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I Want My JNF
When 205 college students signed on with Jewish National Fund to spend their spring break in Israel planting trees, they probably figured they’d be far from the beer-and-babes high jinks generally associated with spring break broadcasts on MTV. Little did they know that MTV would be catching up with them all the same. On March…
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The New New Republic
One of the most hands-on pro-Israel media personalities in America has sold his magazine to one of the most hands-on pro-Israel media personalities in Canada. Martin Peretz sold the last of his stake in The New Republic to CanWest, the Winnipeg-based media company owned primarily by Leonard Asper and his family. Peretz, who has been…
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A Familiar Story Could Snag Oscar
This year’s list of Oscar nominees is rife with films that make political statements — “Blood Diamond,” “Babel,” “The Queen,” “The Last King of Scotland.” Add to this “West Bank Story,” a film nominated in the “live action short” category. Set in the West Bank, the film is about the eruption of love between an…
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Israelicious
Bar Refaeli made history this month, becoming the first Israeli model to be featured in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. Born in Hod HaSharon, the 21-year-old beauty started doing commercials in Israel when she was eight months old. At 10, she wanted to be a skydiver; then she gave up modeling for the three years…
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The Daily ‘Shpiel’
On March 3, “Daily Show” writer Rob Kutner returns with “The Shushan Channel,” his annual megillah-themed romp through the world of pop culture. Among the skits on tap this year: “Persia’s Next Top Monarch,” “Curb Your Anti-Semitism” and “Hamantourage.” Performances will be at New York’s Makor at 9 and 10:30 p.m., but this year, for…
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Great Scott
Actor Scott Wolf has never taken home an Emmy for his work on “Party of Five,” “Everwood’ or “The Nine.” But how many other television studs can claim to have won the Social Action Award, handed out each year by the North American Federation of Temple Youth? Wolf — who was given the 2007 prize…
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Director of Oz?
Natalie Portman is reportedly interested in directing the film version of Israeli author Amos Oz’s autobiography, “A Tale of Love and Darkness.” Portman, who was making the hearts of Jewish males of all ages flutter even before exposing her midriff in the “Star Wars” prequel, has starred as Anne Frank on Broadway and appeared in…
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Four Hits for Israel Baseball League
With its inaugural season set to start in June, the fledgling Israel Baseball League has tapped three former Major Leaguers to manage teams and, in a page straight from Hollywood, signed a 45-year-old American to take the field. The league announced the hiring of three managers: former New York Yankee Ron Blomberg, 58, who made…
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Spinmeisters, Start Your Engines
Most of the press corps keep tabs on Iowa and New Hampshire for signs that the presidential race is heating up. The Shmooze, on the other hand, keeps political time by monitoring the frequency, hypocrisy and overall shrillness of statements from the National Jewish Democratic Council and the Republican Jewish Coalition. And judging from this…
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Pay Dirt
For years, American Jews who wanted to follow the tradition of burying their loved ones with earth from Jerusalem had to make due with a lesser alternative: sand. But beginning this week, real Israeli soil — approved by an Orthodox rabbi — will be for sale in the United States, thanks to the ingenuity of…
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Hail to the Chief
‘The liberality of sentiment towards each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands unparalleled in the history of nations,” wrote President George Washington in a 1790 letter sent to Philadelphia’s Congregation Mikvah Israel and other congregations in New York; Richmond, Va., and Charleston, S.C. George Washington re-enactor Jim…
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