Nathan Burstein
By Nathan Burstein
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News Holiday Reading
If the Jews ever spend another 40 years wandering the desert, running out of reading material shouldn’t be a problem. They can pass the time just looking through old Haggadot. The Haggadah “as we have it today was a text that took hundreds of years to coalesce,” Joshua Menachem Kulp reports in the introduction to…
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Israel News Helen Mirren’s Hebrew Lesson
Hollywood’s newest Mossad agent has arrived in Israel for filming. Oscar winner Helen Mirren landed near Tel Aviv on March 15 to shoot scenes for “The Debt,” an English-language remake of a 2007 Israeli thriller about a small team of Mossad operatives who capture and then accidentally release a Nazi war criminal in Berlin. Four…
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Israel News King David’s NBC Premiere
The lowest-rated TV network has found religion. Beginning March 15, NBC will look to another well-known underdog, the Bible’s King David, to give its floundering prime-time schedule a boost. “Kings,” loosely inspired by the Old Testament hero, will debut in a two-hour premiere aimed at closing the network’s gap with Sunday night rivals, including ABC’s…
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Israel News Miss Israel’s ‘Fast & Furious’ Debut
A former Miss Israel is ready to make her big-budget Hollywood debut. Gal Gadot, the 2004 winner of Israel’s top beauty pageant, will appear on film screens around the world next month in the fourth installment of “Fast & Furious,” one of the decade’s highest-grossing action series. In the new film, which opens in the…
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Israel News Israel’s TV Crime Family Returns For Round Two
Think “The Sopranos” or “The Godfather,” but with more hummus. Israel’s most feared TV crime family returned to the country’s HOT 3 channel this month, for a second season of extortion, intrigue and the occasional Jewish wedding. The premiere of “HaBorer” (“The Mediator”) picked up close to where the first season left off, finding its…
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Life U2: From ‘The Joshua Tree’ to ‘Cedars of Lebanon’
Two decades after releasing “The Joshua Tree,” U2 has turned its attention to “Cedars of Lebanon.” Mentioned in the books of Isaiah, Ezekiel and Psalms, among others, the trees are now also being referenced by the singer Bono, in the final song on U2’s latest album. The Irish band’s “No Line on the Horizon,” which…
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Israel News Israeli Flag Flies High in Lebanon, On Film
The Israeli flag fluttered briefly over southern Lebanon in mid-February, probably with Hezbollah’s permission. No, the Shi’ite group hasn’t come down with an unexpected case of Zionism. Instead, the Star of David was hoisted over Beaufort, a Crusader fortress in Lebanon’s southern region, as part of a film shoot, with Syrian actors also at the…
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Life James Bond Promotes Circumcision
James Bond wants to help more men get circumcised, and he’s gone to a part of the world where they’re into that sort of thing. Former 007 actor Roger Moore is in Israel this week, where he expects to raise $5,000 for efforts to circumcise more men as part of AIDS-prevention efforts in Swaziland. The…
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