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Fast Forward David Blatt Meets With Cleveland Cavaliers About Job
David Blatt, who recently resigned from his job as coach of the championship Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team, is set to meet with the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers. Blatt will interview Wednesday with the Cleveland Cavaliers for their vacant head coaching position, Yahoo Sports first reported Sunday citing what it called “league sources.” Blatt, 55, stepped…
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Fast Forward Abbas’ Wife Undergoes Surgery at Tel Aviv Hospital
The wife of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was released from a private hospital in Tel Aviv after having surgery there. Amina Abbas was sent home Sunday from the Assuta Medical Center following the procedure on her leg two days earlier. The surgery was performed amid a search for three Jewish teens purportedly kidnapped by…
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Fast Forward Tel Aviv Breaks Guinness Record for Largest Shabbat Dinner
More than 2,000 people set the Guinness World Record for “largest Shabbat dinner” in Tel Aviv. At an event Friday evening hosted by Chabad-Lubavitch and White City Shabbat, a Tel Aviv organization that hosts and coordinates Shabbat meals, 2,226 people gathered for what was billed as the largest Shabbat dinner ever. An official representative of…
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Opinion Israel Loves Gay Cash — Just Not Gay Marriage
Israelis take part in Jerusalem’s annual gay pride parade in 2011 / Getty Images What do you reckon is the busiest time of year for Tel Aviv’s hotels — maybe the High Holidays? Perhaps Christmas/New Year’s, when America’s families are on vacation? How about Gay Pride Week? Bingo! With the annual Gay Pride parade scheduled…
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Fast Forward Maccabi Tel Aviv’s David Blatt on NBA Radar for Coaching Slots
David Blatt, who guided Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv to the Euroleague basketball championship, is rumored to be in the mix for several coaching jobs in the NBA. The Cleveland Cavaliers reportedly have contacted Blatt for their vacant head coaching post, The Associated Press reported, citing a person familiar with the situation. The Cavs, who fired…
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Fast Forward Lady Gaga To Play Tel Aviv, BDS Or No
American singer and performer Lady Gaga will appear in Tel Aviv as part of her current concert tour. Lady Gaga will perform at Yarkon Park on Sept. 13, her producers announced Sunday. The appearance is part of her current world tour: “artRAVE: The ARTPOP ball,” named after her album released last November. She will perform…
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The Schmooze 12 Times Mick Jagger Spoke Better Hebrew Than You
Yes, the concert was undersold. And, while some said that it was just OK, that Jagger’s voice is showing its age (71, to be precise), that Keith Richards’ guitar licks were a tad uninspired, that the set list could have been better (perhaps too many relatively obscure songs), it doesn’t matter. Why? Because it turns…
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Culture A Funny Thing Happened On My Way to the Rolling Stones Concert
On a third floor balcony across the street from me in central Jerusalem, a strange ceremony is taking place. On one side of the balcony stands a heavy-set religious man with a an oversized white dress and a huge black skullcap, and on the other side an attractive young blond woman, dressed in colorful clothes,…
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