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Israeli Dating Show Wins Top TV Awards
Perhaps it was bashert. A show about religious singles looking for love in Jerusalem took best drama honors August 28 at the annual awards ceremony of the Israeli Film and Television Academy. “Srugim,” about the romantic ups and downs of five 30-something singles, scored something of an upset in claiming the prize, topping a night…
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A Blitzkrieg Bop for God
Like their forefathers, members of punk band Moshiach Oi! have great reverence for the Moshiach, or Messiah. The only difference is that these punk rockers have traded in their walking sticks for thrashing guitars. In their debut album, “Better Get Ready,” Moshiach Oi! has found a divine balance of religion and rock. Released on August…
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From ‘A Star Is Born’ in Israel to NYC’s Highline
Paula Valstein isn’t the first musician attempting a crossover from reality TV to the U.S. pop charts — but she is the first with a major fan base in Israel. Less than a month after getting eliminated from “Kochav Nolad,” Israel’s version of “American Idol,” Valstein will perform August 28 at New York City’s Highline…
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Fantasy And Scandal: Novelist Lethem’s Manhattan
Award-winning novelist, essayist and short-story writer Jonathan Lethem says he grew up in an “unselfconsciously secularized” New York Jewish enclave. Jewishness “is so taken for granted, so knit into the urban identity,” Lethem told the Forward. “Bernard Malamud has that quote that all men are Jews — I don’t know if it’s true, but all…
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Memories of Molly Picon
ALEXANDRA LEBENTHAL CENTER STAGE AT RITA HAYWORTH ALZHEIMER’S KICKOFF PARTY The July 31 kick-off party for the 2009 Alzheimer’s Association Rita Hayworth “So Near & Yet So Far” October gala was hosted by her daughter Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, Anne Hearst McInerney and Jay McInerney at the McInerney’s Water Mill home. Gala chair Alexandra Lebenthal’s…
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Coining Haute Judaica
At the intersection of Judaica and high fashion is a new jewelry line that features pendants made out of Israeli coins. The collection is called Kessef, which is the Hebrew word for money and a play on the last name of its 27-year-old founder and designer, Eve Lynn Kessner. Two years ago Kessner enrolled in…
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Duck and Cover!
On August 14, the Jewish Lads and Girls Brigade in the UK set the Guinness World Record for the world’s largest custard pie fight. With 253 people joining in on the festivities, the group demolished the original record, which was set in 2008 by 120 people in Los Angeles. After unleashing 648 pies in a…
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Puppets Perform, No Strings Attached
‘I’ve been a puppet… a poet, a pawn and a king.” Frank Sinatra wasn’t talking about actual puppets when he sang those words in his 1966 song “That’s Life,” but festival-goers should expect puppets, kings, poets and more at Jerusalem’s International Festival of Puppet Theater, presented from August 9 to August 14 at the Train…
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Israel Goes Gaga!
Israeli music fans know how to treat a Lady. That is the hope, in any case, as one of the biggest pop breakthroughs of recent years makes her way to Tel Aviv. Lady Gaga, responsible for several of 2009’s most ubiquitous hits, will take the stage August 19 at the city’s Non Stop Musix Festival,…
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Heads You Win Rabin
Nearly 14 years after Yitzhak Rabin’s death, his name remains as good as gold — and silver. On August 10, the Bank of Israel announced that it had received authorization to memorialize the former prime minister through a series of new coins that will bear Rabin’s likeness. Set to enter circulation in 2011, the special-issue…
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Battle of the Blow-Dryers
If we’ve learned one thing from Adam Sandler’s Zohan, it’s that you don’t mess with Israeli hairdressers! Thirty Israeli beauty stylists carrying an arsenal of hair dryers, nail polish and makeup will head to Paris in October 2010 to compete in the Organisation Mondiale Coiffure World Championship. The competition is run by the OMC, the…
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