Nathan Burstein
By Nathan Burstein
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Israel News Israeli-Inspired Show Finds U.S. Success
Turning to Israeli television for inspiration is looking like a smarter and smarter idea for American TV producers. On July 17, HBO, which earlier this year became the first channel in the United States to adapt a prime-time Israeli drama, was rewarded for its efforts with three Emmy nominations for “In Treatment,” a psychology-minded series…
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Israel News Israeli Actress on NBC
With Israeli entertainers popping up everywhere this year, from the Billboard Top 10 (singer Yael Naim) to the latest Adam Sandler movie (actor Ido Mosseri), it might have seemed like only a matter of time until one materialized on network television. And sure enough, the coming American season is set to mark the primetime breakthrough…
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Israel News Social Networking Online, in Hebrew
Finding Israeli friends on Facebook is about to get easier. The social networking Web site soon will allow users to search for each other in Hebrew — good news when you’re not sure whether to transliterate a friend’s name in the Roman alphabet as Roni or Rony, or as Avichai, Avihai or Avihay. Although the…
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Israel News After 43 Years, Israel Welcomes Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney is no longer a threat to Israeli youth. More than four decades after the Beatle and his famous band mates were told they couldn’t perform in Israel for fear that they would corrupt the country’s young people, the “Let It Be” singer has signed on for a September concert in either Tel Aviv…
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News Israeli Star Shines on the New York Stage
If Americans carry a national stereotype about Israelis, it probably revolves around images of a tough-talking, hummus-fed group of cynics. Tel Aviv-born actress Meital Dohan did little to disabuse American audiences of that notion during her weekly appearances two years ago on “Weeds,” the acerbic Showtime series in which she played Yael Hoffman, a rabbinical…
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News Turning The Page, Onstage: One Mother’s Tragedy Inspires Hope
One scene, as the director describes it, sounds almost like a regular feature of “The Late Show With David Letterman.” But the subtext of the scene, which offers audiences a Top 10 List of “things not to say at a shiva,” is sorrow rather than comedy, the anguish that followed the gruesome 2001 murders of…
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Israel News Israel, Through Madonna’s Lens
She’s busy promoting her first documentary and her seventh No. 1 album, but the world’s most famous kabbalah devotee already has her sights set on a new project: a documentary about the Arab-Israeli impasse. Pop diva Madonna told the British newspaper the Guardian last week that her film would focus on children and would provide…
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Israel News Trump Heiress Sets Sights on Holy Land
Donald Trump’s oldest daughter thinks Israel has a problem — specifically, that it should offer nicer accommodations in its commercial capital. “I think Tel Aviv deserves a true five-star hotel,” Ivanka Trump told the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot last week, speaking on the 17th floor of the city’s Hilton. The former model, now a tycoon-in-training,…
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