Gabrielle Birkner
By Gabrielle Birkner
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Israel News Israeli Styles: From Tel Aviv to the World Wide Web
If a leisurely shopping spree in Israel down Tel Aviv’s bustling Dizengoff Street isn’t in the cards, a wide range of fashion-forward accessories, made in Israel by established and emerging designers, can now be purchased at coolil.com. The brainchild of Eran Shor, a New York-based Israeli marketing professional, Coolil — as in “Cool Israel” —…
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Life Zeroing in on Possible Madoff Co-Conspirators
Bernard Madoff, who is expected to plead guilty Thursday to running a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, may not be the only one to go to jail for the massive fraud that he allegedly masterminded. A piece by Lucinda Franks, posted Tuesday night on The Daily Beast, suggests that the feds are focusing their attention on some…
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Life Seinfeld Stars To Reunite in Primetime
Television viewers will get a fresh dose of that distinctly Seinfeldian brand of kvetching this fall, when the four series’ stars reunite in “a multiple-episode story arc” on the HBO series “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” Entertainment Weekly’s Hollywood Insider blog reports: The cameos will mark the first time that all four actors have appeared together in…
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Life Israeli Designs: From Tel Aviv Via the Web
If you can’t go shopping on Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff Street, Coolil (as in Cool Israel) may be the next best thing. The recently launched Web site features the wares of 10 Israeli jewelry and leather goods designers. There are tote bags by Efika, clutches by Daniella Lehavi, and etched silver and gold necklaces by Augusta….
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Life Arrest in Chandra Levy Case, Slain Intern’s Mother Quotes Bialik
Federal prosecutors Tuesday charged a Salvadoran laborer with the first-degree murder of Washington intern Chandra Levy. The 27-year-old Levy, whose romantic relationship with former Rep. Gary Condit effectively ended the congressman’s career, disappeared while jogging in 2001; her remains were found a year later in the city’s Rock Creek Park. A U.S. Attorney, Jeffrey Taylor,…
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Life Orszag and Cantor: Separated by Policy (and at Birth)?
Peter Orszag, the White House budget director, has been touting President Obama’s proposed 2010 budget as a plan that would set America on a path to economic recovery. Meanwhile, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) has been deriding the proposal as attempt to “redistribute wealth,” a plan that would create neither wealth nor jobs. So when it…
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Life What’s on Mayor Koch’s Tombstone
Some of the final words spoken by Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl before he was beheaded by Islamic terrorists in Pakistan — “My father is Jewish, my mother is Jewish, I am Jewish” — are inscribed on the tombstone of Mayor Edward Koch, who led New York City from 1978–1989. So too is the…
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Life And the Oscar Didn’t Go to ‘Bashir’
The Israeli film “Waltz With Bashir” — Ari Folman’s animated documentary about the 1982 Lebanon War — was favored to win the Oscar for best foreign language film. But it was beat out for the award Sunday by the Japanese contender “Departures,” about an unemployed classical musician who takes a job in a mortuary. And so…
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