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Underdog Yuri Foreman beat Daniel Santos by unanimous decision recently in Las Vegas to become the first Jewish Israeli world boxing champion. Foreman, who was born in Belarus and emigrated to Israel at age 10, moved to Brooklyn to pursue his boxing career, but

A Serious Man, the Coen Brothers’ most Jewy pic ever, held its U.S. premiere at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York last night, with an afterparty at the venerable Friars Club. [Trailer after the jump.] The screening launched the new Friars Club Comedy Film

If you’re craving a cupcake topped with whipped vanilla frosting the next time you’re in the Holy Land, you’re in luck.

A New York Times story about the American-style cupcake craze spreading across the Middle East mentioned three shops that recently

Jeremy Piven finally gave a bit more of his side of the fish story last night on David Letterman. [Video after the jump.]

Piven dropped out of a hit Broadway revival of David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow with Mad Men‘s Elisabeth Moss and multiple-time Tony

Pulitzer Prize-winner David Mamet will be writing and directing a new film about Anne Frank, to be released by Disney.

The film will draw on Frank’s original diaries, the famous Broadway play by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich and original material by

After the critical success of Funny Ha Ha and Mutual Appreciation, writer/director Andrew Bujalski‘s third film, Beeswax, (Trailer After the Jump) premiered at SXSW this spring. The New York Times praised the “mumblecore” film (a micro-budget indie with a

What’s Pope Benedict XVI got in common with Nirvana, Guns N’ Roses and Whitesnake? They all have albums on Geffen Records. Drawn from the archives of Vatican Radio, the Pope will appear on Alma Mater, singing “Regina Coeli” and other hymns, snippets of

The new documentary Unattached explores the predicament of aging 20-year-old single women in the Upper West Side’s Modern Orthodox community failing to find a match.  This “plague” is causing major anxiety in the community; the longer young people remain

(500) Days of Summer, an off-beat romantic comedy starring Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, was one of the biggest hits at Sundance this year, a trend that has actually continued into the real world for a change. This weekend it did the biggest business

Esther Klein was expecting a night of family fun with her grandkids when she borrowed Austin Powers on VHS from the Borough Park branch of The Brooklyn Public Library. Instead, the Brooklyn grandma was the victim of a diabolical scheme, that could have only been