Famous jewish people

Actors, leaders, Holocaust survivors among 18 notable Jews who died in 2025

Despite its grief, the Jewish world also took time to celebrate the lives lived by a constellation of figures who made lasting contributions to film, architecture, politics, and Jewish scholarship.

|ByGRACE GILSON/JTA
18 notable Jews who died in 2025.
‘I DO tend to revolve in progressive and Modern Orthodox kinds of circles but the issue of Israel is a complicated one and likely will remain so.’

Jewish actress Mayim Bialik to no longer host Jeopardy!

In her latest post to the social media site, Bialik told her 5.1 million followers that she had been informed that she would no longer be hosting Jeopardy! but did not specify why.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A fan takes a photo of a Barbie doll at the world premiere of the film "Barbie" in Los Angeles, California, U.S., July 9, 2023

Is Barbie Jewish? The complex Jewish history of the doll, explained

Handler created Barbie in 1959, when many Jews were wrestling with the concept of assimilation.

|BySHIRA LI BARTOV/JTA
Jon Stewart speaks backstage a "Stand Up for Heroes" benefit show in New York City, Nov. 4, 2019.

Jon Stewart to receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor

The honor, given by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and awarded annually since 1998, has not been given to anyone for the past two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

|BySHIRA HANAU/JTA

Promises to keep

Holocaust fiction continues to attract readers, as we try to figure out how something like this could have ever happened.

APRIL 24, 2014ByMIRIAM KATES LOCK
A MEMORIAL at the Bergen- Belsen death camp. The book follows a survivor’s quest for revenge.

Great Jewish Minds series at Jewish Film Fest

They say great minds think alike, but great Jewish minds have unique ways of understanding the world.

DECEMBER 9, 2012ByHANNAH BROWN
Hannah Arendt: The Movie 370