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‘Big Brother’ Draws Ratings, Protesters
The Israeli version of “Big Brother,” a reality show alternately beloved and reviled by Hebrew speakers, wrapped up on December 16 in exactly the manner in which it was broadcast all season: as a ratings juggernaut. Early estimates suggest that a record 39.2% of the country’s television audience tuned in on Tuesday evening to watch…
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Celebrity Dinnertime Chez Madoff
For Bernard Madoff, who federal prosecutors say ran a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, there’s little hope these days of getting out for a leisurely dinner at Daniel, at Davidburke & Donatella, or at any of the tony restaurants near his manse on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. But Madoff’s wife, Ruth, should have no trouble preparing for…
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World Premiere: Israeli Film to Screen at Sundance
Following an impressive year on the international film festival circuit, Israel’s movie industry will get off to a strong start in 2009 with a world premiere at January’s Sundance Film Festival. “Zion and His Brother,” a family drama set in Tel Aviv, has secured a highly coveted spot in the festival’s World Drama Cinematic Competition,…
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Honors in Yiddish
The Modern Language Association of America gave a nod to the world of Yiddish on December 2 when it announced the recipients of its Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies. The top award for outstanding scholarly study will go to Gabriella Safran and Steven J. Zipperstein, who wrote “The Worlds of S….
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‘Gossip Girl’ Under the Chuppah
The CW’s hit series “Gossip Girl,” which centers on a group of New York City preparatory school students and their moneyed families, is getting an infusion of *Yiddishkeit *into its blue-blooded veins. During a recent episode, Park Avenue matron Eleanor Waldorf (Margaret Colin) married her Jewish businessman boyfriend, Cyrus Rose (Wallace Shawn). The ceremony was…
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The Rosenbergs, With Strings Attached
Already immortalized in books, plays, movies and a lithograph by Picasso, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are now being depicted once more in New York — this time, as puppets. The Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater is staging “The Very Sad Story of Ethel & Julius, Lovers and Spyes, and About Their Untymelie End While Sitting in a…
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Screening in Protest
Director Robin Garbose is planning protest screenings of her film “A Light for Greytowers” at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Israel on December 13 and 15, coinciding with the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival, which refused to screen the movie for women-only audiences. Organizers of the weeklong festival at the Jerusalem Cinematheque originally accepted the…
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A Match Made in Heaven?
You might call it a one-state solution: The grandson of Edgar Bronfman, former president of the World Jewish Congress, is engaged to M.I.A., the Sri Lankan electronica star who raps on one of her hit singles: “You wanna go? You wanna win a war? Like PLO, I don’t surrendo.” The visibly pregnant M.I.A. has told…
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Eye on the Oscars: Holocaust Film Makes the Shortlist
Adocumentary about murdered Jewish poet and paratrooper Hannah Senesh has been shortlisted for an Oscar nomination. “Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh” is among 15 films still in contention for a best documentary nomination at next year’s Academy Awards, with the final five to be announced January 22. “Blessed Is…
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‘Borat’ Composer’s Hanukkah CD
Borat’s brother has recorded a Hanukkah album. Erran Baron Cohen, brother of British comedian and “Borat” creator Sacha Baron Cohen, released his first holiday-themed collection, “Songs in the Key of Hanukkah,” on November 18, offering up original compositions as well as new, genre-fusing updates of classics, such as “Hanukkah oh Hanukkah” and “Ma’oz Tzur.” Recorded…
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Calendar Girl’s Jewish Year
Jamie Sneider may have taken the traditional notion of “comfort” out of the term “comfort food.” In her 2009 calendar, “The Year of the Jewish Woman,” the actress and comedy writer poses in skimpy outfits, often bearing iconic Jewish foods — kugel, brisket, matzo balls — that don’t necessarily look appetizing. “I have always found…
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