Ilana Teitelbaum
By Ilana Teitelbaum
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Israel News Broadway Hit Heads To Holy Land
This week, Tony Award-winning playwright and actress Sarah Jones will be in Jaffa, Israel, to perform selections from her one-woman Broadway hit “Bridge & Tunnel” at the Arab-Hebrew Theater. The performance is one of many star-studded events scheduled in honor of Israel’s 60th birthday. The trip holds significance for Jones’s artistic and personal odyssey. Her…
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Israel News Al Gore Wins Again
On February 12, it was announced that Al Gore will be awarded the prestigious Dan David Prize. The acceptance ceremony will be held May 19 in Tel Aviv, with Israeli President Shimon Peres in attendance. The Dan David Prize, named for the international businessman and philanthropist, awards three prizes annually of $1 million each for…
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Israel News Poet Laureate in Tel Aviv
This past week, two-time poet laureate Robert Hass visited Israel for the first time in his life. He jokes that he’s been fascinated with Israel ever since, as a child, he saw the movie “Exodus.” “I belong to the generation that grew up on Paul Newman and Sal Mineo,” he said. More seriously, Hass also…
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Israel News Bryan Adams Sings for Peace
Bryan Adams will be performing two peace concerts in the Middle East on October 18 — one in Jericho in the West Bank and one in Hayarkon Park in Tel Aviv. The Canadian-born singer, who became a household name following a series of hits in the 1980s and ’90s — including the pop classic “Summer…
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Israel News Israel Goes to Hollywood
In recent years, the steadily improving quality of Israeli film has been attracting attention overseas. The Israeli television series “In Treatment” has been adapted by HBO, and this past May, Israeli writers Etgar Keret and his wife, Shira Gefen, won the coveted Camera D’Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Yet according to Mickey Yerushalmy,…
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