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Web War Ensnares Jew for Jesus Rapper
When a messianic Jewish Web site was launched this week using the logo and format of a popular Jewish blog, suspicious eyes turned to rapper-provocateur 50 Shekel, a onetime Orthodox Jew who a few months ago emerged as a Jew for Jesus. The rapper, who now prefers to use his given name, Aviad Cohen, was…
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Barbie’s (Dyed) Jewish Roots
Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain always wanted to make a short film about the modern Jewish American experience. Growing up in hippie-ish Marin County, near San Francisco, the self-described “blonde-haired, blue-eyed Jew who doesn’t have a Jewish last name” often struggled over whether to call attention to her Jewishness or let it pass. Though she was bat…
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SHORTCUTS
HITLER YOUTH: In response to public pressure, Teen People magazine, which is owned by Time Inc., killed a story on Lynx and Lamb Gaede, the 13-year-old California-based twins who make up the white supremacist singing duo Prussian Blue. According to the New York Daily News, a Time spokeswoman said that “a junior employee made unauthorized…
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Bridging the Generations
Every Wednesday after school, Jeremy Koegel’s mother drops him off at the Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring in Los Angeles for his 3:30 bridge class. The teenage card whiz drops his backpack to the floor and takes his place among a roomful of fellow bridge enthusiasts — all significantly his senior. But age is not the only…
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For the Waterlogged, A Dry Wit
In the comedic Jewish tradition of wresting laughter from tragedy, Ellen Steigman — who used to do stand-up in New York but now lives in Mandeville, just across from New Orleans’s Lake Pontchartrain — is making fun of Hurricane Katrina. Asked how can she make jokes in the face of such devastation, Steigman told the…
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Baron Cohen, Enemy Agent?
Zamanbek Nurkadilov, a former minister in the government of Kazakhstan and a critic of the country’s president, was found shot dead in his home Saturday. An alarming development, one might think, but officials of the Central Asian country seem more concerned about possible damage to their image done by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen at the…
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Covering the Spread
On November 8, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg sailed into a second term, soundly defeating Democratic challenger Fernando Ferrer by close to 20 percentage points. However, it was not until a full week after Election Day that the mayor received his most flavorful endorsement. On the first day of the 17th annual Kosherfest, held each…
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Throng Thrills to ‘Seinfeld’ Star’s ‘Fairy’ Tale
Strollers and sippy cups are not what one usually associates with the self-obsessed George Costanza of “Seinfeld.” This is, after all, the guy who, in one episode, knocked a roomful of birthday-partying children out of his way to escape a blaze. Costanza portrayer Jason Alexander, however, seems perfectly comfortable among the young and the restless….
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Shifting Gears
For Rob Reiner, there’s just no escaping it. Even after directing such movies as “When Harry Met Sally,” “The Princess Bride,” and “A Few Good Men”; even after championing a successful ballot measure to raise money and awareness for early-childhood development; even as he pilots another ballot measure to create universal preschool in the nation’s…
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Statue Gets Around
Haym Salomon wouldn’t budge. At least a Los Angeles statue of him wouldn’t. For the third time in 62 years, a statue devoted to the Jewish merchant who helped finance the Revolutionary War was being relocated, but this time around it was reluctant to make the move. Officials thought that shifting the 12-and-a-half-ton figure from…
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An Oeuvre Up For Bid
David Harris-Gershon, a struggling young writer, recently hit on a winning story — his own. The writer, a 31-year-old Jewish day school teacher and father of one (with another on the way), has offered to auction off 20% of his future literary earnings to the highest bidder. The minimum bid has been at the optimistic…
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