Hannah Rubin
By Hannah Rubin
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The Schmooze Shia LaBeouf Bares All in Music Video
Dancing to a slow electronic beat, Jewish actor and former Disney channel star Shia LaBeouf spends his latest film venture alternating between tighty-whities, ladies’ stockings, and his good ol’ birthday suit. Sigur Ros’s latest Icelandic pop ballad “Fiogur Piano” features the scantily clad LaBeouf, replete with pony-tail and beard, alongside ultra-blonde (ultra-shiksa) co-star Denna Thomsen….
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News Avodah and AJWS Will Close Popular Program
Two Jewish non-profits will soon close a popular social justice program aimed at Jews in their 20s and 30s. American Jewish World Service and Avodah announced on June 11th that they will discontinue their Pursue: Action for a Just World partnership at the end of 2012. The organizations said they are taking the move in…
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News Protesters Make Little Impact on Parade
Despite an aggressive and widely distributed campaign of protest emails, only a cluster of demonstrators showed up to oppose the New York Israel Day Parade’s inclusion of several dovish groups among those marching June 3. As they marched down Fifth Avenue, the targeted groups such as the New Israel Fund, B’Tselem USA and Partners for…
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News Politics and Music Mix After Parade
Politics and music mixed as easily as kosher hot dogs and Israeli flags on June 3 at the Celebrate Israel Concert in New York’s Central Park, an informal conservative-tinged afterparty to the annual parade down Fifth Ave. The entrance to Central Park’s Rumsey Playfield required passing through two security checkpoints (replete with a assault weapon-toting…
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News Collapsed Ceilings Lead to Big Mitzvah
Two collapsed ceilings led to one big mitzvah for a Brooklyn synagogue and a neighboring church. After its roof collapsed in 2009, Congregation Beth Elohim, located in Park Slope, temporarily moved its services to the Old First Reformed Church, down the block. Two years later, Rabbi Andy Bachman was nearly struck by chunks of plaster…
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