Nathan Burstein
By Nathan Burstein
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The Schmooze Temple Grandin: The Emmys’ Woman of the Hour
“Modern Family” and “Mad Men” may have come out the big winners, but prominently thrown into the mix at this year’s “Primetime Emmy Awards” was one of the country’s best-known defenders of kosher slaughter. Temple Grandin, the inspiration for the year’s top TV movie, earned her own enthusiastic applause during an onstage appearance at the…
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The Schmooze Aviv Geffen To Open For U2 in Greece
A former bad boy of Israeli rock is set to perform his first concert pro Bono. Aviv Geffen, one of Israel’s top-selling musicians, will open for the Irish megastar band U2 at its September 3 show in Greece, singing for an audience of up to 70,000 at the Olympic Stadium, in Athens. The performance marks…
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Food Pork Company Does Rosh Hashanah
It’s not just Jews who will avoid discussing business next month on Rosh Hashanah – this year, the country’s biggest pork producer will be doing the same. Smithfield Foods Inc., the Virginia-based makers of more than 50 pork and turkey products, announced last week that it has rescheduled its quarterly conference call partly because of…
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Israel News Oliver Stone Says ‘Sorry’
Maybe he’s not such an expert on natural born killers, after all. For the second time this year, filmmaker Oliver Stone has generated controversy with comments about Adolf Hitler, contending in London’s Sunday Times that the Nazi dictator needed to be viewed “in context.” The July 25 interview also quoted the “Platoon” and “Wall Street”…
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The Schmooze Oliver Stone ‘Sorry’ for Anti-Jewish Comments
Maybe he’s not such an expert on natural born killers, after all. For the second time this year, filmmaker Oliver Stone has generated controversy with comments about Adolf Hitler, contending in London’s Sunday Times that the Nazi dictator needed to be viewed “in context.” The July 25 interview also quoted the “Platoon” and “Wall Street”…
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Israel News Shimon Peres, The Musical
He survived wars and political defeats before winning a Nobel Prize and Israel’s presidency. Soon he’ll experience it all again — this time, from a seat at one of Tel Aviv’s top theaters. For his 87th birthday, Shimon Peres is being honored with a stage adaptation of his own life, a production featuring music taken…
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Israel News A Comedy of Biblical Proportions
Following in the footsteps of Mel Brooks and Monty Python, a top Israeli comedy troupe is turning its attention to the Bible. Heading to the big screen for its feature-film debut, the cast of the Israeli hit TV show “Eretz Nehederet” (“A Wonderful Country”) is taking on a story not widely known for its comic…
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Israel News Educators Caught Leaking Test Questions
It was criminal detectives who had to do the toughest problem solving on a recent math test for Israeli high school seniors. The Israel Police Fraud and Investigations Unit appeared May 30 to have cracked the case related to this year’s math bagrut, successfully determining the identity of those who leaked test material in the…
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