STAR mixes tradition, values, fun for Sephardic teens
Karmel Melamed
December 3, 2014
Who knew that playing paintball and taking trips to the Santa Monica Pier could be so … Jewish?
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Stormin’ da castle: Tony Curtis in Hollywood
Jewish Journal
December 31, 2008
Curtis doesn\’t fully appreciate how much his on-screen allure owed to his being Jewish
‘Nick and Norah’ star Kat Dennings is infinitely Jewish, in her own way
Amy Klein
October 30, 2008
After an article about her appeared in Vanity Fair, she blogged, \”push Aunt Nancy aside and throw open the screen door, because \’Hollywood\’s Next Wave\’ just got a lot Jewisher.\”
Tranforming the Synagogue — A Scorecard
Richard Greenberg
August 31, 2006
Synagogue transformation programs exude good intentions, but do they actually work?
Magen David Adom and the Case for Diplomacy
Hillel Neuer
June 29, 2006
After 75 years, humanitarianism prevailed over rejectionism. Last Thursday, in the early morning hours, delegates to the 29th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, assembled in Geneva from 192 states and 183 relief societies, voted by overwhelming majority to recognize the Magen David emblem and admit Israel\’s relief society.
An Ode to Parents and Other Strangers
David Finnigan
September 15, 2005
When Paul Reiser co-created and starred in the 1990s hit sitcom, \”Mad About You,\” — about a secular Jew married to a Christian — he helped spur a new trend in TV comedy: the cute but neurotic Jewish leading man.
Read All About It
Teresa Strasser
February 3, 2005
There\’s nothing inherently wrong with reading celebrity gossip magazines. If you can do it in moderation, I applaud you (and please let me know if Lindsay Lohan\’s dad ever gets his act together). In my case, however, I was a problem reader and I had to put the magazines down.
Israel Serves Up a Star
Bucky Fox
August 26, 2004
Smashnova-Pistolesi has done it on the go. She was born 28 years ago in Minsk, Belarus. Her family moved to Israel when she was 14. She stays at her parents\’ home in Herzelia when she\’s in the country. She has her own home in Italy, where she lives with her husband, the former pro Claudio Pistolesi.
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