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She Thinks She Can Dance
Just six years ago, when Hanna-Lee Sakakibara plunged through the floor of a Jerusalem wedding hall in an infamous disaster that left 23 Israelis dead, it was unclear whether she would ever pirouette again. But next week she will become the first Israeli to appear on the Fox reality show “So You Think You Can…
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Deconstructing Woody
American Apparel founder Dov Charney is notorious for ads featuring scantily clad young women modeling his company’s clothes while striking provocative poses. Now, it appears, he’s found religion — or at least he’s found the appropriate rebbe: Woody Allen. The trendy T-shirt purveyor recently put up a billboard at the busy corner of Houston and…
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A Webby Honoree
The Forward’s Web site was recently selected as an official honoree in the 11th annual Webby Awards, the Internet’s most respected symbol of success. Only seven sites were afforded official honoree status in the newspaper competition. An additional five nominees were named finalists, making www.forward.com one of the top 12 finishers. The selections were made…
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Brian Williams, Yiddishist?
A debate over Yiddish usage broke out in our offices this week, and it was settled by an unlikely authority: “NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams. The brouhaha centered on last Sunday night’s episode of HBO’s series “The Sopranos” and what seemed to some a strangely placed Yiddish locution. While engaged in conversation with the…
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Scarlett’s Falling Morningstar
Last fall, actress Scarlett Johansson was named to this paper’s annual list of the American Jewish world’s top 50 movers and shakers. Not only had the voluptuous starlet — who has a Danish father and a Jewish mother — apparently cured Woody Allen of his shiksa fetish, but she was slated to play one of…
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Wedding Bells for Winehouse
She may be “no good,” but Amy Winehouse wants what the good girls want: a traditional Jewish wedding. According to the Sunday Mirror, the tattooed British songstress with the famed bad-girl persona wants to get hitched under a chupah, by a rabbi. Her fiance, Blake Fielder-Civil, is allegedly planning to convert (no word yet on…
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The Nebbisher Rebbe
American Apparel founder Dov Charney is notorious for ads featuring scantily clad young women modeling his company’s clothes while striking provocative poses. Now, it appears, he’s found religion — or at least he’s found the appropriate rebbe: Woody Allen. The trendy T-shirt purveyor recently put up a billboard at the busy corner of Houston and…
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Obama’s Novel Fundraising Scheme
While the chattering class continues to ask about the extent of Senator Barack Obama’s support for Israel, two renowned Jewish writers are busy raising money for him. Ayelet Waldman and her husband, Michael Chabon — whose latest novel, “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union,” re-imagines Alaska as the homeland of the Jewish people — recently circulated an…
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Howard Stern, Wedding Smasher?
The Shmooze had a very important question for Howard Stern when we spotted the shock-jock with fiancee Beth Ostrosky on April 26 at the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of his friend Adam Carolla’s film, “The Hammer.” “Will you be breaking the glass at your wedding?” we asked. “We haven’t figured out the wedding yet,” Stern…
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Filmmaker Cries, ‘Yoo-hoo!’
Filmmaker Aviva Kempner has a theory about what makes a good sitcom. “All the best ones,” she said, “have people walking into and out of each other’s apartments: ‘Seinfeld,’ ‘Friends,’ ‘The Honeymooners,’ ‘I Love Lucy.’ And who’s the one who first developed that? A Jewish woman from New York.” Kempner, who charmed audiences with her…
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Time to Suit Up, Sandy
It was an interesting week for Jewish — and quasi-Jewish — baseball players, both present and past. On April 27, New York Mets star Shawn Green (currently sixth in National League hitting), along with teammates David Newhan, Scott Schoeneweis and Aaron Sele, reportedly paid a visit to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington,…
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