Nathan Burstein
By Nathan Burstein
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Life Mel Gibson on Jimmy Kimmel: ‘Shalom to You’
Three years after his anti-Semitic outburst after being pulled over by police in Malibu, Mel Gibson emerged after the Oscars to receive a warm reception from a live television audience. The 1995 Oscar-winning director, who told police officers during a July 2006 drunken driving arrest that “Jews are responsible for all the wars in the…
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Israel News Israelis ‘Tour’ Iran, No Visas Necessary
Iran hasn’t issued many tourist visas to Israelis lately, but that isn’t stopping a group of Hebrew speakers from spending a weekend there — at least “virtually.” In a first-of-its-kind retreat, scheduled for late March, Israelis from a variety of backgrounds will gather for A Unique Weekend in Iran, billed by organizers as a “virtual…
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News Book Center Goes Digital
Long faced with extinction, Yiddish literature has been preserved for the digital age with a newly activated online archive. Since the beginning of February, more than 10,000 titles have been available for browsing, skimming and study via the National Yiddish Book Center, an Amherst, Mass., collection that includes more than one million volumes that have…
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Israel News Israeli Cover Girl’s SI Swimsuit Debut
Next month should be a memorable one for Esti Ginzburg. The Israeli model will turn 19, join the army and make her debut appearance in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. One of Israel’s rising stars on the international modeling scene, Ginzburg will become the second Israeli featured in Sports Illustrated’s famous photo spread, her Israeli…
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Israel News The Altalena Affair, on Film
A battle pitting Jews against Jews during the Israel War of Independence is the subject of a new historical drama that aired recently on Israeli television. “Altalena,” set during a cease-fire in the war, tells the real-life story of the titular ship — a vessel bringing contraband weapons and nearly 1,000 Jewish immigrants to the…
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Israel News Japanese Author Honored in Israel
Best-selling Japanese author Haruki Murakami is following in the footsteps of Simone de Beauvoir, Milan Kundera and Arthur Miller by accepting the most prestigious literary prize given to foreigners in Israel. On February 15, Murakami, who is behind such works as “Norwegian Wood,” “A Wild Sheep Chase” and “Kafka on the Shore,” will appear at…
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Israel News Lisa Kudrow’s Family Tree
The blondest of TV’s “Friends” is going to reveal her roots. Lisa Kudrow, who spent 10 seasons playing airhead guitarist/singer and massage therapist Phoebe Buffay on the hit NBC series, is taking a camera crew with her to Belarus to investigate her Jewish family background, the actress recently told Parade magazine. “It’s a historical documentary…
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Israel News What’s in a Name?
The United Kingdom’s largest insurance company is changing its English name to a Hebrew one. Sort of. Norwich Union, founded in 1797 to provide protection against highway robbery and rural fires, will officially be redubbed Aviva on June 1, giving the company a moniker shared by generations of Jewish women. A feminine form of “spring”…
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