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Barbra Streisand’s brand-new duet with Bob Dylan is a whole lot different than you might think
Though Dylan and Streisand's voices may seem ill-suited to each other, the two complement each other gorgeously on 'The Very Thought of You'
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Film & TV ‘The Shape Of Water’ Is A Biblical Meditation On Transcendent Love
There’s an old joke: Two fish are swimming around in a fishbowl when one asks, “How’s the water?” “What the hell is water?” the other fish responds. In “The Shape Of Water,” Guillermo del Toro’s newest tour de force film, the lonely, mute Elisa (Sally Hawkins) is miserably acclimated to her everyday, mundane routine —…
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Music Look No Further: Your Ultimate Jewish Christmas Spotify Playlist Is Here!
Maybe you find yourself quietly humming along to Christmas songs, not wanting to attract attention to yourself out of a sense of embarrassment or guilt. Maybe you find yourself at this time of year overwhelmed or oppressed by the onslaught of overplayed Christmas ditties pretending to be “holiday songs.” Maybe you secretly love Christmas songs…
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Are Millennials Tomorrow’s Revolutionaries — Or Its Fascists?
Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials By Malcolm Harris Little Brown and Company, 272 pages $16.50 Are millennials more worthy of pity or contempt? Based on popular discourse, you might come to see this as the central controversy about that benighted generation. Their consumption habits and psychological hang-ups have been examined…
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Film & TV Safdie Brothers Sign On For Remake Of Buddy Cop Film ‘48 Hrs’
The announcements of most Hollywood remakes prompts groans and eye rolls. Yesterday, however, heralded news interesting enough to make one say, “OK. Let’s see where this goes.” The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that the directors of “Good Time,” brothers Ben and Josh Safdie, are set to remake Walter Hill’s 1982 buddy cop film “48…
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Movie News: Net Neutrality, Disney Buys Fox, And Nazism In ‘Star Wars’
This week has seen two potentially paradigmatic changes in the media landscape. The Walt Disney Company is set to purchase 21st Century Fox, continuing a spree in which it purchased both Marvel and Lucasfilms. The merger sets Disney up to join the ranks of a small number of companies, including Netflix, Apple, Amazon and Facebook,…
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2018 New York Jewish Film Festival Lineup: “The Dybbuk,” Amos Gitai
The lineup for the 27th Annual New York Jewish Film Festival will highlight a diversity of voices and films, hailing from the United States, Israel, and many other countries, and including new features, documentaries, and shorts, as well as restored classics. A collaboration between the Jewish Museum and the Film Society of the Lincoln Center,…
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Film & TV How A Homely Jewish Tailor’s Daughter Became Hollywood’s First Seductress
A century ago the world was in the throes of the Great War, women didn’t yet have the vote and the movie industry was in its infancy. Two Jewish refugees from the wine-growing Tokaji region of Hungary — Adoph Zukor and William Fox (born Fuchs) — were beginning to make their mark on the fledgling…
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How Jews And ‘Jee-ews’ Tell The Story Of Roy Moore — And A Polite Ugliness
This may be the first time in American history when intonation has become a political issue. Of course, 2017 has been a year so chock full of disturbing firsts that it might be hard to pay attention to an extra syllable uttered by a losing candidate’s wife, but in this case, a little bit of…
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Music Should James Levine’s Alleged Sexual Abuse Make Us Reconsider His Music?
By now, the question is familiar: How should those who distribute and consume art deal with the artistic legacy of someone accused of sexual harassment and assault? And next: How should that calculation change if that person created their art through collaboration with others, who are presumably innocent of their colleague’s alleged crimes? That question…
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Books Give The Gourmet Gift Of Chocolate Connoisseurship This Hanukkah
Chocolate lovers on your gift list will be delighted to take a deep dive into the delicious topic of Jews and chocolate, with the newly released 2nd edition of “On the Chocolate Trail: A Delicious Adventure Connecting Jews, Religions, History, Travel, Rituals and Recipes to the Magic of Cacao” (Jewish Lights Publishing, 2017). Written by…
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2018 Sapir Prize Shortlist Includes Novels By Shimon Adaf, Noa Yedlin
The shortlist for the 2018 Sapir Prize, often considered Israel’s top literary award, includes works by past winners Shimon Adaf and Noa Yedlin. Adaf’s novel “Mox Nox” won the award for works published in 2012, and Yedlin’s novel “House Arrest” won for those published the following year. Beyond Adaf, shortlisted for his book “Tolle Lege,”…
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