Nathan Burstein
By Nathan Burstein
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Israel News Mel Brooks’s ‘Nazis’ March On Berlin
A Berlin theater that once housed a special viewing box for Hitler is getting ready to mock the Nazi dictator with the first German staging of “The Producers.” The historic Admiralspalast Theater, where Hitler once watched “The Merry Widow” from a custom-built Fuhrerloge, will raise the curtain on the Mel Brooks comedy May 15. The…
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Israel News Filming a Masterpiece, in Five Days or Fewer
It will be a race to the editing room. Israeli filmmakers will face off next month to claim an honor given neither at the Oscars nor at the Golden Globes: the distinction of having made the best documentary in five days or fewer. Organizers of DocAviv, Tel Aviv’s annual documentary film festival, are currently accepting…
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Culture Turning His Lens on the ADL
Controversy isn’t new terrain for Yoav Shamir. And controversy is the likely response to “Defamation,” his new documentary focused on anti-Zionism, antisemitism and the Arab-Israeli conflict, among other lightning rods. The Anti-Defamation League and its director, Abraham Foxman, figure prominently in the film, as do “Holocaust Industry” author Norman Finkelstein and a group of Israeli…
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Israel News Gender Bender: Israel’s Next ‘Idol’ Judge
‘American Idol” and its Israeli counterpart have both added a female judge for their 2009 seasons, but there’s one major difference: The Israeli judge used to be a man. Transsexual pop star Dana International has joined the panel of experts for the seventh season of “Kochav Nolad” (“A Star Is Born”), the Israeli version of…
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Israel News ‘The Office’ Gets Israeli Makeover
Israeli TV viewers are getting their own branch of “The Office.” The country’s cable company Yes has signed a deal with BBC Worldwide to adapt the British hit, allowing for Hebrew-speaking actors to play versions of the characters originated by English comedian Ricky Gervais and his cast. The Yes series will make Israel the sixth…
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Life Israel’s ‘Most Beautiful’ Lawmakers
Israel is in constant political gridlock, but at least the country’s lawmakers are good-looking. So say readers of Spanish newspaper 20 Minutos. They ranked four Israeli politicians among the world’s 54 most beautiful in an online poll published this week. Current Knesset members Orli Levy, Ruhama Avraham Balila and Anastassia Michaeli were joined by former…
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Israel News ‘Slumdog’ in Israel
In a twist on the old maxim “Write Yiddish, cast British,” an Oscar-nominated director is thinking Palestinian, casting Indian. Freida Pinto, the female lead in “Slumdog Millionaire,” has arrived in Israel to film “Miral,” a drama in which the Mumbai native will play a Palestinian woman in the years after the Jewish state’s establishment. The…
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Israel News Kissing: Tongue in Cheek
A tongue-in-cheek cover song has earned an Israeli musician an invitation to a trendsetting gay awards show in the United States. Ivri Lider, one of Israel’s most popular musicians in the past decade, has been asked to perform at the New Now Next Awards, a ceremony broadcast annually in June by the Logo channel. Distributed…
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