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Attention Jewish TV Lovers: Josh Lyman And Sarah Pfefferman Got Married.
[Cue nostalgic piano remixed with crashing drums and the sound of patriotism:] Amy Landecker and Bradley Whitford were married this week. She stars as Sarah Pfefferman on the Jewier-than-Jewish Amazon show “Transparent;” he had a guest-arc on the show in flashback sequences as her father’s friend, Marcy Hirschfeld. He stars as Commander Joseph Lawrence on…
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Here Are The Resurfaced Tweets Where Trump Used Jewish Dog Whistles On Jon Stewart
It’s no secret that President Donald Trump once criticized comedian Jon Stewart using language that seemed to invoke Stewart’s Judaism. He did it on Twitter, in 2013. That tweet resurfaced this week, when shared derisively by the account for “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah,” then later by celebrities including the singer Pink. Let’s revisit…
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Lamar Odom Visits Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Gravesite: ‘I Heard He Makes Miracles Happen’
JTA — Lamar Odom visited the New York gravesite of Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, the influential former leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, with his two children last week. “I heard he makes miracles happen,” the former NBA star said in an Instagram post. “It’s a miracle to be here at this place with my children, reflecting…
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Chelsea Clinton And Marc Mezvinsky Welcome Third Child
Chelsea Clinton announced the birth of her third child on Twitter early Monday morning. Clinton, 39, and her husband Marc Mezvinsky, 41, are already parents to four-year-old Charlotte and two-year-old Aidan. This morning, Clinton wrote, she gave birth to the couple’s third child — Jasper Clinton Mezvinsky. This morning we welcomed our son, Jasper Clinton…
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Natalie Portman, Rachel Weisz, Scarlett Johansson: Jewish Women Will Dominate Marvel Stage 4
In Marvel’s 2011 superhero movie “Thor,” Natalie Portman played lead character Chris Hemsworth’s love interest. Hemsworth was a relatively unknown actor, Portman was well into her second decade as an A-lister. He played a literal god, she played a scientist who guided his fashion decisions while he handled saving the world. He was physically enormous…
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500 Refugees And Migrants Watched Yiddish ‘Fiddler On The Roof’ Together — ‘This Is My Story’
On June 20, World Refugee Day, 500 immigrants, refugees, and employees of immigrant aid organizations gathered to watch the acclaimed off-Broadway Yiddish-language revival of “Fiddler on the Roof,” super-titled in Russian and English. Three days earlier, the President had promised that the US would remove “millions of illegal aliens”; two days earlier, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez…
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Natalie Portman Compares Anne Frank To Current Migrants Hiding From Ice
In 1997, novelist and cultural critic Cynthia Ozick wrote an article for the New Yorker criticizing the “distortion” of the historical and literary figure of Anne Frank. “Complicit in this shallowly upbeat view,” she wrote, are two unlikely confederates — Frank’s father Otto, and a promising child actress named Natalie Portman. Portman starred on Broadway…
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Alyssa Milano, Jason Mraz, Nicole Richie Offer Tentative Support To Mariane Williamson
“You have harnessed fear for political purposes and only love can cast that out,” Marianne Williamson declared in the first round of presidential debate, addressing President Donald Trump. A handful of celebrities of slightly dubious standing have heard that call — TV star and activist Alyssa Milano, it-gal Nicole Richie, and pop-folk artist Jason Mraz….
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A Prestige ‘Gossip Girl’ Reboot Is Coming To Television
Guess who’s back, back? Back again-gain? The tweens and teens who watch the reboot of “Gossip Girl” when it airs on WarnerMedia’s new streaming service won’t know that reference, that’s for sure. “Gossip Girl,” the teen soap opera about fabulously wealthy, criminally under-parented Upper East Side high schoolers and their tragically upper middle class friends,…
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Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach To Write Warner Bros. ‘Barbie’ Movie…About Solipsism?
Life in plastic is fantastic. Life in a muted, almost under-water environment where rich people with treatable psychiatric problems live lives of attractive nihilism is also very good. Such we shall likely see in the long-awaited “Barbie” movie, which signed filmmakers Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach as co-writers this week, The Hollywood Reporter announced this…
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From ‘GoT’ To ‘Maisel’ To ‘Kominsky,’ Jews Dominate The 2019 Emmy Nominations
The golden age of television continues to beat down on us mercilessly, like the sun on a particularly glorious day of global warming. The comedy is cutting-edge, the drama is devastating, and the darkly comic, Talmudic, Kabbalist-influenced prestige series is…popular? A veritable kehillah of Jewish creators, actors, and more are up for awards at the…
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