Beyond matzah and couscous
Ryan E. Smith
November 17, 2011
Ataste of Israel is no farther away than your local grocery store — and not just in the kosher aisle.
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Leisure
Spielberg in talks to direct Moses film
Jewish Journal
November 17, 2011
Steven Spielberg is in talks to direct a movie about the life of Moses.
In N.Y. play, echoes of anti-Semitic discrimination and the horrors of an African war
Jewish Journal
November 16, 2011
At the start of “Rash,” Jenni Wolfson appears onstage in a green peasant skirt and khaki top to the sound of cascading gunfire. Her long brown hair is unceremoniously pulled back with a black scrunchie. From a trunk she pulls out a flak jacket and puts it on.
Jewish teen rapper’s album tops Billboard chart [VIDEO]
Jewish Journal
November 16, 2011
A Jewish teen rapper has had his first album debuted at the top of Billboard 200 chart.\n
Avner’s ‘Prime Ministers’ to be adapted for two U.S. films
Tom Tugend
November 16, 2011
Two American producer-directors, on opposite coasts, are in the process of turning Yehuda Avner’s book “The Prime Ministers” into separate films.
Casspi signs with Maccabi Tel Aviv
Jewish Journal
November 15, 2011
Omri Casspi of the NBA\’s Cleveland Cavaliers has signed with his former Israeli team, Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Licensed to kvell: The return of Oy-Oy 7
Jewish Journal
November 11, 2011
Have I got a secret agent for you! When Hamas is smuggling missiles, and Iranians are building A-bombs deep underground, to whom can Israel turn? 007? No way. He’s busy playing baccarat or keeping the world from being fried by space lasers. He hasn’t time for the Middle East.
Film equates abortion to the Holocaust
Jewish Journal
November 10, 2011
The Anti-Defamation League has condemned a film that compares abortion in the United States to the Holocaust.
Canadian government helps fund kosher food safety
Jewish Journal
November 10, 2011
Canada\’s federal government will help fund the safety of kosher food products.
Spend Shabbat with the senator
Jonathan Kirsch
November 9, 2011
A joke was told about U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman during the 2000 presidential campaign. Not only was Lieberman the first Jew to run for vice president, but he was a famously observant one. “If you elect Joe Lieberman,” the joke went, “he will be on the job 24/6.”
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