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Kabbalah: Scary Jewish Stories

Naomi Pfefferman December 30, 1999

At one point in the play, \”Kabbalah: Scary Jewish Stories,\” a yeshivabocher and a severed talking head careen across the Abyss.

Gwyneth Paltrow, Movies, Stardom and Judaism

Ivor Davis December 30, 1999

For Gwyneth Paltrow winning her first Oscar earlier this year for \”Shakespeare in Love\” was a dream come true. But for the beautiful 27-year-old superstar it was also something of a nightmare.

Kirk Douglas — Bar Mitzvah Boy

Tom Tugend December 23, 1999

The 200-seat chapel at Sinai Temple was crammed with Hollywood luminaries of yesterday and today, when Rabbi David Wolpe called Issur ben Heshel to the Torah for his bar mitzvah reading and speech.

The ADL Is Not Amused

Tom Tugend December 23, 1999

The Anti-Defamation League is not amused by a \”Saturday Night Live\” satire in which cast members, posing as pop stars, said that Jews own all the banks and that Christians have forgiven them for \”killing our Lord.\”

Errol Morris/Mr. Death

Naomi Pfefferman December 23, 1999

Errol Morris, the pre-eminent documentarian of the bizarre, ambled onstage at the Bing Theater recently, looking scruffy. He was wearing a rumpled blue windbreaker, wrinkled slacks and a wicked smile.

Olmos Connects

Marlene Adler Marks December 16, 1999

Edward James Olmos wants to connect. Give him a large multi-ethnic crowd — as was on hand Sunday at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles — and he\’ll split himself into pieces finding common links.

Homage to Democracy

Tom Tugend December 9, 1999

Who would have thought, muses Dr. Uri D. Herscher, that the Skirball Cultural Center would reach such prominence in so short a time.

Bitton Sings Piaf

Naomi Pfefferman December 2, 1999

Raquel Bitton was 22, her first love affair over, when she reached into her father\’s dusty old box of 33\’s and pulled out an Edith Piaf album. \”I thought I would never fall in love again,\” says the chanteuse, now 38, who previously had spurned what she perceived as her father\’s \”old-fashioned\” music.\nBut while locked in her room with a broken heart, Bitton avidly listened as the late French icon sang of love and resilience. I thought, \’My God, she is talking about me,\’\” recalls the Moroccan-born Jew. \”And I knew I had found my voice.\”

The Insider

Michael Aushenker December 2, 1999

Joshua Hammer\’s book is called \”Chosen by God: A Brother\’s Journey\” (Hyperion Press), and while the titular journey refers to his brother, it may very well apply to Hammer himself.\nIn Newsweek\’s Nov. 8th issue, Hammer — a foreign correspondent who will become the magazine\’s Berlin bureau chief in January — gave the nation a window into his life. In an excerpt from \”Chosen\” Hammer recounted his quest to reconnect with Tony, his estranged younger brother. During their time apart, while Hammer had traveled the world covering war and political unrest, Tony had become Tuvia, a \”Torah Jew\” with a wife and sprawling family, entrenched in an ultra-Orthodox lifestyle

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