Jordana Horn
By Jordana Horn
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News Dance the Night Away
Over the past few years, some congregations in New York City have put a new spin on the old song “Dancing in the Street” as they celebrate Simchat Torah, the annual completion and recommencement of the cycle of reading the Torah. The festival, which this year begins October 4 at sundown, is observed amid much…
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Israel News Actor ‘Hugs Out’ His Jewish Side
Actor Jeremy Piven sits up straight and smiles when asked how his Jewish upbringing influences his biggest roles — whether it be kinetic super-agent Ari Gold on HBO’s “Entourage,” or the more subdued super-agent Adam Fiedler in the new movie “Keeping Up With The Steins,” a good-hearted satire of materialistic excess in bar mitzvah celebrations….
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Culture Nice Jewish Boy Turns Bad, Gets Role
Sometimes the most creative acting gets done off-camera. Take Scott Cohen, whom big- and small-screen audiences will recognize from the television shows “Gilmore Girls” and “Law & Order: Trial by Jury,” the film “Kissing Jessica Stein” and, most famously, “The 10th Kingdom,” NBC’s seven-hour fantasy narrative in which he played the half-man, half-wolf lead. When…
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News Getting a Jump on Hebrew Through Deep Immersion
Every day at 12:30 p.m. in the Beth El Early Childhood Center in Voorhees, N.J., a total of eight children, all 3 and 4 years old , file into a room. They are all talking simultaneously, as children do, about the usual pressing kiddie topics: dinosaurs, lunch, the playground. What is unusual about their conversation?…
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Israel News What Goes ‘Around,’ Comes ‘Around’
Best-selling mystery writer Mary Higgins Clark may come to regret the title she gave to one of her latest novels. In a recently filed lawsuit, Israeli writer Dalia Gal is claiming that Higgins Clark lifted key plot elements from a screenplay that Gal had written, using them in her 29th novel, “The Second Time Around.”…
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Culture German Director Performs Penance Through Film
In the 1940s, German director Marc Rothemund’s grandmother pledged her allegiance to Hitler and to Nazi Germany. Sixty years later, in what might be seen as an act of penance, Rothemund is offering audiences the story of a German girl who took a very different path from the director’s own ancestor. And recognition has come…
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News After a Hiatus, Jewish Life Returns to West Philly
Synagogues used to be a common sight in the historically Jewish neighborhood of West Philadelphia. But when congregation Kol Tzedek opened its doors recently, it was the first time that a synagogue had operated in the neighborhood in more than a decade. West Philadelphia was once a stronghold. Jewish life flourished there until the 1960s,…
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Israel News Rockers Set for Israel Reunion
Matisyahu, the Hasidic reggae-rap breakout rock star, and O.A.R. (Of A Revolution), the popular island-vibe-jam band, will be playing New York City’s Madison Square Garden together January 14. But that’s not all they have in common. Matisyahu and three of O.A.R.’s five members — Marc Roberge, Benj Gershman and Chris Culos — are 20-somethings who…
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