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Eat pray love, Israel style

Orit Arfa October 19, 2010

Admit it, ladies. When you read Elizabeth Gilbert’s best-selling memoir, “Eat Pray Love,” there were moments when you wanted to trade places with Gilbert as she gorged herself on Italian yummies, mined her soul in an Indian ashram and fell in love with a strapping Brazilian in Bali. But if you have a Zionist bent like me, you probably would rather spend your money in the Holy Land. Fortunately, the Jewish state can provide an “Eat Pray Love” experience without the Jewish guilt. Israelis are consumed by wanderlust, importing the best of what they find in the tastiest, most spiritual and most romantic places in the world.

Showbiz bus brings Israel to Hollywood youth

Jewish Journal October 19, 2010

Over the past decade, Taglit-Birthright Israel has provided Jewish young adults with the opportunity to visit Israel at no cost. For many — more than 230,000 so far — it has been the trip of a lifetime: a chance to visit Israel for 10 days and make connections to their Jewish heritage and their Israeli peers. This past summer, The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles’ Young Entertainment Division, which sponsors Birthright trips each year, created a special trip — dubbed the Showbiz Bus — designed for young L.A. Jews working in or studying for a career in the entertainment industry to visit Israel on a Birthright tour.

Israeli hotel chefs create a culinary revolution

Jewish Journal October 19, 2010

Gone are the days when visiting American tourists were satisfied being served a colorless, uninspired boiled chicken in an Israeli hotel dining room. Today, when tourists sit down to breakfast or dinner in a five-star hotel in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv or Eilat, they are virtually guaranteed colorful kosher culinary experiences comparable to those of the finest restaurants in Los Angeles, New York or Paris. As if to underscore the quantum leap in the Israeli kitchen, Israel’s Channel 10 recently televised a local take of the popular reality TV show “Iron Chef.” In the Israeli version, a top-ranked Parisian chef was flown to the Jewish state to challenge local hotel and restaurant chefs in an array of steamy cook-offs. Much to the Frenchman’s surprise, his Israeli counterparts were more than a match for his culinary expertise.

Noa Tishby’s Israel

Danielle Berrin October 19, 2010

Noa Tishby is considered one of Israel’s best exports. The multihyphenate model-actress-producer has lived in Los Angeles for nearly a decade, bringing Hollywood gems like the HBO series “In Treatment” from Israel to the United States, where her career is on fire. But when we talked to her about Israel, she assured us there’s no place like home. Here are Tishby’s not-to-be-missed Holy Land hot spots.

Israelis in Hollywood

Danielle Berrin October 13, 2010

Jews are always talking about how Israel needs better PR — in Hebrew, hasbara, a term that connotes something between promotion and propaganda — so it’s worth asking, with so many Israelis working in Hollywood, what are they doing about it?

A fond farewell to comedian Robert Schimmel

Jewish Journal September 15, 2010

“I was in the oncologist’s office with my parents and my wife, and he said, ‘There’s Hodgkin’s disease and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and you have non-Hodgkin’s.’ And I said, ‘You know, that’s just my luck. I got the one that’s not named after the guy.’ And he laughed, and he said, ‘You’re going to be OK.’ And I said, ‘How do you know?’ And he said, ‘Because of your attitude … you’re who you are and you’re finding humor.’ And he said that’s a healthy thing. … And that’s the way I choose to look at it. You know, I can be miserable. I mean, I have the ultimate trump card: I lost a child. I can fail at anything and use him for an excuse. And instead, it forces me to do the opposite.”\n— Robert Schimmel

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