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Books
National Jewish Book Award Winners Are Here
The Jewish Book Council has announced the recipients of the 2015 National Jewish Book Awards. The council began giving out this award — the most prestigious of its kind — in 1948. Past winners include Philip Roth, Chaim Potok and Cynthia Ozick. It’s a pretty important way of giving recognition to the year’s most outstanding…
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Jen Glantz is Your Bridesmaid for Hire
Wedded to the Business from Jewish Daily Forward on Vimeo. First comes love, then the proposal, then the nightmare of wedding planning. But brides — and grooms — no longer need to bear the burden of planning on their own. Copy editor by day and professional bridesmaid by night, Jen Glantz is the “gal pal…
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Push Your Way to Front Like Bibi
(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a knack for embroiling himself in political sideshows during foreign memorial services. He entered Israel’s latest tempest in a teapot earlier this week, attending the march for victims of France’s terror attacks even though French President Francois Hollande asked him not to. Israeli media outlets are now…
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WATCH: First Look at CBS’ Masada Mini-Series
CBS has just released the trailer for the four-hour mini-series, “The Dovekeepers,” which will air March 31 and April 1. The series is based on the critically-acclaimed and best-selling Alice Hoffman novel of the same name which, in turn, is based on true events at Masada. The Masada story is told from the perspective of…
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Amazon Signs Woody Allen to Direct TV Show
Getty Images Amazon.com Inc said it signed Woody Allen to write and direct a new TV series for its video streaming service. The half-hour series will be shown on Amazon’s Prime Instant Video in the United States, the UK and Germany, Amazon said. The company said it had ordered an entire season of the “Untitled…
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PHOTO: Charlie Hebdo’s Latest Cover
Charlie Hebdo will be back en force on Wednesday, after a terror attack that left 12 dead. The magazine is set to release a record-breaking 3 million copies this week, dwarfing its usual print run of 60,000 in response to soaring demand for the first edition of the satirical weekly since last week’s deadly attacks…
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Jeff Goldblum Is Going to Be a Daddy
Mazel tov! Jeff Goldblum and new wife Emilie Livingston are expecting their first child together. The happy couple revealed the news during an appearance on “The Late Show With David Letterman” on Friday. “She’s pregnant!” Goldblum, 62, gushed “She’s three months pregnant.” “She told me the day before we got married that she’s pregnant. It’s…
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Social Justice Was The Golden Globes’ Biggest Winner
Jeffrey Tambor, Jill Soloway celebrate their win for ‘Transparent’ // Getty Images George Clooney had one. Kathy Bates, Diane Kruger and Dame Helen Mirren too. Signs and buttons with the simple but powerful words “Je Suis Charlie” — French for “I am Charlie” – were everywhere Sunday at the Golden Globes ceremony. The usually raucous…
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The Dean of Women Drummers
Photo: Gesi Schilling “What I’ve done with the magazine — through social media, through web and through print — is hype us to an extreme, to make up for lost time.” That’s Mindy Abovitz in a mini-documentary on “The Oral History of Female Drummers,” a 2013 performance at MoMA PS1, in Queens, during which seven…
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Jewish Stars Wow in Red on Golden Globes Red Carpet
Just call it a comeback – on the red carpet – for “Girls” creator Lena Dunham, who wowed in a stunning ruby red satin Zac Posen (who else!) number at the 72nd Annual Golden Globes Awards Sunday night. Dunham, one of four Jewish actresses nominated by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, rolled snake eyes inside…
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America-Israel Cultural Foundation Celebrates Its 75th
The America-Israel Cultural Foundation’s 75th Gala Celebration at Lincoln Center’s Rose Hall was a thrilling event. Host and past AICF honoree Itzhak Perlman recounted that as an 11-year old fifty-nine years ago upon receiving his scholarship from Israel’s then PM Moshe Sharett (who had changed his name from Shertok to Sharett) he’d been urged by…
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