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magician
Adrien Brody performs tricks, shticks of the Great Harry Houdini
Tom Tugend
August 27, 2014
Erik Weisz, son of an unsuccessful immigrant rabbi from Hungary, settled in Appleton, Wis., became a world-famous magician and escape artist and changed his name to Harry Houdini.
The Mensch List: A magical ability to conjure up fun
Ryan E. Smith
January 2, 2014
California “Super Lawyer”/magician Stephen M. Levine likes to joke that he can make legal troubles disappear. Ditto for rabbits and quarters.
Oz Pearlman can read your mind, but is he the next great Jewish magician?
Jewish Journal
July 9, 2013
The magician and mentalist Oz Pearlman has been running since high school, but back then he was his cross-country team’s worst asset.
Jewish masters of magic materialize at Skirball
Jewish Journal
April 26, 2011
Prestidigitation as a Jewish vocation? Could there be such a thing as Yiddeshe legerdemain? Pulling an answer out of its hat, the Skirball Cultural Center is set to open two shows: a traveling exhibition that originated at the Jewish Museum in New York, “Houdini: Art and Magic,” and a new show organized by the Skirball, “Masters of Illusion: Jewish Magicians of the Golden Age.”
David Copperfield makes patients’ cares vanish
Robert David Jaffee
February 8, 2007
Through Project Magic, Copperfield has changed the outlook and brought out the talent of patients who feel disempowered and, in some cases, stigmatized.
Opening ‘The Box’
Wendy J. Madnick
January 31, 2002
Like most of his grad student peers at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR), Rabbi Brian Zachary Mayer always thought he would eventually become a pulpit rabbi, even taking an assistant rabbi position at a prominent San Fernando Valley synagogue as training for the day he would lead his own congregation.
Up Front
Jewish Journal
April 2, 1998
It all started because of the theft of my automobile. One sunny morning, while waiting for my car pool, I noticed something in a storefront window across the street, just behind some citizens standing at a bus stop. It was a monkey. In a diaper.
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