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Jewish Roots of ‘American Idol’ Deepen
Everyone knows that Jews have exerted extraordinary influence on popular music throughout history, but it seems that not just one but two members of the Tribe are calling the shots on one of the music industry’s most visible outlets, Fox’s “American Idol.” It is known that pop diva Paula Abdul is Jewish, and recently it…
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Beauty Queen Claims the Crown
Samantha Freedman is making waves across the pond. The 18-year-old Brit recently won the crown in the Miss Hertfordshire pageant, and she’ll now go on to participate in the three-day Miss England 2007 competition, taking place at the end the month. “It’s weird, I still can’t believe it,” said Freedman, who belongs to Radlett &…
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Sluggers Hit Home
At the start of the week, the list of top hitters in baseball included two members of the tribe: Kevin Youkilis of the Boston Red Sox (fourth in the American League) and Shawn Green of the New York Mets (13th in the National League). For the first few weeks of the season, Green was the…
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Multi-Talented Mizrahi Takes the Stage
If you’re not the type of person to crack open a bottle of grape juice, light candles and bake a challah this Friday night, consider spending Sabbath eve with a fellow Jew, Isaac Mizrahi. Best known for his fashion designs (including his well-publicized line at Target), Mizrahi is a graduate of New York’s High School…
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Royal Treatment
A baby girl from a large family in the Riverdale section of the Bronx is receiving a lot of attention in Belgium. She’ll be getting a lot of benefits, as well. Four days after her birth, Batsheva Paola Spira became goddaughter to Paola Ruffo di Calabria, queen of the Belgians. Some 140 years ago, King…
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Hest Hits the Road
Last month, Columbia Records released “The Break-In,” Ari Hest’s most anticipated album yet. The record showcases a collection of new folk-pop tunes, and most of them were developed while Hest was playing in the cozy musical venues of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Hest, a Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter, has cited a group of more obvious musical heroes…
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Goodbye Dr. Ruth; Hello, Rabbi Irwin Kula
Last month, we re-launched the Forward’s famed Bintel Brief advice column with the legendary Ruth Westheimer answering readers’ questions on our Web site. Now, Dr. Ruth is handing over the Bintel Brief’s reins to our next guest advice columnist, Rabbi Irwin Kula. President of CLAL-The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, Kula was featured…
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A Shmendrik’s Progress
Two weeks ago, The Shmooze reported on an unexpected occurrence of the word tsoris on HBO’s “The Sopranos.” Even “NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams found it odd, saying that, unlike chutzpah, which everybody knows, tsoris belongs in a more rarefied class, alongside words like mishpokhe, shpilkes and keynehoreh. But if we are to go…
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Roseanne vs. the Rabbis
Rabbi Arthur Waskow had heard enough. The left-wing activist and Jewish Renewal rabbi was slated to face off via telephone with media personality Rabbi Shmuley Boteach on comedian Roseanne Barr’s radio show last week. But after a lengthy lead-in during which Barr and her co-host/boyfriend, Johnny Argent, let loose a torrent of invective against Judaism,…
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God Is in the Details at Creation Museum
While millions of Americans head to beaches, campgrounds and amusement parks over Memorial Day weekend, a Christian conservative group will be launching a very different type of attraction: a $27 million high-tech museum devoted to creationism. Dubbed simply the Creation Museum, the venture will share many of the features common to all big natural history…
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Goodbye Dr. Ruth; Hello, Rabbi Irwin Kula
Last month, we re-launched the Forward’s famed Bintel Brief advice column with the legendary Ruth Westheimer answering readers’ questions on our Web site. Now, Dr. Ruth is handing over the Bintel Brief’s reins to our next guest advice columnist, Rabbi Irwin Kula. President of CLAL-The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, Kula was featured…
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