As Passover begins, Noah Feldman, Harvard law professor, founding director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law, and the author of To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People (Macmillan, 2024), talks about his new book, inspired by his conversations with his children and even more relevant since 10/7, that tries to define what all Jews have in common.
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SPOILERS ahead for the HBO series Succession. Cox, 77, appeared on the latest edition of The Starting Line Podcast. Veteran actor played media mogul Logan Roy on the critically-acclaimed HBO drama from 2018 until its 2023 conclusion
Rarely has a show had as big of an impact on pop culture as RuPaul's Drag Race has had. Think about it, terms like "throwing shade" or "spill the tea" are commonplace on social media, from both people who watch Drag Race but also from people who don't. And when a reality competition show has that level of an impact on how we communicate, you know it's reach is far and wide. And now that the season 16 finale of Drag Race is upon us, another queen is about to start her reign and have her own...
Time marches on and all good things must come to an end. But don’t tell that to The Rolling Stones. What many believe to be the greatest rock ’n’ roll band in the world showed no signs of slowing down anytime soon as they kicked off their latest tour Sunday
What many believe to be the greatest rock ’n’ roll band in the world showed no signs of slowing down anytime soon as they kicked off their latest tour Sunday night at Houston’s NRG Stadium.
Hollywood will do anything to avoid paying a real human, actor, huh? Just kidding! We are all very happy for the success of Messi the dog, who was the breakout star in the Academy Award-winning French film Anatomy Of A Fall. According to IndieWire, the canine actor is capitalizing on his success with a new series called Messi: The Cannes Film Festival From A Dog’s Eye View. Messi, a.k.a. “the canine George Clooney,” as producer D18 Paris calls him, will host the series of eight episodes, each...
A banker took the witness stand in Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial on Friday and for CNN's Elie Honig it was a critical moment. "So the banker, the third witness, is the least sensational witness that we've heard from, but also in my view, the most important," he said Friday night on the network. "Because when people ask, 'Well, where's the crime?' it's really important to remember because we've just spent a week immersed in hush money payments and porn stars and payouts — the crime...
Before the days of First Take, Undisputed, or even 1st & 10, sports talk shows were few and far between. The arrival of Pardon the Interruption helped flip the script, at least at ESPN. But there was a show from the early 2000s that helped set a blueprint for the shows of today. In Chris
Patrick Warburton said the money he earnt voicing Joe Swanson on the popular cartoon helped support his parents
Tesla founder Musk visits China as competitors show off new electric vehicles at Beijing auto show