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The Schmooze Gal Gadot and her Husband are Co-Producing a Movie About Fidel Castro
Gal Gadot is set to produce and possibly star in a film about how an American journalist became one of Fidel Castro’s closest confidantes. Gadot’s husband, Yaron Versano, who is also Israeli, will co-produce the drama for Warner Bros., Deadline reported. The idea is based on a recent Politico article by Peter Kornbluh titled “My…
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The Schmooze Movie News: Harvey Weinstein Surrenders, Gal Gadot To Produce Fidel Castro Film
Readers, I have some disturbing news: According to a new book by Bill Niven, “Hitler and Film: The Führer’s Hidden Passion,” the murderous fascist dictator was “delighted” when he received 12 “Walt Disney ‘Mickey Mouse’ films” from Joseph Goebbels, Nazi mniister of propaganda, in 1937. Later, Niven writes that Walt Disney himself entertained Leni Riefenstahl…
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Breaking News Quoting Fidel Castro, Ecuador Envoy Compares Israel to Nazis at UN
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — The Ecuadorean representative to the United Nations equated Zionism with Nazism in his speech during the celebration of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People at the United Nations General Assembly. “We repudiate with all our strength the persecution and genocide that in its time unleashed Nazism against the Hebrew people….
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News Fidel Castro on Israel and the Jews? It’s Complicated.
What did Fidel Castro stand for when it comes to Israel and the Jews? That’s a surprisingly difficult question to answer. With the Cuban’s leader’s death November 25, at age 90, his long and controversial career is sure to be reviewed minutely on every issue in the days leading up to his funeral, December 4….
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Breaking News 7 Things About Fidel Castro and the Jews
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, whose death was late Friday, had a complicated history with Jews. Under Castro, who seized power in 1959, and his brother Raul Castro, who took over as president in 2008, Jews in Cuba were extended religious freedoms and received special rations from the government for kosher meat. But the former…
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News Shmuley Boteach Shares 50th Birthday With Fidel Castro Burial — Is That a Bad Thing?
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is known for his pro-Israel activism, his support of president-elect Donald Trump, and his books about sex in the Orthodox world. But recently he found himself making a small scene about a completely different issue – the burial of Fidel Castro. My 50th birthday party in NYC this Sunday 4 December same…
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News The Jew Who Gave Fidel Castro a Boat — and Helped Launch a Revolution
Encased in a glass box on one of the main plazas in old Havana is a small and ordinary fishing boat called “El Granma.” Sixty years ago a young group of socialist militants led by Fidel Castro crossed the Gulf of Mexico on it, igniting a revolution that would affect the region for decades to…
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