101Israeli actor Chaim Topol, known for his iconic role of Tevye in the film "Fiddler on the Roof," led a double life as a secret operative for the Mossad, his family said. The Oscar-nominated actor, ...

Chaim Topol — an actor perhaps better known for the role he played, “Tevye” the milkman, in Fiddler on the Roof, died Thursday in Israel, age 87. As The New York Times’ obituary noted, some actors ...

Chaim Topol, the actor best known for playing Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof," has died, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced. He was 87. Chaim Topol, the actor best known for ...

Israeli actor Chaim Topol, best known for his role as Tevye in the film "Fiddler on the Roof," may have had an unexpected double life outside of acting. The actor, who passed away in March, used his ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Chaim Topol, a leading Israeli actor who charmed generations of theatergoers and movie-watchers with his portrayal of Tevye, the long-suffering and charismatic milkman in “Fiddler on ...

The family of late actor Chaim Topol has revealed that, between acting gigs, he regularly worked on reconnaissance missions for Mossad, the national intelligence agency of Israel. The news comes one ...

Sholem Aleichem’s Tevye stories revolutionized Yiddish literature in the late-19th century. Tevye the Dairyman, as the collection of these innovative stories would be titled, helped pave the way for ...

(RNS) — Ask any rabbi, and they will tell you that inadvertently omitting someone from a list of people who have died is a bad faux pas. That is what happened at the Academy Awards “in memoriam ...

If you were born anytime before, say, 1975, you might remember Israel not as a source of angst and tension among American Jews but as a cause for celebration. In the 1960s and ’70s, most Jews embraced ...

Ms. Wildman is a staff editor and writer in Opinion. A few years ago, I bought my father a T-shirt printed with the Yiddish words “Shver tsu zayn a yid” (“It’s hard to be a Jew”). The expression is ...

Chaim Topol, a leading Israeli actor who charmed generations of theatergoers and movie-watchers with his portrayal of Tevye, the long-suffering and charismatic milkman in “Fiddler on the Roof,” has ...