Nathan Burstein
By Nathan Burstein
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Israel News ‘Big Brother’ Draws Ratings, Protesters
The Israeli version of “Big Brother,” a reality show alternately beloved and reviled by Hebrew speakers, wrapped up on December 16 in exactly the manner in which it was broadcast all season: as a ratings juggernaut. Early estimates suggest that a record 39.2% of the country’s television audience tuned in on Tuesday evening to watch…
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News High-Tech Hanukkah
Hanukkah: candle lighting, chocolate gelt, dreidel games, latkes and — the Maccabbees probably didn’t see this one coming — eight nights of video podcasts. For the first time, Jews from around the world can gather online this Hanukkah at OurJewishCommunity.org, a new Web site billed by founders as “a full-service progressive Jewish congregation — on…
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Israel News World Premiere: Israeli Film to Screen at Sundance
Following an impressive year on the international film festival circuit, Israel’s movie industry will get off to a strong start in 2009 with a world premiere at January’s Sundance Film Festival. “Zion and His Brother,” a family drama set in Tel Aviv, has secured a highly coveted spot in the festival’s World Drama Cinematic Competition,…
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Israel News The Rosenbergs, With Strings Attached
Already immortalized in books, plays, movies and a lithograph by Picasso, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are now being depicted once more in New York — this time, as puppets. The Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater is staging “The Very Sad Story of Ethel & Julius, Lovers and Spyes, and About Their Untymelie End While Sitting in a…
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Israel News Eye on the Oscars: Holocaust Film Makes the Shortlist
Adocumentary about murdered Jewish poet and paratrooper Hannah Senesh has been shortlisted for an Oscar nomination. “Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh” is among 15 films still in contention for a best documentary nomination at next year’s Academy Awards, with the final five to be announced January 22. “Blessed Is…
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Israel News ‘Borat’ Composer’s Hanukkah CD
Borat’s brother has recorded a Hanukkah album. Erran Baron Cohen, brother of British comedian and “Borat” creator Sacha Baron Cohen, released his first holiday-themed collection, “Songs in the Key of Hanukkah,” on November 18, offering up original compositions as well as new, genre-fusing updates of classics, such as “Hanukkah oh Hanukkah” and “Ma’oz Tzur.” Recorded…
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Israel News Europe Gives a Nod to Israeli Films
Two Israeli movies have been nominated for major honors at next month’s European Film Awards. “Waltz With Bashir” and “Lemon Tree,” both co-productions with Germany and France, snagged a total of six nominations for the December 6 awards ceremony in Copenhagen, Denmark. “Bashir,” Ari Folman’s animated feature about the 1982 Lebanon War, will compete in…
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Israel News Mr. Darcy’s Israeli Makeover
Mr. Darcy, meet… Alona Sadeh. The Israeli cable provider Hot is venturing into BBC territory, adapting Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” but moving the action to 21st-century Israel. Planned as a six-part miniseries set for broadcast next summer, the drama will unfold in the Galilee rather than in rural England, with cars replacing carriages and…
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