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Why Jellyfish Have Become Such A Sucky Problem For Israel
Securing Israel’s energy security is no easy feat. But engineers are now having to put up with a new threat to the nation’s power grid: the nomad jellyfish. The blue-tinted Rhopilema nomadica looks sort of like the lovechild of a mushroom and a very large plastic bag. The species made its first pilgrimage to the…
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Russ Solomon, Founder Of Tower Records, Dies At 92
Russ Solomon, the founder of Tower Records, passed away on March 4 at the age of 92. As The Sacramento Bee reports, Solomon died in between glasses of whisky: While watching the Oscars, his son Michael Solomon told the Bee, Solomon asked his wife to replenish his glass. According to the Bee, she returned with…
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Film & TV The Oscars Shaped My Feelings About Womanhood. Now What?
In 2016, my roommate and I became friends over movies: Trapped in our top-floor apartment by a weekend blizzard, we watched “The Princess Diaries” and “Cinderella,” two ambitious young women briefly surrendering to the fantasy of being princesses in a tower. The snow melted, and we went back to work, but the bond was sealed….
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Film & TV Louis B. Mayer Created The Oscars To Combat Hollywood Unions
The Academy Awards have long served as a platform for activists to voice their discontent to an audience of millions — even if the Academy’s board hasn’t always felt positively about such stunts. Ironically, however, according to a March 1 Hyperallergic article by Rooney Elmi, the awards have nefarious origins: They were apparently created by…
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Film & TV From Argentina, Insane Music, Unexpected Harmonies and Marxist Overtones
The opening of Alejo Moguillansky’s new film, “The Little Match Girl,” does the audience the unusual courtesy of setting forth a catalog of the attractions to come. “There is an orchestra playing some insane music. There is a donkey. There is a little girl named Cleo,” a narrator intones. “There are a lot of pianos….
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If The Parkland Shooting Made You More Hopeful, You’re Not Wrong
I never imagined I’d hear first lady Melania Trump channel Norman Lear. On the other hand, I never imagined I’d hear “first lady Melania Trump,” so clearly anything is possible. Even the resurgence of American democracy! Let me tell you how I can talk myself into that. Feeling that nothing is possible – Groundhog Days…
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Is Nato Green The Funniest Union Organizer In America (Or Cuba)?
Nato Green is a Jewish union organizer from San Francisco — currently living in Cuba — who also happens to be one of the Bay Area’s most successful stand-up comics. He’s toured with Hari Kondalobu, Janine Brito and CNN’s W. Kamau Bell. He’s been voted best comic in the city, written for FX and he…
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Music Jerusalem Concert Of Jewish Music From The Holocaust Will Honor 70th Anniversary Of Israel’s Founding
As part of the roster of celebrations planned in honor of the 70th anniversary of the founding of Israel, Jerusalem will in April play host to a concert of music written directly before and during the Holocaust. The concert by Israel’s Ashod Symphony Orchestra will mark the first time that several of those works will…
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From Bais Yaakov To The Bench — Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt In Conversation With Judge Ruchie Freier
Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt, life editor of the Forward will be appearing in conversation with Judge Ruchie Freier of the New York City Criminal Court at Young Israel of Jamaica Estates on Sunday March 18. Click to enlarge flier. Judge Rachel “Ruchie” Freier, is the first Hasidic Jewish woman to be elected as a civil court judge…
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Film & TV Remembering Lewis Gilbert, Who Directed Bond Films, “Alfie,” “Educating Rita”
Lewis Gilbert, a beloved British film director whose oeuvre includes three James Bond films and “Alfie” (1966), which made Michael Caine a star, has died at 97, according to his son, John Gilbert, quoted in The New York Times. Gilbert’s massive filmography includes rousing war pictures like “Sink the Bismarck!” (1960) and comedies like “The…
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The Mensch Behind ‘Batman’ Dies At 104
The Hollywood producer Benjamin Melniker, who died on February 26 at the age of 104, bought the screen rights to the DC Comics character Batman in 1979 and is credited as co-executive producer on every Batman film from Tim Burton’s 1989 effort to Batman Ninja (2018). His career proves that no comic book villains could…
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