Rob Kutner
By Rob Kutner
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Culture Iran on Verge of Creating Cinema Bomb
[ ![][2]][2] LOS ANGELES — It appears that years of unflagging effort, dire warnings and sanctions may all have been for naught. Hollywood insiders are warning that the Islamic Republic of Iran has acquired both the materials and technological wherewithal to launch a motion picture guaranteed to bomb catastrophically worldwide. High-ranking officials in the motion…
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Life A Lesson in Finding Your Funny Bone
Dear Bintel Brief, I aspire to be a comedy writer, but I am told that my work is just not funny enough. I have taken classes, watch comedy television and attend improv shows, and I can recite certain “Simpsons” episodes by heart. But something is missing. I know humor can be subtle, and that figuring…
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Life Help! I’m Losing Touch With My Nesting Friends
Dear Bintel Brief: I a single (and searching) woman in my early 30s. I have many cherished female friends, some of whom I’ve known for decades. Recently, it’s become increasingly difficult to stay in touch with many of my girlfriends because we’re at such different stages of our lives. While I’m out there JDating, I…
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Culture Israeli Rabbinate Declares Non-Orthodox Jews ‘Kosher — and Delicious’
Jerusalem — In a historic ruling, the Israeli rabbinate has finally decided to recognize Reform, Reconstructionist and Conservative Jews — as the perfect entree for Shabbat dinner. Israeli Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi Moshe Metzger issued the ruling yesterday. The Sephardic chief rabbi agreed with the declaration of Jewish edibility, adding only: “preferably stewed with dried fruits,…
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Life Breaking Up With My Hebrew School Carpool
Dear Bintel Brief: Last year and this, we had a Hebrew school carpool with another family — old friends of ours. This year, parents of a boy in the area offered to participate and, hoping to have to do the driving every third week instead of second, we all agreed. Problem is, their son is…
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Culture ADL Bestows Honor on Madoff
[ ![][2]][2] Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff was re-graced yesterday when the Anti-Defamation League awarded him the Inadvertently Good for the Jews prize for his work in “demolishing a centuries-old stereotype: that Jews are good with money.” In a lavish ceremony held near the breakfast nook of the Madoffs’ Upper East Side apartment — where Madoff…
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