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Vienna Event Misplaces the ‘Hatikvah’
Talk about “Hope”-less. Organizers of an international fencing competition outside Vienna claim to have misplaced a recording of Israel’s national anthem — nearly preventing the piece, “Hatikvah,” from sounding during an awards ceremony. In the end, the event’s Israeli winner, Daria Strelnikov, sang the anthem herself, aided by compatriot bronze medalist Alona Komarov and the…
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Costco Gets Into the Torah Business
A Seattle-based wholesale giant famed for its gargantuan 10-gallon tubs of mustard and 76-pound containers of detergent is about to start selling Jewish scripture. In late November, Costco plans to begin offering copies of “The Illustrated Torah,” a colorful and appropriately supersized rendering of the Old Testament, at select stores around the country. Weighing in…
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Sir Ian Knows What It?s Like
His years as a closeted gay man gave actor Ian McKellen an understanding, he says, of Jews who hid during the Holocaust. ?It was horrible living this secret life,? the two-time Oscar nominee says in the current issue of Details magazine. ?You could feel a little bit what it was like to be a Jew…
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Prestigious Award for Israeli Choreographer
Dancer, choreographer, innovator ? many words have been used to describe Ohad Naharin, artistic director of Israel?s premier modern dance group, the Batsheva Dance Company. But Dance Magazine, in its 2009 award, given at a ceremony November 9 in New York, simply called him the man who ?revolutionized international dance.? The award comes on the…
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MacFarlane?s Not-So-Funny Jew Joke
The animated sitcom ?Family Guy? isn?t exactly high art. The Sunday night, 30-minute program, which airs on the Fox television network, is filled with off-color jokes. Nonetheless, many fans were disappointed when the show?s creator, Seth MacFarlane, took things to a new extreme November 8 during a variety special titled ??Family Guy? Presents: Seth and…
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First Israeli NBA Player Scores Big
It’s been a slam dunk transition for the first Israeli in the National Basketball Association. First, Omri Casspi, a 21-year-old forward from central Israel, got off to a quick start for California’s Sacramento Kings on October 28 at his NBA debut, scoring 15 points and logging three rebounds during the team’s season opener — a…
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The Pitselech Are Reviving Yiddish
Oy gevalt, Yiddish is dying. It’s listed in the Encyclopedia of The World’s Endangered Languages, which means that an entire generation is at risk of not knowing such phrases as nosh, shmear, pitsel and shayna maidel. Indeed, where would we be as a people without some good bagels and shmear? Unless bubbes, zaidies and alter…
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Jon & Shmuley Plus Another Media Circus
Reality star Jon Gosselin, who has been plagued by a storm of ugly tabloid rumors, has been seeking to avoid more media attention. So, his recent decision to participate in a public forum — or as many media outlets are referring to it, an “apology show” — with yet another personality known for cultivating the…
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Is Your Recipe Worth $25,000?
One of TV’s top chefs has signed on to judge a kosher recipe contest that will award prizes worth $25,000. Jacques Pépin, author of more than a dozen cookbooks and host of a trio of celebrated cooking shows, will serve as a celebrity judge March 18 during the finals of the Man-O-Manischewitz Cook-Off, hosted in…
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Hummus Wars
Battles over the origins of hummus have raged across the Middle East for generations, with Israelis and Lebanese arguing over which group can claim rights to the first ever recipe and who makes the precious dip better. Recently, however, the war has reached new heights. In downtown Beirut on October 24, 300 Lebanese chefs mixed…
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The L.A. Times: ‘Jewish Guys Heart Shiksas’
Who’s to blame for keeping Jewish women off the big screen? The answer: Jewish men, at least according to commenters on a Los Angeles Times blog. Inspired by an October 20 article in the Jewish online journal Tablet, the L.A.Times blog “The Big Picture” riffed on the argument of the earlier piece, which suggests that…
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