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Brighton Beach on the Big Screen
Director and screenwriter James Gray has steadfastly avoided the Woody Allen playbook of Jewish filmmaking in his work. His previous films, crime pictures such as “Little Odessa,” “The Yards” and “We Own the Night,” feature scrappy, resilient Jewish men played by the likes of James Caan and Mark Wahlberg. In his new movie, “Two Lovers,”…
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Ariel Sharon’s Shadow Still Looms Large Over Political Landscape
Tel Aviv, Israel — As Israel gears up for its February 10 general election, the man who shaped today’s political landscape perhaps more than any other person enters his fourth year in a comatose state. Ariel Sharon’s term as prime minister ended suddenly on January 4, 2006, when he suffered a hemorrhagic stroke that put…
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Israeli Cover Girl’s SI Swimsuit Debut
Next month should be a memorable one for Esti Ginzburg. The Israeli model will turn 19, join the army and make her debut appearance in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. One of Israel’s rising stars on the international modeling scene, Ginzburg will become the second Israeli featured in Sports Illustrated’s famous photo spread, her Israeli…
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The Rabbi That Roared
What do you get the man who has everything for his 50th birthday? A 400-pound endangered Asian lion, of course. At least that’s what Rabbi Marc Schneier, the founding rabbi of two New York-area synagogues, got from his wife, Tobi Rubinstein-Schneier. The Schneiers were the guests of honor at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo on January…
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The Altalena Affair, on Film
A battle pitting Jews against Jews during the Israel War of Independence is the subject of a new historical drama that aired recently on Israeli television. “Altalena,” set during a cease-fire in the war, tells the real-life story of the titular ship — a vessel bringing contraband weapons and nearly 1,000 Jewish immigrants to the…
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NY Times’ Kosher Cookie Craze
The Sulzbergers may daven Episcopalian, but the newspaper they own has a surprising interest in the kosher status of Girl Scout cookies. In the New York edition of the January 24 New York Times — on the same page as a revelation about the motive in a 42-year-old double murder — appeared a news report…
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Japanese Author Honored in Israel
Best-selling Japanese author Haruki Murakami is following in the footsteps of Simone de Beauvoir, Milan Kundera and Arthur Miller by accepting the most prestigious literary prize given to foreigners in Israel. On February 15, Murakami, who is behind such works as “Norwegian Wood,” “A Wild Sheep Chase” and “Kafka on the Shore,” will appear at…
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Lisa Kudrow’s Family Tree
The blondest of TV’s “Friends” is going to reveal her roots. Lisa Kudrow, who spent 10 seasons playing airhead guitarist/singer and massage therapist Phoebe Buffay on the hit NBC series, is taking a camera crew with her to Belarus to investigate her Jewish family background, the actress recently told Parade magazine. “It’s a historical documentary…
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What’s in a Name?
The United Kingdom’s largest insurance company is changing its English name to a Hebrew one. Sort of. Norwich Union, founded in 1797 to provide protection against highway robbery and rural fires, will officially be redubbed Aviva on June 1, giving the company a moniker shared by generations of Jewish women. A feminine form of “spring”…
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Story of Leah, With a Twist
In a new television movie, Hasidic Brooklyn gets the Hollywood treatment. “Loving Leah,” filmed on location in New York, centers on a young widow whose life is forever changed by an obscure biblical law that requires her to wed her brother-in-law. Ultra-Orthodox Leah (Lauren Ambrose) and her secular brother-in-law, Jake (Adam Kaufman), agree to take…
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The ‘Jewish Dude’ Who Trained Mickey Rourke
Mickey Rourke had much to look forward to while filming “The Wrestler”: a serious career comeback, Oscar buzz, and getting to do back flips and build a buff physique. But each week, the actor could not wait for an entirely different indulgence — the Sabbath. To prepare for the grueling task of developing a fighter’s…
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