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Culture He’s the greatest Jewish storyteller of our generation — isn’t it time for him to win the Nobel Prize?
Yes, it’s time for Ira Glass to step up to the podium in Oslo — and time for the Nobel to modernize
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Culture I Wanted To Know The Real Etgar Keret. So I Took Him To A Clowning Class.
“I think all of us love this work because we see the humanity involved. We see the sweep.” Jean Taylor, an instructor in theatrical clowning with the Barrow Group, paced a few steps in a small, white-walled studio a few blocks from Times Square while Israeli short story writer Etgar Keret and I sat on…
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The Schmooze Anton Yelchin’s Last Film, Ira Glass At RadioLoveFest And More To Read, Watch And Do This Weekend
Astonishingly, it’s nearly spring; Daylight Saving Time kicks in on Sunday, and it’s almost possible to imagine what it might be like to no longer be cold all the time. (Yes, it’s true that last year winter extended practically through May in New York. Nonetheless, sunshine is nigh!) If you aren’t quite ready to embrace the…
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Culture Supreme Court Justice: Etgar Keret Is Israel’s ‘Young Boswell’
I’ve always thought that to be Jewish was to live the life of the mind. What do I mean by that? I mean that what I have always seen as the core of our Jewish identity, the engine that has driven us through the centuries, is the intellectual package of values we carried with us…
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Culture Etgar Keret Receives The Charles Bronfman Prize
Everything was wrong. And then everything was right again at the presentation of the Charles Bronfman Prize to Etgar Keret on May 11. As Ira Glass pointed out, with all the testimonies it felt like a Memorial Service. Except that the dead guy was alive and on stage. (Seeing Ira Glass in the same room…
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The Schmooze Ira Glass and Mike Birbiglia Talk Shop About New Movie
In a recent interview with the Huffington Post, “This American Life” creator Ira Glass and comedian Mike Birbiglia talked comedy, improv, the creative process and what it means to give up on your dreams in a discussion about their new movie, “Don’t Think Twice.” The movie, which was written by Birbiglia and produced by Glass,…
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The Schmooze This Israeli Life
A young Israeli grad student named Mishy holds up a cardboard sign that says “anywhere” as he hitchhikes out of Cambridge, England. He catches a ride with a Gypsy family bound for the ferry to France. In the vessel’s cafeteria Mishy meets a truck driver name Vladimir who agrees to take him to Spain. Only,…
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