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November 2, 2007
MUSIC VIDEO: Leah (Obama Girl) Kauffman — ‘Perfected: The Ann Coulter Song’
Jews need to be \’perfected,\’ says right-wing darling Ann Coulter. Not so fast, sings Leah \’Obama Girl\’ Kauffman in \’Perfected: The Ann Coulter Song\’ — a YouTube hit music video
UJ’s Levy crafts confab to celebrate authors
A new bookshelf, overflowing with volumes, testifies to Gady Levy\’s latest and perhaps most ambitious endeavor: the Celebration of Jewish Books, which begins on Monday and extends through an all-day festival on Sunday. The celebration will offer lectures and signings with 40 authors — including big names, such as Larry King, Michael Chabon, Kirk Douglas and Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket) — plus music and dance performances, food and a thousand titles for sale, provided by Borders and the Hebrew-language bookseller Steimatzky.\n
Books: Brits behaving badly
Interview with author Charlotte Mendelson about her novel \”When We Were Bad\”.
TV: Suze Orman isn’t all about the money — she has a spiritual side, too
Despite the fact that Orman has not been associated with Judaism in any traditional sense for decades, this search for purpose continues to inform her work. She says she is still a spiritually inquisitive person and that she has never stopped contemplating the concept of God.
Photography: A ‘Vanished’ Berlin through Roman Vishniac’s lens
Shortly after famed photographer Roman Vishniac died in 1990, his daughter Mara checked through his New York apartment. In the bottom drawer of a file cabinet she found a bundle of folders and envelopes labeled \”Berlin.\”Some 40 of the Berlin photos, first curated by Aubrey Pomerance at the Jewish Museum in Berlin, are now on exhibit through Dec. 14 at UCLA Hillel\’s Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts.