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Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham pose with the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature Film for "No Other Land" in the Oscars photo room at the 97th Academy Awards in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 2, 2025

‘No Other Land’ wins Best Documentary Oscar, director calls for hostages release

By HANNAH BROWN

Actress Michelle Trachtenberg arrives for the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington April 25, 2015.

Michelle Trachtenberg's Jewish family reportedly declines autopsy for religious reasons

By PHILISSA CRAMER

American actor Adam Scott arrives for the premiere of Sony's "Madame Web" in Los Angeles

Adam Scott’s surprising link to Judaism and role in 'Severance'

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

DANIEL POSNER, founder of Athletes for Israel, gives a speech before being honored with the Lion of Israel Award by Allison Josephs.

2nd Jewish Media Awards: A beautiful celebratory night honoring Jewish talent, values

By EVE GLOVER

GAL GADOT as Evil Queen in ‘Snow White.’

Gal Gadot celebrates daughter Alma’s Bat Mitzvah with family in Instagram post

By HANNAH BROWN

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

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

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

By KELLY HARTOG

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

By ANDREA SAMUELS

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

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

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

By HANNAH BROWN

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