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The L Word: ‘Miss Yeshiva Girl’ Gets the Ax
‘The L Word” — the Showtime drama about a tight-knit group of lesbian, bisexual and transgender women living in West Hollywood, Calif. — kills off its resident Jewess in the January premiere of its sixth and final season. Jenny Schecter’s suspicious death will be the springboard for a whodunit plotline à la the famous “Who…
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Two-State Solution?
For the first time ever, Israel has chosen an Arab representative for one of the year’s most high-profile international gatherings: the televised music competition that launched the career of the Swedish pop group ABBA. Musician Mira Awad, described on her MySpace page as a “Palestinian actress, singer and songwriter living in Israel,” will perform for…
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Songs of Hope From the Underground
Israel’s battle with Hamas has driven much of the country’s music scene underground — in many cases, literally. Since the outbreak of fighting, December 27, dozens of Israel’s best-known singers have performed free concerts for compatriots living within range of Palestinian rockets, sometimes playing in bomb shelters in Beersheba, Ashkelon and Ashdod. Musicians ranging from…
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Sendak’s Wild Things Move to Hollywood
If you ever felt like your Jewish relatives belonged on a page in Maurice Sendak’s “Where the While Things Are,” you were probably right. The celebrated children’s author and illustrator based his classic fanged monsters on Yiddish-speaking family members who descended upon Sendak’s childhood home every weekend to clear the cupboards and pinch young Maurice’s…
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Basketball Star Shines on the Big Screen
Talk about a role reversal: It’s a Jew barking orders at the Germans in an upcoming Israeli movie, though much of the shouting is restricted to a basketball court. “Playoff,” a Hebrew-language biopic now in the early stages of development, will tell the unlikely story of an Israeli basketball coach recruited to head the West…
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Jewish ‘Bachelor’ On Prime Time
Vying for the affection of heartthrob Jason Mesnick, the 25 lady singletons on ABC’s “The Bachelor” went to great lengths to get his attention on the show’s January 5 season premiere. Raquel busted out salsa steps, but Molly cut in. Stacia, Renee and Stephanie played the single mom card, empathizing with the difficulties Mesnick faces…
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Hundreds of Little Dreidels
It was the opposite of the “No Spin Zone.” On December 22, hundreds of southern California Hanukkah enthusiasts converged on Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade in a mass attempt to break one of the few world records Michael Phelps left standing in 2008: the distinction of spinning the most dreidels simultaneously. Enlisted by Sha’arei Am…
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Stamps of Approval
Two Turkish diplomats who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust have been honored with commemorative stamps recently issued by Turkey’s postal system. Selâhattin Ülkümen (1914–2003), consul general of Turkey in Rhodes from 1943 to 1944, saved 42 Jewish families from deportation to concentration camps and was declared a Righteous Gentile by Yad…
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Sibling Act Steals the Show
Among the standout acts at a December 23 “Storytelling” Hanukkah event, sponsored by Heeb magazine, was that of sibling comics Eliot and Ilana Glazer, who presented two case studies of their American Jewish grandparents. The Glazers, who have been making a name for themselves in New York’s underground comedy scene — launching three ongoing comedy series…
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Meyer Lansky’s Off-Broadway Debut
He spent a long, blood-soaked career in the shadows, but Jewish mobster Meyer Lansky is finally taking center stage. “Lansky,” a one-man play about the infamous gangster, will begin previews January 23, in an off-Broadway production starring Mike Burstyn. Dubbed the “financial wizard of organized crime” in his New York Times obituary, Lansky, who began…
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New Magazine on Campus
As major media outlets across the country file for bankruptcy and scatter their employees to the wind, several college students affiliated with Hillel, the ubiquitous Jewish campus-life organization, are starting their own national magazine. The first national edition of Schmooze magazine, published this past fall, features a guide to 21st-century matchmaking; an essay cautioning would-be…
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