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Get Ready For A Very Jewish Philip Roth TV Show
Philip Roth will speak from the grave…in the form of a television mini-series about a rabbi, of course. The late author’s 2004 novel “The Plot Against America” is being developed into a six-part miniseries from HBO, Deadline reported. Produced by frequent partners Ed Burns and David Simon, the work depicts an alternate version of American…
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‘When Harry Met Sally’ Is Turning 30 — 16 Facts About The Making Of The Movie
This July, the world’s favorite romantic comedy will turn 30. “When Harry Met Sally” director Rob Reiner and stars Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan gathered this weekend to reminisce about the orgasmically-enjoyable NYC-set love story, as old friends. Tragically Nora Ephron, the legendary Jewish screenwriter, essayist, and journalist behind the film died in 2012 at…
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‘Broad City’ And ‘Crazy Ex-GF’ Taught Jewish Women To Embrace Sex, Drugs, And Imperfection
How should a Jewish woman be? She should be like Ruth and like Esther — brave, beautiful, practicing and selfless. She should be modest. She should be a princess. She should be an over-achiever. She should be a wife and a mother. She should have a big butt and give good blow jobs. She should…
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The Worst Possible Answer: Scott Rogowsky Is Officially Leaving HQ Trivia
When the people of Israel reached the edge of the Promised Land, their leader, Moses, was not permitted to enter. He gave one last goodbye to the people, with whom he had journeyed from slavery into freedom. And then he climbed to the top of a nearby mountain, and God blessed him. And then he…
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Meet The Guys Who Sent Israel’s First Spacecraft To The Moon
[Yariv Bash](=https://forward.com/schmooze/419784/israel-aims-to-send-a-space-craft-to-the-moon-thursday-night/ wasn’t supposed to go to the moon. He wasn’t supposed to go anywhere. Just two years before the 39-year-old electronic engineer made history on Thursday, bringing an Israeli spacecraft to the moon, he was injured so severely in a skiing accident that he was paralyzed from the waist down. “No worries,” he told…
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Billy Crystal Is 70, Thriving, And Headed To Broadway
The man behind some of your favorite film roles isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty. Billy Crystal is receiving one of Hollywood’s highest honors — he’s set to make an imprint of his hands and feet outside the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, California on April 12, Variety reports. Alongside the ceremony will…
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For The Wise Child, A New Graphic Novel Haggadah
If there’s any story from Jewish history that deserves to be made into a graphic novel, it’s the Exodus story. Plagues? A magic staff-wielding superhero-figure? The splitting of the Red Sea? It’s practically begging for it. And lucky for us, someone has found a way to do that – just in time for Passover. Cartoonist…
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It’s siblings day, so we ranked the siblings from the Torah
'How good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity!'
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U.S. May Not Air Eurovision — Hosted By Israel — This Year
Last year, the world watched Israeli singer Netta Barzilai win the biggest live singing competition in the world. This year, the U.S. might not have the chance to watch the spectacle. Eurovision Song Contest, the annual spectacle that made megastars out of the likes of ABBA and Celine Dion, may not air in the U.S….
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Did You Know That Nail Polish Titan OPI Is The Brainchild Of A Jewish Mom?
If you’ve ever held a pleasantly rotund little bottle of OPI nail lacquer in your hand and felt your mood lift, you can thank Suzi Weiss-Fischmann. Weiss-Fischmann is the 62-year-old Jewish woman who created the massively successful nail art brand. She’s a Hungarian immigrant, a Jewish mother, the child of Holocaust survivors, and a super…
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Why Audrey Hepburn refused to play her ‘soul sister,’ Anne Frank
The two were born in the same year, and lived only miles apart.
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