Famous jews

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.

18 notable Jews who died in 2025.
Odessa A'zion at A24's "Marty Supreme" New York Premiere on Dec. 16, 2025 in New York, New York.

Jewish actress Odessa A’zion pushes back after IDF T-shirt controversy: ‘Not a zio!’

PAUL SIMON performs onstage at the 2021 Global Citizen Live concert at Central Park in New York. ‘I find it hard to believe that your father, a professor of education, would have approved of your recent stance,’ the writer asserts.

Paul Simon shattered my dreams: Support for Barghouti is profoundly dissapointing - opinion

 (Illustrative) TURNING POINT USA executive director Charlie Kirk speaks at US President Donald Trump’s Inauguration Day ceremony at the Capital One Arena in Washington on January 20, 2025.

'A shining light for the American Jewish community': US Jewish leaders, groups grieve Charlie Kirk


The shmatte trade

Andrew Gross’s latest novel stars the rough-and-tumble Jewish gangsters of 1930s New York City.

THE 1930S in Manhattan were rife with corruption and mob influence.

Learning from a legend

Ariel Burger details his own journey and his experiences working for Elie Wiesel in a new memoir.

Elie Wiesel participates in a discussion on Capitol Hill in Washington, on March 2, 2015

Amy Schumer announces first pregnancy in Instagram post

The comedian took to social media to share the news with the world.

Amy Schumer

An ideal Jewish Polynesian royal husband

Life was beautiful, bountiful and placid.

Shipwreck

Marcel Marceau: Grappling with the past through silence

This extraordinary story began with Marceau’s participation in the French underground, when he helped smuggle persecuted Jewish children and forged identity cards.

Marcel Marceau

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Famed writer Philip Roth didn’t play nice

Good literature is supposed to rattle your cage. Roth’s fiction discomfited us, and for that reason he is worth celebrating.

Philip Roth

‘Big Bang Theory’ star Mayim Bialik gives keynote address at JCT gala

The 42-year-old Jewish actress, who plays neurobiologist Amy Farrah Fowler on the CBS primetime sitcom and is herself a neuroscientist, was also awarded the Yael Heroine of Israel Award.

Mayim Bialik of the hit sitcom 'Big Bang Theory'

Does a top NFL prospect want New York because it has more Jews?

Two ESPN radio shows suggested quarterback Josh Rosen would prefer New York because of its large Jewish community.

 UCLA Bruins quarterback Josh Rosen (3) throws a pass against the Texas A&M Aggies during a NCAA football game at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, September 3, 2017.

Albert Einstein’s violin sells for over $500,000

The violin went for over three times its estimated price.

Albert Einstein's violin is displayed at Bonhams auction house in New York, US, March 6, 2018