Spielberg vs Netflix: The Future of the Movie-Watching Experience
Filmmaker Steven Spielberg and video-streaming service Nexflix are at loggerheads over…
Milton Berle: Shining Comedic Star During the “Golden Age” of American TV
Milton Berle (July 12, 1908 – March 27, 2002) — known contemporaneously as “Uncle Miltie” and “Mr. Television” — was an enormously popular comedian and television host during the so-called Golden Age of American TV. From 1948 to 1955, he headlined the comedy-variety program Texaco Star Theater on NBC. (It was later renamed The Milton…
UPDATE: Israeli Beresheet Lunar Mission Ends in Crash-Landing on the Moon
The mission of the Israeli Beresheet lunar lander came to a disappointing end when the spacecraft, after entering orbit around our closest celestial neighbor, crash-landed on the surface of the Moon on April 12. Beresheet was built by private company SpaceIL and launched atop a SpaceX Falcon rocket. Its indirect journey to the Moon lasted…
Florence Phillips: At Age 87, She Was Named a CNN Hero of the Year for 2018
Tikkun olam is Hebrew for “repairing the world” and is a central principle of Judaism. Florence Phillips was born 87 years ago in New York, to parents who fled the Nazis. She experienced first-hand the difficulties her mother and father faced because they didn’t know the English language. Today, nearly nine decades later, her…
Louis D. Brandeis: First Jewish Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court
As an attorney, Louis D. Brandeis (November 13, 1856 – October 5, 1941) fought tirelessly on behalf of progressive causes and against public corruption, powerful corporations and business monopolies. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson nominated him for the U.S. Supreme Court — a nomination that anti-Semites and big-business interests strongly opposed. Once on the Supreme…
Yuval Harari: Renowned Deep Thinker on Humanity’s Past, Present and Future
Yuval Noah Harari, 43, is the Israeli author of the bestselling books Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind; Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow; and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. A tenured professor of history at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, Harari has become an internationally acclaimed thinker, lecturer and YouTube star. His insights are…
Lori Greiner: Entrepreneur, Inventor, Marketer and Television Personality
Lori Greiner (rhymes with “finer”) is a highly successful entrepreneur, inventor, marketer and television personality. She reportedly has invented more than 400 products and holds 120 patents. The 49-year-old Greiner is founder and president of her company For Your Eyes Only. Dubbed the “Queen of QVC,” she has had her own show on that shopping…
Isaac Asimov: Prolific Science Fiction Writer Who Greatly Influenced the Genre
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 — April 6, 1992) was an iconic science fiction writer who — along with authors Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke — had a major impact on the genre. Asimov also wrote popular science, mystery, fantasy and nonfiction books. He was prolific in the extreme, reportedly writing or editing…
The Coen Brothers: Acclaimed Film Writers, Directors and Producers
The Coen brothers — Joel (65) and Ethan (62) — are multi-talented filmmakers who often write, direct and produce their own movies. Highlights of their collaboration include Miller’s Crossing (1990), Barton Fink (1991), Fargo (1996), The Big Lebowski (1998), No Country for Old Men (2007), True Grit (2010) and Inside LLewyn Davis (2013). In addition,…
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