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By Forward Staff
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Israel News SHORTCUTS
In Hollywood, Calif., the answer may just be that tonight isn’t so different from all other nights, after all. For the entertainment industry’s sizable Jewish contingent, Passover is as much an excuse for rambunctious partying and shameless deal-making as it is for solemn reflection on the Israelites’ emancipation. The hottest ticket in town — according…
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News Charity Eyeing Divestment From Firms With Iran Ties
When the Orlando Jewish community held a “Stop Iran Now” rally at the city’s Reform synagogue on March 14, the guest speaker was Brad Gordon, director of policy and government affairs of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. In addition to warning against Tehran’s nuclear ambitions and its terrorist prowess, Gordon noted that pension funds…
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Israel News Trials of a Hasidic Rapper
Music fans seem thrilled with Chabad-Lubavitch singing sensation Matisyahu; his new album, “Youth,” debuted at number four on the Billboard 200. Critics, on the other hand, are a tough bunch: Some complain that he’s not black, while others say he has betrayed his Jewish ideals. On the day after his album’s release, The New York…
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News Newsdesk March 10, 2006
L.A. Rabbi Resigns Rabbi Aron Tendler has resigned from the pulpit of Shaarey Zedek, an Orthodox synagogue in Valley Village, Calif., under a cloud of sexual allegations relating to his previous tenure at an Orthodox high school. The controversy makes Tendler, 51, the second member of his prominent rabbinic family to fall under scrutiny for…
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Israel News Not All of Grandpa’s Tales Were Tall
Al Lewis, famous for playing Grandpa on the 1960s television comedy “The Munsters,” certainly had the last laugh. When he died two weeks ago, newspapers across the country listed him as being 95 years old, but it turns out that the actor-turned-Green Party candidate was only 82. Lewis apparently spiked his age several decades ago…
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Israel News Forward Freelancer Tapped as Funniest
Forward contributor Catie Lazarus won the “Funniest Reporter on the Planet” contest last week. But it seems that at least one person who attended the competition, held at the New York comedy club The Laugh Factory, needs to lighten up. The New York Post’s famed gossip column, known as Page 6, quoted one of its…
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Israel News Show Me the Money
Emily Stern, daughter of shock jock Howard Stern, is threatening to sue The Jewish Theater of New York. Stern, who played pop star Madonna in “Kabbalah” — a satirical look at the celebrity fascination with Jewish mysticism — quit the show two weeks ago, after her father’s fanatical fans learned that she got naked in…
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Israel News Forward Freelancer Tapped as Funniest
Forward contributor Catie Lazarus won the “Funniest Reporter on the Planet” contest last week. But it seems that at least one person who attended the competition, held at the New York comedy club The Laugh Factory, needs to lighten up. The New York Post’s famed gossip column, known as Page 6, quoted one of its…
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