Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli and her boyfriend, popular American actor Leonardo DiCaprio, arrived in Israel for a vacation under heavy security.
The makers of a new Canadian reality TV show have apologized for an online trailer in which one of the program\’s characters says she hates Jews.\n
Director Doug Liman’s Manhattan home is adorned with more than a dozen photographs and even a painting of his late father, the legendary Jewish attorney Arthur Liman.
“It was Shabbat yesterday,” Jeffrey Goldberg said as explanation for why he had delayed an interview with a Jewish newspaper. But his next line pretty much foiled the excuse: “I had a lot of soccer games to go to.”
Jon Stewart has been voted the most influential man of 2010 by the online magazine AskMen.com.
Judd Apatow, Hollywood’s leading comedy mogul, was running late. “I actually have to leave, because I’m going to therapy to discuss what happened in this interview,” he said wryly in a conversation on his cell phone from somewhere in Los Angeles. “I don’t know if I’d call it psychotherapy,” he said, when asked. “I’m not a psycho.”
In “The Social Network,” writer Aaron Sorkin insinuates that one of the central drives behind Mark Zuckerberg’s development of Facebook was the hot-blooded pursuit of women.
Tom Bosley the folksy father of Richie Cunningham on the \’70s sitcom about the \’50s, ABC\’s Happy Days, died Tuesday in his Palm Springs, Calif., home. On Oct. 1 he had turned 83.
It’s not easy to find the Cinematheque Herzliya. The name is written in simple block Hebrew letters over the awning of an indoor strip mall located on Sokolov Street, the main artery in this central coast town. The obscurity is a sharp contrast from the American-style multiplexes located at the major malls near the entrance to the city, like Cinema City, Israel’s largest, or the Rav Chen. A strip mall isn’t a place where one expects to find a cultural venue. There’s an old-fashioned barbershop, a dry-cleaning store, a mom-and-pop-style household goods store and a nondescript clothing boutique. The Cinematheque was built on the grounds of the building’s old movie theater, once a local hangout until multiplexes decimated Israel’s early theaters. But the location couldn’t be more fitting for the cozy art house: It was founded on the belief that good films aren’t always about bombast, glamour and big names. Rather, they’re down-to-earth, independent and hard to find.
Strike up a conversation about mending body and soul in Israel and the conventional wisdom is to talk up the wonders of the Dead Sea and the hotel spas situated along the banks of its mineral-rich waters. Although there are several high-quality spas in the Dead Sea region, a growing number of upscale inner-city, beachfront and country hotels across Israel are also offering a wide array of soothing spa experiences, which rival almost anything the Dead Sea has to offer. Ran Bibi, manager of Inbal Jerusalem Hotel’s Health Club & Spa (inbalhotel.com), says that over the past decade there have been three shifts — cultural, geographical and spiritual — that helped widen the focus of the spa tourism business in Israel.
