Zvika Klein and Shmuel Rosner discuss the World Zionist Organization elections – who can vote and why you should or should not care about it.
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One well-known example of “chutzpah” is someone who murders his parents, then pleads for mercy from the court because he is an orphan. Watching Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu respond to the announcement that he would be indicted on three separate charges of fraud, bribery and breach of trust, I couldn’t help thinking, with all due respect, “This man really does have chutzpah.”
When I say, “all due respect,” I mean it. In his long and storied career, Netanyahu has made important contributions to Israel. But there is a bad wind blowing in the world at present — a wind that threatens to destroy the democratic norms that once seemed destined to sweep the globe. These norms and values are some of the best things humanity has going for it. Over the past several years, Netanyahu has become an avatar of this authoritarian trend.
In his paranoid and self-pitying performance on national television soon after Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced the indictments, Netanyahu crossed an important line. “This is a coup,” he said more than once. His message is that the indictments are part of a plot by unidentified “leftists” to wrest him from power. The police and the justice system, he said, are not searching for the truth. They are out to get him. Why? Because they want to return Israel to what it was before he came to power and made Israel big and strong. They want to make Israel weak and small again.
Authoritarian politics takes hold when a leader begins to identify himself and his political or personal interests with the good of the state itself. This belief is drastically different from that of Yitzhak Rabin, who resigned as prime minister during his first term because of a far less serious charge, and Ehud Olmert, who resigned before indictment, saying, “I am proud to be a citizen of a country where the prime minister can be investigated like a regular citizen. The prime minister is not above the law.”
But Netanyahu is willing to tear down the house of democracy, with all its checks and balances, to save himself and his rule.
In his paranoid and self-pitying performance on national television soon after Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced the indictments, Netanyahu crossed an important line.
There is nothing more telling — or more disturbing — than listening to Netanyahu pronounce the word “Smolanim,” Hebrew for leftists. He says it with a sneer, his intonation shot through with contempt. Who are these “leftists”? Over the past three years, since the corruption investigations have begun, “leftist” has come to mean anyone who endangers Netanyahu’s continued tenure as prime minister.
Moshe Yaalon, former chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), who Netanyahu appointed as his defense minister? Leftist! Ret. Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, who Netanyahu appointed chief of staff of the IDF? Leftist! Mandelblit, who, as chief military advocate for the IDF, tore apart the Goldstone Report and who Netanyahu appointed cabinet secretary and attorney general? Leftist! Or at the very least, a weak person who has become a tool for leftists. Shai Nitzan, the state attorney whose appointment Netanyahu approved? Leftist! Avigdor Lieberman, who may be many things but is certainly not a leftist? Leftist! The Arab Joint List, whose most urgent request has been for Israeli police to take control of Arab cities and stop a crime wave? Worse than leftists. Terrorists!
At the heart of Netanyahu’s strange television defense is an internal paradox — and this is the chutzpah part. The attorney general and the police commissioner Netanyahu is accusing of a “leftist” coup against him are his people. The state’s witnesses — including Ari Harow, Netanyahu’s former chief of staff, and Nir Hefetz, his personal media adviser — are people from his close inner circle.
If I were a TV journalist, I would love to ask Netanyahu what it means about his leadership that all these people he appointed or hired turned against him. The truth is that authoritarian leadership thrives on being able to do two things at once: increasingly consolidate power while maintaining that one is under constant threat from named or unnamed enemies.
Netanyahu has done both.
It’s a sad day for Israel when the prime minister is indicted for corruption, but it’s also a glorious day for democracy.
He’s simultaneously been prime minister, foreign minister and defense minister. He’s drained the Foreign Ministry of its funding and pulled its traditional powers into the prime minister’s office. Although the right has been in power for 30 of the past 42 years — and Netanyahu for 13 of these — the country’s institutions, according to Netanyahu, are shot through with leftist enemies, now engaged in nothing less than a coup against him.
Thankfully, the rule of law is stronger in Israel than it is in Turkey, China, Iran or Russia. Mandelblit, far from being a coward, has stood up to a bullying prime minister. Tellingly, the protests meant to show support for Netanyahu after the indictment were tepid. Some voices in the Likud already are saying: Thank you, Bibi, for your service, but now it’s time to go.
