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Signs of the J-Word on Showtime Hit
We know that Jodi Lerner — the fiery new deaf character who debuted last month on Showtime’s “The L Word” — is out of the closet. But is she as Jewish as her name sounds? Probably, replies the actress who plays her — Academy Award winner and Emmy nominee Marlee Matlin. “We haven’t discussed Jodi’s…
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Don’t Tell Bubbe: Gentile is Kosher Queen
A panel of experts convened in New York City last week to determine the country’s best kosher cook, and the results may come as a surprise: The winner was not Jewish. Riding her delicious sweet potato encrusted chicken to victory, Candace McMenamin of Lexington, S.C., won the first-ever Simply Manischewitz Cook-off. About 350 people packed…
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Paying Tribute to ‘The Boss’
A lineup of some of the biggest names in the music biz will be feting none other than The Boss himself. In a charity tribute concert slated for April 7 at New York City’s Carnegie Hall, Jewel, Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds and guitar legend Steve Earle will all sing Bruce Springsteen classics for a good cause:…
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Richard Gere Hails Dean
FIGHTING FOR WOMEN’S AND CHILDREN’S RIGHTS AROUND THE GLOBE “I would… like to acknowledge the supreme sacrifice you have made in choosing to spend the evening with us rather than watch the State of the Union [speech],” said Kati Marton, co-chair and emcee at the January International Women’s Health Coalition gala at Cipriani 42nd Street….
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Old Forward Hand Keeps Rolling Along
Don’t let anyone tell you that an internship at the Forward isn’t a springboard to the big time. Just ask Mordechai Shinefield: He’s in the running for a plum gig at Rolling Stone. As a companion to the MTV reality series “I’m From Rolling Stone,” on which six hungry writers are vying for a yearlong…
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A New Level of Interfaith Understanding
Though Reform rabbi Andrew Bossov and Methodist reverend Karen Onesti may have their theological differences, they can now claim at least one vital bond. Bossov, 47, successfully received one of Onesti’s kidneys during an urgent January 23 organ transplant at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital. Both patients are now back in their hometown of Mount…
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Serving Up Sephardic Film
Calling all film buffs! The 11th annual New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival opens this week, with New York premieres of feature films, documentaries, panel discussions and events. This year’s theme is Sephardic Voices in Israeli Cinema. The series opens with Dina Zvi-Riklis’s “Three Mothers” (in Hebrew, French and Arabic with English subtitles). The film…
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Simon Says, In Yiddish
BIKEL AND FINKEL SHINE IN YIDDISH VERSION OF NEIL SIMON’S “THE SUNSHINE BOYS” From the moment Theodore Bikel and Fyvush Finkel commandeered the stage at the January 7 one-day-only Yiddish reading of Neil Simon’s “The Sunshine Boys,” “Di Komediantn” (the 1975 film version starred Walter Matthau and George Burns), they had the overflow audience at…
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Baker Group Advisers ‘Surprised,’ ‘Upset’ at Report’s Israel-Iraq Link
Washington – Several advisers to the bipartisan Iraq Study Group were surprised and upset by the decision of panel leaders to argue that American success in Iraq depends in part on progress in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Forward has learned. Issued eight weeks ago, the Iraq Study Group’s final report asserted that “the United…
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A Swank Passover
While Jews everywhere are dipping their pinkies in kosher wine and chanting the names of the plagues that befell the Pharaoh and his people, multiplexes nationwide will be offering Hollywood’s latest twist on the story. “The Reaping,” starring Hilary Swank as a skeptic investigating an outbreak of plagues in a small Southern town, opens March…
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Honoring Shamir
ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER READY FOR ANYTHING “My 17-year-old mother gave birth to me on the floor of a train in Kazakhstan” revealed Israel’s consul general in New York, Arye Mekel, at the intimate December 12, 2006, reception he and his wife, Ruth, hosted at their residence for Dr. Benjamin Davidson, director general of Assaf Harofeh…
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