Sara Rubin
By Sara Rubin
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Israel News From Raiderette To Aleph-Bet
We may be living in the age of the “extreme makeover,” but the trajectory of cheerleader-turned-rebbetzin Sandy Wolshin could give even the splashiest of today’s reality TV shows a run for their money. A few years ago, Wolshin was wearing hot pants and twirling pom-poms for football’s Los Angeles Raiders. In the years since, she…
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Israel News Planned Concert Provokes a Ruckus
The British synth-pop trio Depeche Mode may have achieved prominence with the 1981 single “Just Can’t Get Enough,” but a Tel Aviv concert by the band, planned for August 3 — which coincides this year with the fast day Tisha B’Av — has one member of the Knesset crying, “Too Much!” Nissan Slomiansky, a member…
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