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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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The Schmooze Pluralistic Shavuot at Tel Aviv City Hall
Photo courtesy of Beit Tefilah Israeli This Shavuot, the Tel Aviv Municipality broke new ground in the effort to develop a native-grown pluralistic form of Judaism that meets the spiritual and cultural needs of Israel’s non-Orthodox Jewish majority. In conjunction with the liberal, independent, egalitarian minyan Beit Tefilah Israeli, the local government of Israel’s cultural…
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The Schmooze Ladies and Gentlemen, The Rolling Stones (in Tel Aviv)
On the off chance that you couldn’t shell out the NIS 700 (approx. $200) required or charter a private jet to attend the Rolling Stones concert in Tel Aviv tonight, the band has been nice enough to post a sneak peek to Instagram. Charlie Watts and Ron Wood were spotted at the Kotel in Jerusalem…
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Culture The Secret Jewish History of The Rolling Stones
When the Rolling Stones take the stage at HaYarkon Park in Tel Aviv on June 4, it represents more than just the world’s greatest and longest-running rock band’s first concert in Israel. It also marked one small victory in the war against a rock ’n’ roll boycott of Israel being waged by some English rockers,…
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