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Meet The Man Behind @BernieThoughts
Scrolling through the parody twitter account @BernieThoughts is a little bit like having an intimate one-on-one exchange with Bernie Sanders. Only instead of him griping about the middle class and the 1%, he’s debating suspicious-looking vegetables, the uselessness of belts and the fact that Italy probably needs to stick to just three types of pasta….
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Film & TV From Natalie Portman, a Tale of Amos Oz’s Childhood
In his 2002 autobiographical novel, “A Tale of Love and Darkness,” the Israeli writer Amos Oz compares the process of remembering his childhood to the task of “trying to restore an ancient ruined building on the basis of seven or eight stones that are still left standing.” More than that: In his attempt to describe…
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Robert Klein Zips Through a Century of Jewish Show Tunes
From the sublime to the ridiculous, including many stops in between, “From Moses to Mostel: A History of the Jews (According to Musical Theatre),” given its world premiere at Town Hall on Saturday night and starring Robert Klein in a very Tevye-like role, succeeded in its simultaneous goals of recovering mostly forgotten or overlooked chestnuts…
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No Way
In a city of holiness and hell, in the land of Moloch, in an autumn spreading hatred like the latest fashion, hatred in which all fears float to the surface, all frustrations like backed-up sewage, there’s no way they won’t shoot the one who wants to murder, or the one they think wants to. Murder…
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The Secret Jewish History of the Academy Awards
As we all know, Jews control Hollywood, yeah, yeah, yeah, yadda, yadda, yadda. But that hasn’t stopped plenty of hosts and presenters at the Academy Awards over the years from poking fun at the notion, or from making the crowd and viewers uncomfortable with remarks bordering on the anti-Semitic. Fortunately, however, Mel Gibson hasn’t had…
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‘Yidlife Crisis’ Takes Off — With Assist From Mayim Bialik
Eli Batalion and Jamie Elman, the co-creators and stars of the online Yiddish-language sitcom “YidLife Crisis” have been on a roll in the past few months. The comedic duo was recently nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for best original digital media series and has taken their act on the road, performing a live version…
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‘Big Short’ Actor John Magaro Is Hiding in Plain Sight
John Magaro doesn’t usually celebrate his birthday. Despite the fact that he landed one of the lead roles in “The Big Short” playing Charlie Geller, a nerd with glasses who starts a hedge fund out of his garage in Colorado, he shies away from attention. On a recent Friday night though, still more than a…
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Forward Looking Back
1916 100 Years Ago New York City police detectives arrested one David Schiff, president of the Manhattan hat company Deutsch-Schiff, as well as his young cousin, Hyman Kuperstein of the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, on charges of setting fire to Schiff’s hat factory. Both are being held on $10,000 bail. Police say both Schiff and…
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7-Year-Old Boy Stumbles Onto 3,400-Year-Old Canaanite Relic
A seven-year-old boy on a trip with friends happened to move a rock while ambling around the Canaanite archaeological site of Tel Rehov in the Jordan Valley and found a beautifully preserved 3,400-year-old female figurine. Cleaning off the mud coating the clay sculpture, which is about the size of two adult fingers, Ori Greenhut found…
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Can a Revue of Jewish Show Tunes Save the World From Destruction?
Offstage, a production assistant unpacked plates of pickles and cold cuts from New York’s famed Katz’s Delicatessen. Onstage, a singer clad in sparkling, billowing pants and a bright pink hair bow adopted a cockney accent and belted out an unlikely Broadway rouser: “Who’s That Geezer Hitler?” On this Monday morning, holed up in a low-ceilinged…
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Cancellation of Israel Play Provokes Censorship Accusation
The National Coalition Against Censorship has sent out a letter criticizing the recent decision of the Michael-Ann Russell Jewish Community Center in Miami to cancel a production of Julia Pascal’s play “Crossing Jerusalem” in the middle of its run. The play follows an Israeli family during the second intifada in 2002, and was met with…
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