Eleanor Goldberg
By Eleanor Goldberg
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Israel News Take the Train to the Pogo Stick…
Since April 19, 26-year-old filmmaker Boaz Frankel has been traveling across the United States, equipped with all the road-trip essentials — iPhone, camera, backpack and a list of contacts. All the essentials, that is, except for one: a car. Frankel is videotaping, Tweeting and blogging each moment of his “Un-Road Trip,” as a way to…
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Israel News A Cohen by Any Other Faith…
It seems that a person no longer needs to be a direct descendant of Aaron in order to be called Cohen. According to the Social Security Administration’s official list of popular baby names (note: first, not surname), Cohen rose to slot 393 in 2008, when 761 boys were given the name, up from 650 in…
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Israel News Lainie Kazan’s ‘Oy Vey’ Moment
Evegny Afineevsky’s forthcoming film, “Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay!” may tell the story of a mother and father’s struggle to accept that their son will never marry a nice Jewish girl, but the Israeli-born director insists that the movie is neither gay nor Jewish. “It’s about the clash of generations, and parents trying to…
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Film & TV Lainie Kazan’s ‘Oy Vey’ Moment
Filmmaker Evgeny Afineevsky’s “Oy Vey, My Son Is Gay,” slated to be released this fall, offers the exact story line that the title suggests: overbearing Jewish mother from Long Island (Lainie Kazan) hurls eligible Jewish bachelorettes at her nice, but (no-so-secretly) gay son, Nelson (John Lloyd Young). But Nelson is already in a relationship — with…
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Israel News Israel’s ‘Kosher’ Swine Flu
Just in case you were worried that a terrible virus linked to pigs would whet people’s appetite for pork, Israel’s deputy health minister has renamed the swine flu. He’s calling it the Mexico flu. Yakov Litzman announced the name change at a news conference April 27, after an Israeli was diagnosed with the disease at…
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Israel News ‘American Idol’ Star’s Biblical Role
Panned for breaking nearly every theatrical commandment by, uh, everyone, the 2004 musical production “The Ten Commandments,” starring Val Kilmer and performed in Los Angeles, was tucked away where all bad performances go quietly to die: YouTube. Until now. Showering attention on “American Idol” frontrunner Adam Lambert, entertainment Web sites have recently uncovered some potentially…
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Life About That ‘Gossip Girl’ Seder
Just because the CW network hit “Gossip Girl” took a two-week break at the beginning of the month, producers were not willing to pass over the opportunity to invite its gorgeous cast to partake in a scandal-ridden Seder. Even though Cyrus (Wallace Shawn) sported a “Schmutz Happens” apron, Elijah’s seat got taken over by dinner-crashers…
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Life A Public School Lesson in Bat Mitzvah Etiquette
The faculty at Scarsdale Middle School launched a $10,000 “empathy program,” to teach students how to be nicer to one another, after witnessing a rise in several alienating acts: name-calling, gossip, cafeteria cliques and the wearing of personalized bar-mitzvah gear, according to an article in Sunday’s New York Times. As part of the program, students…
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