The desert air was balmy and hot. The almost-full moon hung over palm trees and the fireflies glittered amid a spotlight\’s beam. More than 1,000 people sat on the blanketed stone bleachers of the outdoor amphitheater at Mineral Beach for the Passover Dead Sea Music Festival, waiting patiently for the Israeli trio, HaBanot Nechama (translated as \”Comfort Girls\”), to hit the stage.
Rami Kleinstein music video \’Winds of War\’ ( Hebrew)
In planning the May 10 celebratory \”Israel at 60\” megaconcert for Hollywood\’s Kodak Theatre, the producers went down the A-list of Jewish celebrities, requesting their presence at what is hoped to be the grandest celebration in Los Angeles of Israel\’s 60th year of independence.
The Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival will appropriately mark Israel\’s 60th anniversary with an opening film on the country\’s transition from British mandate to independent state.
Is there a more loaded word in the Arab-Israeli conflict than \”refugee\”
Pro-Israel doves are launching an initiative aimed at countering the influence of established Jewish organizations on Capitol Hill. In a conference call Tuesday, organizers announced the launch of J Street, a lobby outfit and a political action committee backed by some of the biggest names in the dovish pro-Israel community.
That means, \”Why is this night different from all other nights,\” in Sranan.
But what\’s Sranan, you ask? Sranan is the primary language spoken in South America\’s Suriname, which has one of the oldest Jewish populations on the American continent. Is is also spoken in Aruba, Netherlands and the Netherlands Antilles — with a total of 426,400 speakers today.
Nicholas Stoller remembers the day he joined the \”Jew-Tang Clan,\” the creative posse led by comedy wunderkind Judd Apatow (\”The 40-year-old Virgin,\” \”Knocked Up\”).\n\nApatow was interviewing the then-24-year-old writer for a job on his 2000 college sitcom, \”Undeclared.\”
When writer/director Morgan Spurlock (\”Super Size Me\”) discovered he was going to become a father two years ago, he was concerned about the tumultuous state of the world into which his child was being born. Spurlock\’s wish was to give his child a safer and more harmonious place to live. So, after a crash course in combat survival, the filmmaker set off on a journey through the Middle East to find the one man who has shaped the world\’s perception of that region in recent years: Osama bin Laden. The results of that quest are documented in his new film, \”Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?\”
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