Netanyahu should follow his own advice from 2009, when he urged Olmert, who was facing indictment, to step down because a prime minister could not effectively run the country “sunk up to his neck in investigations.”
It’s a sad day for Israel when the prime minister is indicted for corruption, but it’s also a glorious day for democracy. In our Brave New World, where powerful new tools can manipulate public opinion, and increasing uncertainty are boons for prospective dictators, the fight for democracy is just beginning. We give thanks that with God’s help, Israel’s rule of law is holding, and democracy, with all its warts, is alive and kicking in Israel today.
Micha Odenheimer is a journalist, rabbi and social entrepreneur.
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More than 100 Democrats in the House of Representatives urged Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to rescind his Nov. 18 announcement that Israeli settlements in the West Bank aren’t illegal in a Nov. 21 letter, the Jerusalem Post reports.
The letter, which included Reps. Andy Levin (D-Mich.), Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Karen Bass (D-Calif.) as signatories, contends that reversing the policy will damage the efforts for peace in the Israel-Palestinian conflict “because settlement expansion into the occupied West Bank makes a contiguous Palestinian state inviable, jeopardizing Israel’s future as a secure, democratic homeland for the Jewish people. The State Department’s unilateral reversal on the status of settlements, without any clear legal justification, therefore has offered a tacit endorsement of settlements, their expansion, and associated demolitions of Palestinian homes.”
They argued that Israeli settlements in the West Bank violate Article 49 of the Geneva Convention stating that a country can’t send its citizens to reside in occupied territory.
“In ignoring international law, this administration has undermined America’s moral standing and sent a dangerous message to those who do not share our values: human rights and international law, which have governed the international order and protected U.S. troops and civilians since 1949, no longer apply,” the letter states. “If the U.S. unilaterally abandons international and human rights law, we can only expect a more chaotic and brutal twenty-first century for Americans and our allies, including the Israeli people.”
Pompeo said in his Nov. 18 announcement, “The establishment of Israeli civilian settlements in the West Bank is not, per se, inconsistent with international law. There will never be a judicial resolution to the conflict, and arguments about who is right and who is wrong as a matter of international law will not bring peace.” In 1978, the State Department issued a legal opinion saying that settlements are illegal.
J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami praised the letter in a statement, saying that the move is intended to thwart efforts toward a two-state solution.
“It’s extremely important that leading members of Congress are making clear that this decision undermines human rights, jeopardizes both US and Israeli interests, and flouts international law,” Ben-Ami said.
Americans for Peace Now Director of Policy Relations and Government Relations Debra Shushan similarly tweeted, “Excellent letter. Thanks for your leadership, @RepAndyLevin & co-signers, too numerous to tag. For the 329 non-signers (incl. 127 Dems): Do you oppose int’l law generally or just favor an Israel exception? Do you think settlements & occupation are in US interest — or Israel’s?”
Excellent letter. Thanks for your leadership, @RepAndyLevin & co-signers, too numerous to tag.
For the 329 non-signers (incl 127 Dems): Do you oppose int'l law generally or just favor an Israel exception? Do you think settlements & occupation are in US interest — or Israel's? https://t.co/CYceNkmwBO
— Debra Shushan 🌻 דבורה שושן 🌻 دبرا شوشان (@DrShushan) November 22, 2019
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, on the other hand, tweeted, “Jewish communities on the West Bank are not illegal. Located on disputed territory subject to negotiations between Israel and Palestinians. When Palestinians are prepared to negotiate peace and recognize legitimacy of Jewish neighbors there will be peace.”
Jewish communities on the West Bank are not illegal. Located on disputed territory subject to negotiations between Israel and Palestinians. When Palestinians are prepared to negotiate peace and recognize legitimacy of Jewish neighbors there will be peace https://t.co/ZBMBytm3xz
— SimonWiesenthalCntr (@simonwiesenthal) November 25, 2019
Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton Klein and National Chairman Mark Levenson also criticized the letter, arguing that Jordan occupied the West Bank from 1949 to 1967; during that timeframe, “Jordan was never internationally recognized as having a rightful claim to these areas, and never established a Palestinian Arab state. No Arab group even made a claim for a Palestinian state in Judea/Samaria during Jordan’s illegal occupation,” the ZOA said. They added that the 1994 Israel-Jordan treaty firmly established the West Bank as Israeli territory.
