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Self-Reflection Comes to Broadway
‘Ten Days. Ten Questions,” is the philosophy behind a creative campaign called doyou10q.com that is posing introspective questions to Jews and non-Jews alike in a most unusual spot. Unlike our Jewish ancestors, who contemplated their actions and life during the 10 Days of Awe between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur in privacy and solitude, modern…
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Holiday Pilgrimage for Israeli Rockers
A small group of Israel’s top entertainers returned home after Rosh Hashanah from a traditional holiday pilgrimage — to Ukraine. Top-selling musicians, including Eyal Golan, Lior Narkis and Kobi Peretz, arrived back in Israel on September 21 after celebrating the New Year in Uman, a city in central Ukraine that has become a major destination…
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Home Is Where the Hat Is
A little short of green this Sukkot? Do rising sukkah construction costs have you down? Maybe you don’t have the space for a sukkah. Or due to a total lack of engineering skills, your shaky chateau is just not happening. In this Season of our Joy, don’t be left out. Instead, use your head. You…
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Therapy by Numbers
It’s long been known that psychotherapy has Jewish roots, but “speed shrinking” is something even Freud probably never tried. This trend in treatment, modeled after a new novel — and the ‘“speed dating” phenomenon — came to life at a recent event in Manhattan, where party-goers met with a string of advice-givers for three minutes…
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Lost & Found – 2,000 Years Later
Late summer excavations in Israel have turned up what archaeologists say are two remarkable findings that illuminate Israel’s history. In mid-September, the Israeli Antiquities Authority announced the discovery of a small but significant engraving — 2,000 years old — of a menorah in an ancient synagogue in the Galilee. “This is the first time that…
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Israeli Film Wins Top Prize in Venice
In the 60 years since the Venice Film Festival first bestowed its Golden Lion award, no Israeli film has ever won — until now. On Sept. 12, filmmaker Samuel Maoz received the top prize for his film, “Lebanon,” which focuses on the 1982 Lebanon war. Few writers and directors get to fully experience what they…
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Israel’s Lady Madonna
What has blond hair, a fancy for Kabbalah and causes Facebook newsfeeds throughout the Middle East to be bombarded by status updates? If you said Dimona, you’re close. It’s Madonna, and if it seemed as though her two recent shows at the end of her “Sticky and Sweet” tour brought Israel to a standstill —…
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For the Benefit of Mr. Epstein
No disrespect to Beatles’ producer George Martin, but Paul McCartney made one thing clear in a 1997 BBC interview. “If anyone was the fifth Beatle,” McCartney said, “it was Brian [Epstein].” Epstein, who died in 1967, will be given his proper due in “A Life in the Day,” a new film that depicts the early…
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300 Jews…How Many Blogs?
What event could possibly draw secular and religious Jews, obsessive hummus devotees and Jewish mother in-law experts? An opportunity to learn how to expertly opine on Jewish topics online. The Nefesh B’Nefesh Second International Jewish Bloggers Convention was slated for September 13. The event, which will focus on “Uniting the Jewish Community Through Social Media,”…
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I Vant To Pump You Up
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a former weightlifter, once said this about body fat and exercise: “It’s simple. If it jiggles, it’s fat.” For Effi Kivelevitz, extra adipose is one thing he does not have to worry about. Kivelevitz was named the overall winner of the Israeli Amateur Federation of Bodybuilding’s Mr. Israel 2009 contest on…
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‘Appetizing’: Some Like It Smoked
For four generations, Russ & Daughters on the Lower East Side of Manhattan has purveyed its wares of fish-oriented, traditional Jewish food. And on August 26, 36 people came to a tasting venue on Astor Place to savor the wares of what the London’s Sunday Times once called the “Louvre of Lox.” The event was…
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