but the truth… More ▸

  • Amy Winehouse: Portrait of the artist as a young woman

    May 14, 2013 10:30am

    The Jewish Museum in Camden is launching an exhibit about the late great Amy Winehouse this summer. If you’re not gonna be in London, though, let these pictures of a young, pre-tattoo Amy suffice.   More ▸

  • ‘Arrested Development’ season 4 arrives

    By Jana Banin May 13, 2013 2:08pm

    In less than two weeks the fourth season of “Arrested Development” premieres on Netflix. It’s been seven very long years since the last episode, but if this trailer is any indication, the Bluth family is still the most delightfully dysfunctional Jewish family to ever be portrayed on screen. Are George Micheal and Maeby actually hooking… More ▸

  • Barbara Walters retiring in 2014

    By Jana Banin May 13, 2013 9:57am

    After 37 years at ABC, Barbara Walters is calling it quits, the network announced Sunday evening. She will break the news herself today on her national daily morning show, “The View.” “It’s time,” Walters said. “I keep thinking of the line from ‘Cabaret.’ ‘When I go, I’m going like Chelsea.’ When I go there is… More ▸

  • Alison Brie on her very Jewish mother

    By Jana Banin May 9, 2013 11:12pm

    This week on his podcast, Jewish comedian Marc Maron chats with Alison Brie, who opens up about lots of stuff, including what it was like splitting her time between her divorced interfaith parents as a kid. On weekends with her dad she’d go to Sunday school at his Christian-Hindu hybrid church, where the future “Mad… More ▸

  • Sacha Baron Cohen finds writers for ‘The Lesbian’

    By Jana Banin May 9, 2013 11:02pm

    Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest project is one step closer to being made. Casper Christensen and Frank Hvam, the Danish writers behind the comedy “Klown,” are in negotiations to write “The Lesbian.” Cohen must have really loved “Klown,” because sources say he traveled all the way to Denmark to convince the pair to work with him…. More ▸

  • Natalie Portman takes Aleph to the JCC

    By Jana Banin May 9, 2013 5:33pm

    Today, when I drag two kids, a stroller, various backpacks and tote bags, water bottles, smooshy overripe bananas and Pirate’s Booty into my local Jewish Community Center for an afternoon of swimming and basketball, I will try not to feel as harried and disheveled as I know I appear.Instead, I will try to channel Natalie… More ▸