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Director’s Mom Kvells Over Casting Coup
Helena Bonham-Carter saved the day for Paul Weiland, who is the director of “Sixty Six,” a film inspired by Weiland’s own 1966 bar mitzvah in England. At a recent preview screening at the JCC in Manhattan, the 55-year-old Brit revealed his mother’s reservations about the comedy: “I only really got away with making this movie…
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Nice Jewish Boy Signs With Israeli Team
For the past quarter of a century, basketball fans around the world have been eager to anoint the next Jordan (not the country, but the next Michael Jordan — by consensus the greatest player the game’s ever known). Every few years, a new athlete seems poised to assume the mantle, from Kobe Bryant to Tracy…
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Fashion Icons To Tie Knot
Designer Jonathan Adler and fashion maven Simon Doonan are planning a September wedding. Why the sudden urge to merge? It’s not that they’ve been dying to tie to knot: “I don’t feel like celebrating the fact that the government’s allowing me to think I’m married,” Doonan, creative director of Barneys, told New York Magazine. The…
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The Kippah Campaign
In the presidential battle between Barack Obama and John McCain, declaring your political preference has never been so easy. The McCippah and the Obamica, a new line of yarmulkes by 27-year-old Shmuly Tennenhaus, have arrived. Though it’s still too early to declare a winner, the McCippah took an early lead after one woman ordered a…
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If This Wall Could Talk
Last week, the Israeli daily newspaper Ma’ariv printed the text of a prayer note left by Barack Obama at the Western Wall. After much internal debate, the Forward has decided to publish the following. These statements were obtained in a journalistically ethical fashion: We coughed loudly and crammed them into our pockets while we pretended…
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Grandfather of 36 Goes the Distance
Heshy Josephs, 72, wanted to bike a distance that his family and friends could track on a globe. A father of five and grandfather of 36, Josephs biked 750 miles to Lakewood, N.J., from Detroit to raise money for the Michigan chapter of P’tach, for which he serves as chairman. P’tach is an organization that…
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Israeli-Inspired Show Finds U.S. Success
Turning to Israeli television for inspiration is looking like a smarter and smarter idea for American TV producers. On July 17, HBO, which earlier this year became the first channel in the United States to adapt a prime-time Israeli drama, was rewarded for its efforts with three Emmy nominations for “In Treatment,” a psychology-minded series…
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‘The Sound of Music’: A Family Tradition
In a movie scene permanently etched in the minds of many, Julie Andrews holds a golden-haired girl close to her chest while hiding in the tomblike chamber of a convent in Austria. “You must be very quiet. Hold tight to me,” she says as SS soldiers rush into the room, boots pounding and whistles shrilling….
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Movie History Made in the Middle East
Last month marked a small step toward progress through cultural understanding in the Middle East. “The Band’s Visit” became the first Israeli film to be screened in Egypt in nearly 30 years, Variety reported. Officials in Egypt had seen Eran Kolirin’s award-winning film soon after its release in 2007, but concern about protests made them…
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‘Rabbi’ of Baseball Sent Back to the Farm
Baseball’s “rabbi” has lost his Major League smicha. San Francisco Giants outfielder Brian Horwitz got his big-league career off to a strong start. After his first 14 at-bats, the 25-year-old rookie was hitting .429 with two home runs, four runs batted in and five runs scored. His teammates dubbed him “the Rabbi,” and Jewish fans…
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Aussies Count Kosher Calories
An American-born Australian rabbi is waging war on kosher calories by launching a campaign to shed pounds for charity. Rabbi Mendel Kastel, a Lubavitch movement member who is executive director of The Jewish House, a crisis center in Bondi, hopes to encourage 100 Aussie Jews to lose 10 kilograms — around 22 pounds — each….
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