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Jewish Icon Barbra Streisand Announces Production Has Begun on Her Multi-Part Documentary
Barbra Streisand. Photo: Vince Flores/startraksphoto.com via Reuters
Production has commenced on a documentary about legendary Jewish singer, actress, producer and director Barbra Streisand, she announced on Thursday.
“For years I’ve been thinking about the best way to share the vast amount of content I’ve been safely storing in my vault, much never seen or heard by the public. And today I’m delighted to finally share that we’re starting production on my official documentary,” Streisand wrote in an Instagram post.
The SAG Lifetime Achievement Award winner added that she is collaborating on the Sony Music project with director and fellow Oscar winner Frank Marshall and Oscar-winning producer Alex Gibney. Streisand is excited “to bring this very personal project to screens around the world,” she said.
“People have been talking about the need for the definitive documentary on Barbra Streisand for years. After a series of wonderful conversations and rigorous research, we are moving forward with Frank Marshall at the helm,” said Gibney. “I am delighted to produce this film on Barbra, a legendary singer, extraordinary actor, director, and political activist who inspires us all. Did I forget to mention that she’s a great storyteller who is funny as hell?”
Sony Music Vision announced that it is developing the “definitive multi-part documentary” in partnership with Columbia Records, Jigsaw Productions and the Kennedy/Marshall Company. The documentary will follow Streisand’s life starting from her upbringing in Brooklyn to her many career accomplishments, like her acclaimed breakout performance in “Funny Girl” on stage and then her Oscar win for that performance on film, but will also document her current life.
“The project will offer an intimate and comprehensive exploration of every facet of the iconic multi-hyphenate, who, in a career spanning six decades, has excelled in every area of entertainment,” according to Sony Music Vision.
The production team has also been granted one-of-a-kind access to Streisand’s ” treasure trove” of personal archival materials, including never-before-seen video, photographs, audio recordings and more. “We have been given unprecedented access to archival footage from decades of her groundbreaking career and intimate visibility to the trailblazing she continues to do in life today,” Marshall said. “Uncovering these remarkable moments illustrate why she has become an enduring icon to a global audience of all generations.”
Streisand became the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major motion picture with the 1983 film “Yentl.” A EGOT winner, she won her first Oscar at the age of 27 and has been nominated for a Grammy 46 times. In 2023 she was awarded the annual Genesis Prize, nicknamed the “Jewish Nobel” by TIME magazine, which recognizes individuals for their achievements and commitment to Jewish values. She was also awarded last year the Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Woman of Leadership Award, named after the late Jewish Supreme Court justice.
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US Envoy’s ‘Zionist’ Ring Sends Shockwaves on Social Media
Lebanon’s army chief Joseph Aoun walks after being elected as the country’s president at the parliament building in Beirut, Lebanon, Jan. 9, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
i24 News – A photo showing US President Donald Trump’s deputy Middle East envoy donning a ring embellished with the Star of David to a meeting with Lebanon’s leader triggered outrage in Arabic social and broadcast media.
As Morgan Ortagus, who is Jewish, shook hands with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, her Star of David ring was visible in the frame, sparking accusations such as her being “more Zionist than her predecessors.”
Her direct superior, Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff, is likewise Jewish-American, as is his predecessor Amos Hochstein, who was born in Jerusalem and served in the Israel Defense Forces.
Ortagus is the first senior Trump admin official to visit Lebanon amid the fragile ceasefire agreed by Israel and the Lebanon-based Shiite jihadists of Hezbollah.
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UK: Pro-Palestinian Activists Applied for a March Permit on Oct 7 as Massacre Was Ongoing
Supporters of Hizb ut-Tahrir at a pro-Hamas rally in London. Photo: Reuters/Martin Pope
i24 News – Anti-Israeli activists in Britain applied for a permit to stage a demonstration through London on the morning of October 7, 2023, as Gazan jihadists were rampaging through southern Israel and slaughtering civilians, the Daily Telegraph reported.
At 12:50 PM, as the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust was still ongoing, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) notified the Metropolitan Police that they intended to hold a rally the following week.
Reports and videos of the Hamas-led onslaught began appearing on social media, and Israeli and then international broadcast media, several hours earlier.
“The Met was contacted on Saturday Oct 7 at approximately 12.50pm via telephone call and informed of the intention to protest,” a police spokesman was quoted by the Telegraph as saying. “The Met committed this to our systems on the same day and are satisfied being contacted by telephone was a sufficient means in which to notify the MPS as the event was taking place seven days after notification.”
The group’s spokesperson defended the move, telling the Telegraph it was “clear” as early as Saturday noon that “the Israeli attacks on Gaza would be of an indiscriminate violence we had not witnessed before, and that 2.3 million people in Gaza – more than 50 percent of them children – were at severe risk.”
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Report: Egypt Says Trump’s Gaza Plan Cannot Be Implemented, Puts Forward Alternative
US President Donald Trump speaks at the White House, in Washington, DC, Feb. 3, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
i24 News – Egypt on Friday informed the US of the impossibility of implementing President Donald Trump’s plan to evacuate the people of Gaza and confirms that it has a vision of its own for rebuilding Gaza without displacing the Palestinians, the Saudi outlet Al-Hadath reported on Friday.
The US leader, meanwhile, said there was “no rush” to implement his controversial plan.
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