Malina Sarah Saval
By Malina Sarah Saval
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News Selling Israel With Sun, Fun and a Whiff of Sex …
“Make Jewish babies.” Well, that’s one way to cure jetlag. Shlomo “Momo” Lifschitz, the hard-charging president of Oranim Educational Initiatives — today’s frontrunner in Jewish educational travel from Petach Tivah to Prague — assumed a despotic stance this past May before some 200 bleary-eyed Birthright Israel participants, gathered inside one air-conditioned Jerusalem conference room. The…
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News Tapping Into Her Inner J.A.P.
Talk about embracing the problems. The latest thing to come to Los Angeles is “Coke-free J.A.P.,” a one-woman show in which 31-year-old writer and actress Fielding (née Elizabeth) Edlow brings to life a potty-mouthed, newly sober, cocaine-craving self-described Jewish American princess. The character, Sage Saperstein, is a 22-year-old J.A.P. She is also, by her own…
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News Hy and Mighty, He Knows No Boundaries
Jay-Z, 50 Cent and now — joining the pantheon of nicknamed musical wonders — there’s MC Hy. Though Hyim Jacob Ross is happy to be known by his full moniker, clearly he has taken on some of the characteristics of the hip-hop world. But, don’t call him a Jewish hip-hop artist. Though he collaborates with…
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Culture A ‘Screen Test’ as Teacher To the Hollywood Crowd
God knows how I became a teacher. At 29, I’d spent most of my post-Cornell years working on a writing career. First came my stellar screenwriting stint, the highlights of which included one “Winnie the Pooh” special (I put Eeyore on Prozac), two shelved studio comedies and, I’m sorry to say, one of those tawdry…
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