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Pundits Follow Old Script on Spielberg Film
The debate over Steven Spielberg’s “Munich” continues to rage, often along predictable political lines. The Zionist Organization of America, which strongly opposed Israel’s Gaza pullout, issued a statement condemning the film — which tells the story of Israeli reprisals after the 1972 massacre of the country’s athletes at the Munich Olympics — and urging people…
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Tsunami Doc Says ‘I Do’
A year ago the Southeast Asian tsunami sent Ron Bombiger, a Los Angeles-based Israeli, to a Thai hospital bed with a leg injury. One of the doctors who checked in on him was Dorit Nitzan, who flew to the area as part of an Israeli emergency team sent right after the disaster hit. This week,…
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1930s Synagogue Going Once, Going Twice…
Synagogue, anyone? On eBay, an old, neglected Jewish house of worship in upstate New York is up for bids. The White Sulphur Springs Jewish Community Center Synagogue dates back to the 1930s. Back then it served a thriving community of Jewish families escaping the city for summer vacations. But the synagogue has been out of…
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SHORTCUTS
What’s in a name? According to Jews for Jesus, plenty. Last week, the Messianic Jewish organization filed a lawsuit against Internet titan Google in U.S. District Court in New York City, citing trademark infringement. The subject of the complaint is jewsforjesus.blogspot.com, the blog of an anonymous individual self-identified as Whistle Blower. The lawsuit demands control…
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New Book Takes Issue With Spielberg’s ‘Munich’
Soon after watching an advance screening of Steven Spielberg’s new film, “Munich,” journalist Aaron Klein could barely conceal his amusement. “In the beginning it said it was inspired by real events — I think that’s the understatement of the year,” Klein said about Spielberg’s film, a recounting of the Israeli response to the murder of…
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VH1 Goes Jewish
A Lenny Bruce sketch for the present day: Jack Black is Jewish; Ali G is Jewish; Madonna is goyish but pretends to be Jewish. Suddenly it’s hip to be Jewish. Or so says the new VH1 special, “So Jewtastic,” which examines Jews in pop culture with all the insight and subtlety its title would imply….
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Eleven Chefs Put the Sizzle In Philly’s Latkepalooza
Last Sunday, Philadelphia’s Gershman Y assembled an array of the city’s top chefs for its third annual Latkepalooza. The scene would have made the Iron Chef proud: One room, 11 chefs, two-and-half hours and more than 5,000 sizzling latkes. Twelve dollars was all that the mere mortal needed to play food critic for the day….
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Bark de Triumph
With the aid of some high-wattage performers, Jewcy — the hip apparel line that has been slapping kitschy Jewish logos on T-shirts to great economic effect since 2002 — held its first ever Hanukkah benefit last weekend at a nightclub in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. Stars of stage and screen took turns exploring their Jewish identities…
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A Living Memorial
December 8, 2005, marked the 25th anniversary of John Lennon’s murder. Millions of Beatles fans the world over were shocked and saddened by the unprovoked shooting outside Lennon’s New York apartment building in 1980. Later that week, they stood for 10 minutes of silence, as requested by Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono. In Israel, a group…
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More Jewish Rap? That’s Chutzpah
Chutzpah — “the world’s first Jewish hip hop supergroup” — is roughly what you would expect a Jewish novelty hip-hop group to be, provided you didn’t think too hard: On its newly released, eponymously named album the group raps about Hanukkah and about nagging mothers, throws in a smattering of Yiddish and peppers its lyrics…
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Jewish Beauty
Move over, Bess Myerson. Last weekend, after the votes of more than 300,000 French television viewers were tallied, 19-year-old Alexandra Rosenfeld was crowned Miss France 2006. The new beauty queen, who represented France’s Languedoc region in the competition, edged out 44 other contestants and automatically will serve as France’s representative in the next Miss World…
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