Klein and Levenson also argued that the settlements are not a barrier to peace.
“The Palestinian Authority turned down over-generous peace offers of a Palestinian-Arab three times during the last 19 years, because the PA refused to give up its genocidal goal of completely destroying Israel,” they said. “The real ‘obstacles to peace’ are that the PA continues to preach hatred and violence towards Jews in every conceivable venue (schools, media, mosques, sports teams, etc.); pays Arabs to murder Jews; and seeks to annihilate the Jewish state and her people.”
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A Jewish man thanked a Muslim woman for intervening when a man was harassing him and his son.
In a Nov. 22 video, a man on the London Metro told a Jewish man and his son that they were part of the “Synagogue of Satan.” The Muslim woman, identified as Asma Shuweikh, interjected and told the man to relax and be mindful of the fact that there are children around.
Around noon I witnessed appalling anti Semitic abuse towards this Jewish Family on the northern line. Fair play to other passengers who stood up to him. If you recognise the guy please report to @metpoliceuk pic.twitter.com/YxzwAnDqTJ
— Chris Atkins (@scatatkins) November 22, 2019
A man has been arrested in connection to the incident.
The Jewish man, who didn’t want to be identified, said in a Campaign Against Antisemitism statement, “We are certain that without [Shuweikh’s] intervention and distraction, he would have continued his abuse which could have escalated to physical violence.”
Shuweikh told Jewish News that the Jewish man met with her for coffee on Nov. 25 and gave her flowers as a sign of gratitude.
“It was lovely,” Shuweikh said. “We’re going to keep in touch.”
Shuweikh told BBC Radio on Nov. 24, “When he started talking to the child I thought, ‘no, I have to say something’. As a mother of two, it’s appalling, I can’t sit back and watch that happen.”
Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt tweeted, “Asma Shuweikh, the Muslim woman who intervened to defend this Jewish family from #antiSemitic abuse in London, is a hero. Thank you for your bravery, your ally-ship and for showing the power ordinary people have every day in defeating hate.”
Asma Shuweikh, the Muslim woman who intervened to defend this Jewish family from #antiSemitic abuse in London, is a hero.
Thank you for you bravery, your ally-ship and for showing the power ordinary people have every day in defeating hate. https://t.co/8eQrBlrKyj— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) November 24, 2019
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My wife Adi is a force to be reckoned with, and on this, our 6th Wedding Anniversary, I continue to remind myself never to take her for granted….because we each manage to do exactly that with the best things of our lives. (And now that I am fortunate enough to be a blogger for the Jewish Journal, why not fully utilize the platform and give my voice the microphone this message deserves!)
When I met my wife I had never had a proper career, and yet she was already utilizing her Masters in social work to help create chaplaincy programming for hospitals and clergy, working in the Kalsman Institute at Hebrew Union College. This programming is still used today throughout the country, across all denominations. I was in nursing school when she started raising millions of dollars for the American Friends of Magen David Adom (the Israeli Red Cross). I finally had a fulltime job, contributing to society as a nurse, while she was raising yet millions more for the largest hospital in the entire Middle East (Sheba Medical Center). And after years of scary conversations, she made the brave decision to put all of that amazing work on hold, while doing the absolute hardest job of her life: raising our wonderful daughter Natalia full-time.
She put so much of herself into caring about each job, she would always tell me that she could never work on any project she did not fully believe in, and there were times she even left lucrative opportunities to chase her passions. And she brings that same inner passion to our child. Case in point, when she looked for play that focuses on the outdoors for Natalia, she was surprised to find out that there was nothing available for babies and toddlers within miles. Most sane people would move on and find the next best thing, or possibly just take their child to a friend’s garden. Not Adi. She found an organization named Tinkergarten that teaches outdoor sensory play to little ones and applied for the job as a teacher JUST to provide a local class for our daughter. Now other parents are reaping the benefits of her own passionate motivations, and we are better for it.
