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The 1970s: The Transformation of Zionism
Israelis are already celebrating their 60th anniversary, recalling the heart-stopping moment in 1948 when a community of 600,000 Hebrew-speaking Jews, the sons and daughters of pioneering Zionists, brought the national home to independence: a state that the United Nations mandated to ingather survivors of death camps and other refugee Jews; a community that immediately found…
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The 1970s: Judaism and the Territories
Charles Dickens might have characterized the 1970s in Israel as both the best of times and the worst of times. Few people could have experienced the decade’s contradictions and paradoxes more acutely than a young, religiously observant immigrant to the Jewish state, as I was. It was the decade in which Israelis began settling into…
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The 1980s: Missed Opportunities
The decade of the 1970s was, for Israel, the era of the Yom Kippur War and the peace with Egypt that came in the war’s wake. The 1990s were the time of the Oslo agreement and the peace with Jordan that followed it. Sandwiched in between, the 1980s were a decade of missed opportunities. Ushered…
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The 2000s: Dashed Hopes, New Hopes
The most recent decade in Israel’s existence, 1998 to 2008, started with great expectations and ended on a note of sobriety and soul-searching. There were great expectations for peace after Ehud Barak won a landslide victory in 1999 to become Israel’s prime minister: expectations for a stable, efficient government, for better schools, for greater social…
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Israeli Actress Cracks ‘Code’
Step aside, Bar Refaeli — starting next year, Israel’s most famous international face will belong to a 38-year-old thespian from Tel Aviv. Ayelet Zurer, a film and TV star in Israel for much of the past two decades, has been tapped to play the female lead in “Angels & Demons,” a prequel to “The Da…
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When It Comes to Childcare, Songstress Sings the Blues
She’s been called sacrilegious, sinful and a Jew for Jesus. For the first time, though, Neshama Carlebach — daughter of the late rabbi Shlomo Carlebach — is saddled with an adjective that hurts: nannyless. Carlebach’s sixth CD, “One and One,” hits stores May 22. She will celebrate her newest full-length (and first English) record that…
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Yeshiva Boy’s ‘Fantasy’ Becomes Real
In the early 1960s, a nice Jewish boy from New York’s Long Island sat in a yeshiva day school and wrote his first Tony acceptance speech, while his teachers droned on in the background. That daydreamer, Neil Goldberg, has not yet had the chance to proclaim those words to the world, but his lifelong fantasy…
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T-shirts Fit For a King
If you’ve always wanted to wear an outfit emblazoned with the face of David Ben-Gurion, now’s your chance. In honor of Israel’s 60th birthday, a new line of T-shirts — featuring the mugs of figures from Israeli history alongside Israel’s Declaration of Independence — has been launched. The company, Ga-Ga for Israel, has recruited a…
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Broadway Hit Heads To Holy Land
This week, Tony Award-winning playwright and actress Sarah Jones will be in Jaffa, Israel, to perform selections from her one-woman Broadway hit “Bridge & Tunnel” at the Arab-Hebrew Theater. The performance is one of many star-studded events scheduled in honor of Israel’s 60th birthday. The trip holds significance for Jones’s artistic and personal odyssey. Her…
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Plaza Hotel Takes Visitors On a Musical Journey
Hotel lounge music isn’t usually a genre associated with experimental compositions, but a collaboration between composer Ariel Blumenthal and the Plaza Hotel in New York might change that. The newly reopened Plaza, which now houses apartments in addition to hotel rooms, is outfitted with a complex — and very expensive — sound system that has…
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Babs Cancels on Israel
Barbra Streisand recently bailed out of a celebration for Israel’s 60th birthday. Babs was scheduled to perform in Jerusalem at a mid-May event hosted by President Shimon Peres, but she canceled the engagement. No specific reason was given, but the diva’s publicist cited “personal obligations.”
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