Brian Fishbach

Los Angeles

Entertainment Reporter at Jewish Journal (Los Angeles)

Entertainment Reporter @JewishJournal 📰 Editor/Music Journalist 🎸 @RockMusic_Life Prev: U.S. Senate🇺🇸 Producer @TheTruthBarrel🎙 Researcher @LiveDieLApod🔍

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Articles

‘Parade’ Comes to Los Angeles

1 week ago | jewishjournal.com | Brian Fishbach

This week, the Tony Award-winning musical “Parade” comes to Los Angeles, and its title and subject matter land uncomfortably close to home. Starring Max Chernin as Leo Frank and Talia Suskauer as Lucille Frank, the show tells the true story of a Jewish man during the early 20th century in Georgia who is wrongfully accused of murder. The real-life injustices that unfolded against Leo Frank led directly to the creation of the Anti-Defamation League in 1913.
Israel Hits Iran Nuclear Facilities in Overnight Airstrikes

2 weeks ago | jewishjournal.com | Brian Fishbach

Israel launched a series of targeted airstrikes early Friday morning against military and nuclear facilities in Iran. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed the attack was aimed at halting Tehran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon and described the operation as a “preemptive and precise” strike. Iranian state media reports that Maj. Gen.
A Memoir for Fathers, Sons, and Anyone Trying to Break the Cycle

2 weeks ago | jewishjournal.com | Brian Fishbach

If you think you need to be a Trekkie to care about Adam Nimoy’s memoir “The Most Human,” you don’t. You also don’t need to be Jewish, sober or estranged from your father. Adam’s father was Leonard Nimoy. Yes, that Leonard Nimoy — Mister Spock to the millions of “Star Trek” fans. But in “The Most Human,” Adam describes his father, who passed away in 2015 at age 83, as a hard man to love, and even harder to get love from.
Simms/Mann Foundation Honors 40 Nurses at Museum of Tolerance

2 weeks ago | jewishjournal.com | Brian Fishbach

At the Museum of Tolerance’s Peltz Theater on May 28, 40 nurses from around the Los Angeles area were each honored with a $10,000 award. It was part of the Off the Chart initiative — an annual recognition created by the Simms/Mann Family Foundation to show appreciation for nurses. Since 2023, the Simms/Mann Family Foundation has honored 120 nurses from four major Los Angeles-area health systems: Cedars-Sinai, City of Hope, UCLA Health and Keck Medicine of USC.
Lowering Your Chemical Load - Without Losing Your Mind

4 weeks ago | jewishjournal.com | Brian Fishbach

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed walking through a drugstore aisle filled with cleaning supplies you don’t trust, shampoo you don’t understand, and unhealthy snacks you crave — but still buy — Dr. Aly Cohen understands. A triple board-certified physician in internal medicine, rheumatology and integrative medicine, Cohen has seen firsthand what happens when our modern lifestyle quietly overwhelms the immune system.
Feds Open Investigation Into Antisemitism Complaints at Cal Poly Humboldt

1 month ago | jewishjournal.com | Brian Fishbach

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) opened a formal investigation into allegations of antisemitic harassment at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt (Cal Poly Humboldt) on May 20. The probe follows a Title VI complaint filed in March by the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and Jewish on Campus.
Israel’s Yuval Raphael Finishes Second at Eurovision

1 month ago | jewishjournal.com | Brian Fishbach

Israeli singer Yuval Raphael placed second in the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest, held May 17 in Basel, Switzerland. Her song, “New Day Will Rise,” is an operatic pop ballad with a music video that references concertgoers fleeing the Hamas attacks on the Nova Music Festival. She herself survived the Oct. 7, 2023 festival massacre, where she hid in a bomb shelter for eight hours. Following her father’s advice over the phone, she played dead. Of the roughly 50 people in the shelter, only 11 survived.
Eurovision: Nova Survivor Yuval Raphael to Sing on International Stage

1 month ago | jewishjournal.com | Brian Fishbach

When the Eurovision Song contest finals take place on Saturday, May 17 in Basel, Switzerland, Israel’s contestant Yuval Raphael will take the stage with high hopes and intense scrutiny. It’s a moment that would have been unthinkable 19 months ago, when Raphael was nearly murdered on the darkest day in Israel’s modern history. Raphael, then age 22, attended the Nova Music Festival on Oct. 7, 2023.
Actor Ido Samuel on Playing Hungry in Hollywood

1 month ago | jewishjournal.com | Brian Fishbach

It was over 100 degrees in Fresno during the 2018 shoot for “Dirty Bomb,” a Holocaust film that takes place in the winter. Actor Ido Samuel, dressed as a prisoner at a concentration camp, had been sustaining himself on just one small salad per day for a week. The short film followed Jewish prisoners forced to build Nazi V-2 rockets in the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp. The production had no trailers, no air conditioning, and not much of a budget. Samuel didn’t care.
‘Liliana’ Documentary Tells the Story of Italy’s Only Holocaust Survivor Appointed ‘Senator for Life’

1 month ago | jewishjournal.com | Brian Fishbach

In Italy, the title “Senator for Life” is a rare honor, reserved for citizens whose contributions to the country are seen as extraordinary acts of public service. A new documentary gives audiences a totally different perspective on the term “Senator” from that in the United States, where the 100 Senators on Capitol Hill are often the source of cynicism, posturing, and squabbling. This distinction is the focus of the new documentary “Liliana,” directed by Italian Ruggero Gabbaí.