Jewish actors

Jewish actor Noah Wyle wins second consecutive Emmy for 'The Pitt' Jewish character portrayal

The actor won Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for the HBO Max medical drama, which also won Outstanding Drama Series for the second year in a row.

Noah Wyle attends the 2026 HBO Max Emmy Afterparty at San Vicente Bungalows on September 14, 2026 in West Hollywood, California.
 Sandra Bernhard performs during The Golden Probes Awards Gala at Sony Hall on November 03, 2025 in New York City.

Sandra Bernhard joins cast of 'The White Lotus' for upcoming season

Actor Lizzy Caplan appears on an episode of PBS' "Finding Your Roots."

Jewish actor Lizzy Caplan discovers her family's unknown Holocaust story in 'Finding Your Roots'

MEL BROOKS and Judd Apatow attend the Los Angeles premiere of HBO Documentary Films' Mel Brooks: 99 Year Old Man! at Ted Mann Theater at the Academy Museum on January 20, 2026 in Los Angeles, California.

Judd Apatow grew up idolizing Mel Brooks. Now he’s telling Brooks’ story in an HBO documentary


Larry David and Bernie Sanders are cousins, naturally

Both men are Jewish, are around the same age (Sanders is 75, and David is coming up on 70), formed their distinctive accents growing up in Brooklyn — and the resemblance is clear.

Bernie Sanders and Larry David

Oscar-winning Jewish actor Martin Landau dead at 89

His long career had remarkable ups and downs.

Actor Martin Landau arrives for the European premiere of the film "Frankenweenie" at the Odeon Leicester Square in central London October 10, 2012.

Meet the Meyerowitzs: Hoffman, Stiller and Sandler seek highbrow laughs

The movie got plenty of laughs at the press screening and the first reviews were good.

"The Meyerowitz Stories"

Eight Jewish TV moms who are smashing stereotypes this Mother's Day

When it comes to television shows, too often Jewish moms have been depicted as a burden to their children.

Actress Becky Ann Baker attends the 5th Annual Critics' Choice Television Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on May 31, 2015 in Beverly Hills, California

Parashat Aharei Mot – Kedoshim: A proposal for a different culture

In our generation, after the “information revolution,” we face a tsunami of cultures, an abundance of lifestyles.

A man in Tel Aviv finding his own way to ‘organize reality.’

Center Field: Mayim Bialik -The making of a heroic feminist Zionist

May their examples be infectious and teach cowardly Jewish enablers to stand up for themselves.

 Actress Mayim Bialik arrives at the 21st Annual Critics' Choice Awards in Santa Monica, California January 17, 2016.

$3.5 million raised for Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation

Sharing the spotlight with Spielberg at Thursday night’s event were actor Harrison Ford; the evening’s honorees, filmmaker and entrepreneur George Lucas and comedian James Corden among others.

American film director and producer Steven Spielberg at the Righteous Among the Nations Award Ceremony in Washington, DC, in January

Books: Joke’s on us

Radio host Michael Krasny delves into the wealth of Jewish humor.

Theatrical mask

Kirk Douglas draws on his Jewish roots in comparing Trump with Hitler

“I’ve also lived through the horrors of a Great Depression and two World Wars, the second of which was started by a man who promised that he would restore his country it to its former greatness."

Actor Kirk Douglas poses during ceremonies unveiling international orchestral and operatic conductor Zubin Mehta on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California March 1, 2011.

Jewish transgender advocate and actress dies at 47

Alexis Arquette, the Jewish actress who raised awareness for the transgender community died at 47.

Siblings Alexis Arquette (L) and Rosanna Arquette pose for photographers as they arrive to attend the sixth annual American Film Institute Associates' Platinum Circle Award ceremony to honor members of the Arquette family in Los Angeles, California May 10, 2006.