Nathan Burstein
By Nathan Burstein
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Israel News Book of Genesis Gets 3-D Treatment
And on the trillionth day — give or take — Hollywood created 3-D. Tapping a trend that’s generated profits of biblical proportions, Paramount Pictures has begun development on “In the Beginning,” a special-effects showcase based on the story of creation. Adapted from the Book of Genesis, the film will be produced in 3-D, echoing the…
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Israel News An Award-Winning Roster for Writers Festival
Nearly two dozen best-selling and award-winning writers soon will be making their way to Israel. Such celebrated authors as Paul Auster, Simon Sebag Montefiore and Jamaica Kincaid will participate in Jerusalem’s second International Writers Festival, scheduled from May 2 to May 6. Set to feature more than 20 foreign authors, the festival line-up also includes…
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Israel News Political Wife Duped by Israeli Press
The wife of Israel’s own defense minister has been duped by a man in disguise. Nili Priel, wife of Ehud Barak, unwittingly opened their home to a stranger who had assumed a fake identity, leading to a pre-Purim flood of publicity. Ari Libsker, a reporter for the Israeli financial newspaper Calcalist, posed as a house-hunting…
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Israel News Blurring Drama And Real Life
A TV series about kidnapped soldiers has sparked debate in Israel, where the fate of a captured army soldier continues to dominate real-life headlines. “Kidnapped,” a weekly drama set to air on Israel’s Channel 2, has drawn both widespread interest and charges of insensitivity in the days before its March 6 premiere. Featuring a cast…
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Israel News Is Mike Nichols Related to Everyone?
On the celebrity family tree, a Jewish film director has been revealed as the missing link among Albert Einstein, Meryl Streep and TV’s Dr. Mehmet Oz. Mike Nichols, the Oscar-winning director of the 1967 film “The Graduate,” learns that he shares connections with a surprising set of “cousins” in “Faces of America,” a new PBS…
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Israel News The Werewolf’s Jewish Roots
The man credited with creating the modern werewolf sometimes thought of the monster as a Jew. “It reminds me a bit of myself,” Jewish screenwriter Curt Siodmak once said of the beast in his 1941 horror classic, “The Wolf Man,” which returns to the big screen February 12 in a remake. A refugee to Hollywood…
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Israel News An Israeli Competes for an ‘American Idol’ Title
She has the name of an Israeli, but the voice — maybe — of the next American Idol. Vered Benami, a 22-year-old raised in Tennessee, cleared the first round of Hollywood Week on Fox’s “American Idol” on February 9, even earning praise from Simon Cowell, the show’s famously sharp-tongued judge. A waitress now living in…
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Israel News A Survivor Does Hip Hop
An 85-year-old survivor of Auschwitz has adapted the sound of gangsta rappers and dance clubs. Esther Bejarano, one of the last living members of the Girls’ Orchestra of Auschwitz, has become an unlikely hip-hop artist in recent years, spreading a message of anti-racism across Germany. A pianist in her childhood who was sent to Auschwitz…
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