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Israeli-Inspired Show Grabs a Few Emmys
The Emmys doesn’t have a foreign language category, so Israel’s TV industry had to make do with winning an award by proxy September 21 at the annual red carpet event in Los Angeles. Dianne Wiest, already a two-time Oscar winner, added an additional statuette to her collection by winning the best supporting actress award for…
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‘Holy’ Prog Rock
Television’s religious calendar just gets busier and busier. Five years after “The O.C.” popularized “Chrismukkah,” and 11 years after “Seinfeld” brought fans “Festivus,” music channel VH1 Classic has invented another semi-Jewish pseudo-holiday. “Rush Hashanah,” not to be confused with the Jewish New Year, will kick off on the cable network September 29 (the evening that…
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Stylish Tees, From Israel to New York
Souvenir T-shirts are getting a major makeover this month in downtown Manhattan. Rosebud, a clothing boutique in the city’s Soho neighborhood, will be selling I Love New York cotton tees that have been re-imagined into fashiony pieces by Israeli designers. The stylish project is the brainchild of the store’s owner, Fern Penn, who packed four…
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Israeli Flag To Fly High in L.A.
A ceremony outside Israel’s diplomatic headquarters in Southern California will literally stop traffic on the day before Rosh Hashanah. In a first-of-its-kind celebration in North America, Israel’s Los Angeles consulate will raise the country’s blue-and-white flag outside its Wilshire Boulevard office September 28, shutting down two blocks of the famous thoroughfare as part of a…
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Paul McCartney Says No to Extremists
Paul McCartney will not be silenced. The former Beatle has received death threats from an Islamic militant leader over an upcoming concert in Israel, but McCartney refuses to cancel the historic show, Haaretz reported. Omar Bakri, a Lebanese-Islamic activist, told the London newspaper the Sunday Express that McCartney’s decision to perform in Tel Aviv makes…
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Hollywood Celebrates Israel
Four months after most of the festivities have concluded, Hollywood is rolling out the red carpet to celebrate Israel’s 60th anniversary, honoring the country with an A-list fundraiser to be held September 18 on the Paramount Pictures lot. Oscar winners Warren Beatty, Kevin Spacey and Oliver Stone will join supermodel Heidi Klum and TV stars…
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Babs Sings for Barack
In a hastily prepared stop on his campaign trail, Barack Obama will visit Los Angeles this month in what some say will be his final Hollywood fundraiser, where he will be serenaded by Academy Award-winning entertainer Barbra Streisand. The September 16 fundraiser, co-hosted by DreamWorks executives Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen, along with…
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Woody Allen Goes to the Opera
Woody Allen’s enormous film oeuvre is many things, but “operatic” is probably not among them. So, critics have been tickled by their own conclusion that Allen’s new production of a Puccini opera isn’t half bad. “Gianni Schicchi,” the tale of a swindler who impersonates the deceased Buoso Donati in order to change the dead man’s…
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Chabon and Waldman: The Couple That Kvells Together
Ayelet Waldman — novelist, wife of writer Michael Chabon and fervent supporter of her former Harvard Law School classmate Barack Obama — spent last week on the delegates’ floor of the Democratic National Convention, cheering for her candidate. “It was like a Grateful Dead concert in the ’70s,” Waldman told The Shmooze. “Wherever you were…
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The Fine Art of Jello
If all goes according to plan, theatergoers will giggle and the artwork will jiggle this October at Beyond the Borscht Belt, a Jewish theater festival in Columbus, Ohio, gearing up to celebrate its second year. Inspired by the plot of “The Snowflake Theory,” the festival’s centerpiece production, organizers are planning an unusual if thematically appropriate…
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Haredi Singer Lands Big Gig
There was no sex or drugs, but there was rock ’n’ roll. Of a sort, anyway. Tzitzit and a black yarmulke were just part of the spectacle August 26 as Gad Elbaz, a 26-year-old from near Tel Aviv, became the first Haredi singer to perform at Israel’s Caesarea Amphitheater, a space unofficially reserved for the…
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