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Al Gore Wins Again
On February 12, it was announced that Al Gore will be awarded the prestigious Dan David Prize. The acceptance ceremony will be held May 19 in Tel Aviv, with Israeli President Shimon Peres in attendance. The Dan David Prize, named for the international businessman and philanthropist, awards three prizes annually of $1 million each for…
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Hamas’s TV Bunny: Jews, Not Carrots
The creators of children’s television often focus their attention on improving their audience’s reading skills. Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV station, however, seems concerned with teaching its younger viewers how to spell destruction. A new video shows a human being-sized rabbit named Assud who learns that his brother, a bee, has died after being denied passage to…
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Coen Brothers Take On Chabon
Directors Joel and Ethan Coen will bring Michael Chabon’s best-selling novel “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union” to the silver screen, according to Variety magazine. Columbia Pictures acquired the rights for the film. The book imagines a fictional history in which Jews displaced by the second world war establish a Yiddish-speaking homeland in Alaska. The Coen brothers…
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Lagnado Wins Sami Rohr Prize
Lucette Lagnado won the 2008 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. The Jewish Book Council announced the news this week. Lagnado is a former editor of the Forward and is now a reporter for The Wall Street Journal. She won the $100,000 prize for her memoir, “The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family’s…
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Beastie Boy’s Lens
Adam Yauch (aka MCA) of the Beastie Boys is launching an independent film distribution company, Oscilloscope Pictures. The Brooklyn-born hip-hop icon — who was born to a Jewish family and is now a Buddhist — directed and produced “Awesome; I F—-n’ Shot That!” (ThinkFilm), a documentary that includes footage of a 2004 Beastie Boys show…
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Hitchens and Boteach’s Great Debate
Acclaimed polemicist and atheist Christopher Hitchens traded wit on science and scripture last week at a debate titled “Does God Exist?” with his opponent, Orthodox rabbi and television host Shmuley Boteach. Ticket holders filled the auditorium at Manhattan’s 92nd Street Y to capacity; many hoped that Hitchens would demonstrate his irreverent, razor-edged reasoning. The fans…
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Israeli Singer Tops iTunes
Generating buzz for pop music was once the territory of MTV and radio, but television advertisements are quickly becoming musical tastemakers, and there is no hipper marketer on this front than Apple. No wonder, then, that Yael Naim’s song “New Soul,” featured in the ubiquitous MacBook Air commercial, has garnered the French Israeli singer a…
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Christopher Columbus: Jew?
There may be a statue of Christopher Columbus next to an Astoria subway station in Queens, but some ambitious historians are promoting arguments that could lead some to think that such a statue is better placed on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Claims that Columbus was of Jewish origins have been circulating for years now, mostly…
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Figure Skater’s Jewish Look
Things heated up on the ice last Sunday when Johnny Weir and Evan Lysacek faced off in the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, held in St. Paul. The American rivals scored equal totals of 244.77 — an event practically unheard of in the world of figure skating — but Lysacek ended up taking first place, topping…
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Alan Dershowitz’s Musical Endeavors
Alan Dershowitz may have finally found a vocation that allows him to make more noise than he does as a celebrity lawyer, professor at Harvard Law School and prolific author. His new calling? Opera. “This is my current retirement project,” Dershowitz told The Shmooze. “It’s the only one without a deadline except the one God…
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Moore and Kutcher Leave Kabbalah?
Have Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher jumped the Kabbalah ship? Rumors have been flying around the Internet recently that the Hollywood couple has abandoned Jewish mysticism and is no longer attending services at Los Angeles’s Kabbalah Centre. Moore and Kutcher were married in 2005 in a Kabbalah ceremony.
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