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World Series Machers
It appears that Wall Street-savvy translates well in the world of professional baseball, or so it goes with the management of the Tampa Bay Rays, whose team just captured the American League championship and is set to play the Phillies in the World Series. The Rays’ three top executives, owner Stuart Sternberg, president Matthew Silverman…
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Depeche Mode To Rock in Tel Aviv
The musicians of English pop group Depeche Mode are men of their word. Two years after canceling a highly anticipated concert in Israel because of the Second Lebanon War, the group has announced it will perform in the country — as promised — in a make-up show scheduled for May 10 in northern Tel Aviv….
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Political Stitch: Knitting for Obama
In the weeks after Sarah Silverman released her now infamous video urging voters to descend on Florida to persuade their grandparents to vote Obama, young Jews have carried out the mission, known as the Great Schlep, in many ways. Some 100 people actually did schlep down to Florida on a recent weekend to deliver last-minute…
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Israeli Actors Head to Hollywood
It was panned by critics and flopped at the box office, but at least one positive thing can be said for Leonardo DiCaprio’s latest thriller: It provided employment for an elite group of Israeli actors. “Body of Lies,” filmed in Morocco and set mostly in the Middle East, continues Hollywood’s long tradition of casting Israeli…
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Jackie Mason vs. Sarah Silverman
With elections around the corner, the presidential campaigns have turned up the rhetorical heat. So have the Jewish comedians. Early this month, Borscht Belt graduate Jackie Mason, a John McCain supporter, took on much younger comic Sarah Silverman, a Barack Obama fan, in a Web video that Mason released in conjunction with the Republican Jewish Coalition….
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Bar Refaeli’s U.S. Roadtrip
Call her the Israeli Tocqueville. Bar Refaeli, the first Israeli model to pose for the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition, upped her visibility in the United States even further last week, guiding viewers across the country in an October 3 TV special for the cable channel Bravo. “Ironic Iconic America,” filmed with the input of fashion…
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Conservative Coif: The Sarah Palin Wig
America’s most controversial hockey mom has inspired a new item made for religious women that probably isn’t sold up there in Alaska, gosh darn it! The “Sarah Palin Wig,” based on the hairstyle of the Last Frontier State governor and GOP vice presidential candidate, is the latest head covering to go on sale at Sheitel.com,…
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Israeli Show Hits CBS
Following a year of preparations, one of Israel’s most famous fictional bachelorettes is finally ready for American TV. Michal Golan, the protagonist of 2007 Israeli comedy “The Mythological Ex,” will make her American prime-time debut October 3 on CBS, now with a new name and language, but with a storyline already familiar to fans of…
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Nick and Norah: Not Your Average Teens
After seasons of mostly vapid teenage characters dominating the screen, big and small, Kat Dennings bucks the trend with her role in the movie “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist,” in theaters October 3. Dennings plays Norah Silverman, a feisty high-school senior music fan whose all-nighter in Manhattan with new love interest Nick (Michael Cera who…
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Animated Drama Claims Top Prizes at ‘Israeli Oscars’
And the award for the best Israeli film of the year went to… “Waltz With Bashir,” an animated feature that swept the major honors at Israel’s version of the Oscars, broadcast September 23 in Tel Aviv. The film, a vividly drawn drama about Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon, took the Ophir — the top prize…
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Rickles Renaissance
Don Rickles is on a roll. The famed insult comedian now has an Emmy to his name. He earned his statuette in the category of outstanding individual performance in a variety or music program for the documentary “Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project,” which is, of course, about him. “It’s a mistake,” the octogenarian funnyman…
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