Nicholas Stoller remembers the day he joined the \”Jew-Tang Clan,\” the creative posse led by comedy wunderkind Judd Apatow (\”The 40-year-old Virgin,\” \”Knocked Up\”).\n\nApatow was interviewing the then-24-year-old writer for a job on his 2000 college sitcom, \”Undeclared.\”
When writer/director Morgan Spurlock (\”Super Size Me\”) discovered he was going to become a father two years ago, he was concerned about the tumultuous state of the world into which his child was being born. Spurlock\’s wish was to give his child a safer and more harmonious place to live. So, after a crash course in combat survival, the filmmaker set off on a journey through the Middle East to find the one man who has shaped the world\’s perception of that region in recent years: Osama bin Laden. The results of that quest are documented in his new film, \”Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?\”
When the Dodgers celebrated their 50th anniversary in Los Angeles on March 29 with an exhibition game at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, it seemed almost fitting that a Jewish ballplayer, Red Sox first baseman Kevin Youkilis, would hit a pivotal home run that helped Boston win the game. During the Dodgers\’ final home game against the Chicago Cubs at the Coliseum in 1961, a young left-handed pitcher named Sandy Koufax won the ballgame for Los Angeles.
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni flew to the Qatari capital of Doha in the Persian Gulf this week with an ambitious goal: changing moderate Arab attitudes toward Israel.
PHILADELPHIA — It\’s the question that just won\’t go away for presidential hopeful Barack Obama.
No matter how many times he addresses it or gives major speeches about it, the \’pastor question\’ pursues him in the Jewish community — and beyond.
When news broke last year that Pope Benedict XVI was reviving an ancient prayer for the conversion of the Jews, the reaction in Jewish circles was outrage tempered by confusion.
Communal leaders warned that the move would deal a serious blow to the four decades of progress in Jewish-Catholic relations following Nostra Aetate — the landmark document that absolved the Jews of collective guilt for the killing of Jesus — unless the pope clarified how the prayer meshed with Catholic doctrine.
\”Avadim Hayinu,\” one of the first refrains of the Passover seder, usually refers to the fact that we were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt. \”What enslaves us as men,\” is another interpretation — this at The Man Seder, the third annual men-only pre-Passover gathering, which takes place at American Jewish University this year on April 13.
Faye Levy doesn\’t look like anyone who\’s ever had a problem with her weight. The prolific cookbook author stands at 4-foot-10, and weighs about 100 pounds.
But somewhere in the mid-1980s, just as she was working on \”Chocolate Sensations\” and \”Dessert Sensations,\” she realized that testing those recipes, on top of six years at cooking school in Paris — and following every enticing smell into street markets and cafes — had added a lot of weight to her tiny frame.
He\’s only 28, but Dave Lieberman already has two cookbooks and two television shows on the Food Network. With no formal culinary training, Lieberman is among today\’s hottest young celebrity chefs.
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