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The Schmooze Natalie Portman Is Back!
After two years off-screen, the tribe’s pride and joy (a Harvard graduate!) is back in the limelight. Natalie Portman shines on the November cover of Marie-Claire, and dishes about her love for Los Angeles, her upcoming move to Paris and how, really, she’s just like you and me. She even has bad habits! “I bite…
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Opinion No Censorship at Theater J
A small yet vocal group seems to be holding the artistic and ethical sensibilities of the Jewish community of Washington, D.C. hostage, leading Theatre J to scale back its planned production of ‘The Admission’ by Motti Lerner. Theatre, like all arts, is meant to create dialogue as well as delight, foster intellectual discourse for new…
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Food A Jewish Chef in Fiji
There are few Jews living in the South Pacific island nation of Fiji, aside from a small Jewish community in the capital city of Suva who are mostly descendants of Australian merchants who arrived in the 1880s. One of them is Ofir Yudilevich, executive chef at the InterContinental Fiji Golf Resort & Spa on the…
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Food Fiji-Style Fish Ceviche: Recipe
Fiji-Style Kokoda Pickled Fish Serves 4 The most famous Fijian dish is called Kokoda (pronounced ko-kon-da), which has at its core a ceviche or pickled fish. In Israel and in many Jewish homes around the world, pickled herring is on every grandmother’s table. Fiji takes this basic dish and put a twist on it like…
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The Schmooze Is Woody Allen Headed to Israel?
His most recent films may be based in just about every (almost) Western European capital, but Woody Allen says he’s not a big tourist. But in an interview with Israel’s Channel 2 on the eve of “Blue Jasmine“‘s European release, everyone’s favorite neurotic admitted to considering bending the rules for a trip to the Holy…
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Fast Forward Gay Candidate Nitzan Horowitz Trails in Tel Aviv Mayor Polls
As a candidate to become the Middle East’s first openly gay mayor, Nitzan Horowitz is hoping his bid to run Israel’s famously liberal city of Tel Aviv will help homosexuals across a region where they are widely frowned upon. The left-wing legislator is not predicted to defeat the incumbent, the well-established ex-fighter pilot Ron Huldai,…
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Fast Forward Iran Floats ‘Breakthrough’ Nuclear Plan at Talks With Big Powers
Iran said it presented “logical” proposals in talks with six world powers on Tuesday aimed at achieving a breakthrough in a decade-old standoff over its disputed nuclear programme that has heightened the risk of a new Middle East war. Tehran launched negotiations in earnest with the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany, reflecting…
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Israel News Gay Candidate Nitzan Horowitz Seeks To Shake Up Tel Aviv Mayor Contest
To Nitzan Horowitz, Tel Aviv-Jaffa embodies equality and openness — but only for those who can afford to live there. In many ways, he says, his city is a beacon of tolerance. After all, a significant part of it — the exact figure will become clear only on election day, October 22 — is backing…
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