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Brad and Natalie: Trading Places?
Natalie Portman and Brad Pitt are set to co-star in an upcoming film adaptation of Leanne Sharpton’s book “Important Artifacts and Personal Property From the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry.” In somewhat of a religious role reversal, Israeli-American Portman will play the part of Lenore Doolan, a…
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‘Slumdog’ in Israel
In a twist on the old maxim “Write Yiddish, cast British,” an Oscar-nominated director is thinking Palestinian, casting Indian. Freida Pinto, the female lead in “Slumdog Millionaire,” has arrived in Israel to film “Miral,” a drama in which the Mumbai native will play a Palestinian woman in the years after the Jewish state’s establishment. The…
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Kissing: Tongue in Cheek
A tongue-in-cheek cover song has earned an Israeli musician an invitation to a trendsetting gay awards show in the United States. Ivri Lider, one of Israel’s most popular musicians in the past decade, has been asked to perform at the New Now Next Awards, a ceremony broadcast annually in June by the Logo channel. Distributed…
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Krasikov Scoops $100K Rohr Prize
The Jewish Book Council announced on March 24 that Sana Krasikov is the 2009 recipient of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. The $100,000 award is one of the most lucrative of its kind. Krasikov won for her debut collection of short stories, “One More Year,” which provides eight insights into the lives of…
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Helen Mirren’s Hebrew Lesson
Hollywood’s newest Mossad agent has arrived in Israel for filming. Oscar winner Helen Mirren landed near Tel Aviv on March 15 to shoot scenes for “The Debt,” an English-language remake of a 2007 Israeli thriller about a small team of Mossad operatives who capture and then accidentally release a Nazi war criminal in Berlin. Four…
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Exodus to China
‘Chinese” and “Jewish” are words not often heard together (except during a conversation about Christmas Eve), but the recently published “Passover Haggadah-China” and the emerging Jewish community in China are changing that. Created by Israeli ex-pat Dvir Bar-Gal, the Haggadah tells the story of the Exodus from Egypt alongside tales of Jews in China dating…
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A Fair Shake: Christian Salt Makes its Debut
Have you had a recipe call for Christian salt lately? By next week, you just might. Joe Godlewski, a retired barber from Cresaptown, Md., was fed up with television chefs constantly beckoning for kosher salt. So, he put his styling skills to use and created the first-ever Blessed Christians Salt, a seasoning blessed by an…
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A Motherly Voice Rings On iPhones
‘Happy Hanukkah, bubbelah. Of course, I’d be happier if you had kids.” “But a new yarmulke makes you look so handsome.” “Your father didn’t work 16 hours a day for you to go to a state school.” Sound familiar? A Jewish mother is always with you, and now she’s even in your pocket. A new…
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King David’s NBC Premiere
The lowest-rated TV network has found religion. Beginning March 15, NBC will look to another well-known underdog, the Bible’s King David, to give its floundering prime-time schedule a boost. “Kings,” loosely inspired by the Old Testament hero, will debut in a two-hour premiere aimed at closing the network’s gap with Sunday night rivals, including ABC’s…
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Israeli Styles: From Tel Aviv to the World Wide Web
If a leisurely shopping spree in Israel down Tel Aviv’s bustling Dizengoff Street isn’t in the cards, a wide range of fashion-forward accessories, made in Israel by established and emerging designers, can now be purchased at coolil.com. The brainchild of Eran Shor, a New York-based Israeli marketing professional, Coolil — as in “Cool Israel” —…
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Remembering Pearl Lang
SPIEGELMAN SOUNDS OFF AT COMIC CON: ‘WHAT THE !@##! HAPPENED TO COMICS?!’ “I am told that I am the father of the graphic novel, but am still waiting for the blood test,” said Art Spiegelman,1992 Pulitzer Prize winner for “Maus: A Survivor’s Tale” and keynote speaker at the February 6-8 New York Comic Con &…
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