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Andrew Garfield gestures before "We Live in Time" is screened as the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) returns for its 49th edition in Toronto, Ontario, Canada September 6, 2024.

Spider-Man actor Andrew Garfield expresses support for Gazans

 THE NEW ‘Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital’ exhibit at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles.

Academy Museum opens permanent exhibition that shines spotlight on Hollywood's Jewish founders

 The new "Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital" exhibit at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles.

LA’s Academy Museum initially excluded Hollywood’s Jewish origins, a new exhibit fixes that

By Jacob Gurvis/JTA
 Larry David attends the "Curb Your Enthusiasm" Season 11 premiere at the Paramount Theatre in Los Angeles, Oct. 19, 2021.

Series finale of HBO’s ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ reunites Larry David-Jerry Seinfeld Jewish comedy duo

By BEN SALES/JTA
 BILLIE EILISH, Mark Ruffalo, Ramy Youssef, and others wore a pin of a red hand at the Oscars (left), failing to understand that the red hand is a symbol of the red hands of Aziz Salha after he killed two Jews in a lynching in Ramallah in 2000 (right.)

Hollywood is failing Jewish-Americans despite a history together

 Placards lie on the ground after Israeli Americans and supporters of Israel gather in solidarity with Israel and protest against antisemitism, on the National Mall in Washington, U.S, November 14, 2023.

Variety and Jewish Life Television to broadcast 'The State of Antisemitism'

By Brooke Sarah Borden
A view of the iconic Hollywood sign

Variety to hold Hollywood summit on antisemitism with the stars

By Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA
Brett Ratner

Disgraced Hollywood director Brett Ratner immigrates to Israel

By RON KAMPEAS/JTA
Homeless person on Jaffa Street in Jerusalem.

Poor and working-class Jews are underrepresented in pop culture, new analysis argues

By ANDREW LAPIN/JTA
 Gal Gadot poses on the pink carpet for the world premiere of the film "Barbie" in Los Angeles, California, U.S., July 9, 2023.

Israeli actress Gal Gadot to play Egyptian Queen Cleopatra in new film

 Cast member Arkin attends the premiere for the television series "The Kominsky Method" in Los Angeles.

Alan Arkin, Jewish actor with uncommon versatility, dies at 89

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL / JTA
 ANDIE MacDOWELL (second from left) with the cast of ‘My Happy Ending.’

‘My Happy Ending’ tells a story of life and death - review

 Steven Spielberg poses with the team from his movie The Fabelmans on the champagne-colored red carpet during the Oscars arrivals at the 95th Academy Awards in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, US, March 12, 2023.

Despite 'The Fabelman's' loss, Jewish representation alive at the Oscars

By ANDREW LAPIN/JTA
THE REFILM Festival offers movie-goers an unusual chance to see restored vintage reels of film classics.

How Jewish comedy found religion, from Philip Roth to 'Broad City'

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL / JTA
 THE DIRECTOR, Steven Spielberg, with his sisters (from left) Anne Spielberg, Sue Spielberg, and Nancy Spielberg.

Oscars 2023: Who are the Jewish nominees?

"MY NAME is Bond, James Bond’: Sean Connery in ‘Goldfinger.’

Is the next James Bond going to be Jewish?