Taking life and the beautiful things within it for granted is so easy. But every now and then we should each take a few steps back, and appreciate the good things we have. Monday I may very well forget to smile when I first arrive tired from work, and I may easily tell you about my day before asking about your own – I hope not, but our flaws and imperfections have a nasty way of remaining the default – but for today, on our anniversary, I appreciate you entirely.
Boaz Hepner grew up in LA in Pico/Robertson and now lives here with his wife and baby girl. Thus, the neighborhood is very important to him. He helped clean up the area by adding dozens of trash cans that can still be seen from Roxbury to La Cienega. When he is not working as a Registered Nurse in Santa Monica, he can be found with his wife and daughter enjoying his passions: his multitude of friends, movies, poker and traveling.
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Columbia University’s College Student Council (CCSC) voted on the evening of Nov. 24 to have the campus vote on a referendum calling on the university to divest from companies that conduct business with Israel.
The Columbia Spectator reports that the final vote was 25 in favor and 12 against. During the discussion before the vote, Aryeh: Columbia Student Association Communications Director Jonathan Cohen argued that the Israel-Palestinian conflict should be discussed through events and debates, not “through a question, through a referendum shoved down students’ throats.”
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) member Siri Ketha said, “Not allowing this question to pass would be a direct impediment to the so-called dialogue you wish to foster. How could dialogue be fostered if this conversation keeps getting confined to this room specifically?”
Anti-Defamation League New York and New Jersey Regional Director Evan Bernstein denounced the vote in a statement.
“The founding goals of the [boycott, divestment and sanctions] movement and many of the strategies it employs are anti-Semitic and are counterproductive to a pathway to Israel-Palestinian peace,” Bernstein said. “We stand with Columbia Hillel and the students across the Columbia campus who are rightly concerned by this development.”
In regards to the @Columbia College Student Council vote this weekend which allows for a campus-wide referendum on #BDS our Regional Director @bernstein_evan speaks out. Full statement below: pic.twitter.com/qyXYQ4zC4x
— ADL New York / New Jersey (@ADL_NYNJ) November 25, 2019
Students Supporting Israel (SSI) at Columbia University wrote in a Facebook that members of SJP and Jewish Voice for Peace started chanting “from the river to the sea Palestine will be free” after the vote.
“For many observers, this chant might seem like an ordinary victory chant but, in fact, this is the core of the conflict,” they wrote. “These groups are not asking to foster peace, but to erase the only Jewish state, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. This is a call for genocide.”
Columbia’s SSI chapter added that they will be vigilant in opposing the referendum.
“SSI, along with other pro-Israel groups on our campus will inform students on the antisemitic repercussions of this referendum, its negation to real dialogue, and will not let this pass the next stage,” they wrote. “We urge students to see that this will only divide our campus, will only being hatred to our campus, will only harm our Jewish and pro-Israel students and, most importantly, that it is completely unjust.”
StandWithUs Executive Director of Campus Affairs Rena Nasar First said in a statement to the Journal, “CCSC blatantly violated its own constitution by approving a referendum question that is clearly not objective, fair, or impartial. Despite this institutional bias, we know students opposing BDS are on the right side of history and will stand up for what is right on campus.”
The university released a statement on Nov. 24 after the vote saying that decisions on divestment are made through the Advisory Council on Socially Responsible Investing’s advice, not through a campus-wide referendum.
A date for the vote has not yet been announced.
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WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — Polish-Jewish director Agnieszka Holland and American journalist Anne Applebaum were honored with the country’s Order of Princess Olga of the 3rd Degree for “telling the truth about the tragedy of the Great Famine in Ukraine.”
President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the awards on Saturday on the occasion of the Day of Great Famine Victims.
The Great Famine in Ukraine was artificially induced in 1932-1933 by the Soviet Union to punish Ukrainians who opposed the forced collectivization of agriculture. It is estimated that between 3 million and up to 10 million people died of hunger during this time.
Holland is the director of the film “Citizen Jones,” which tells the story of journalist Gareth Jones, who was the first to describe the Great Famine in Western media. Other Western journalists – particularly those linked to the communist authorities, such as Walter Duranty, who was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for reports from communist Russia – then considered his information to be untrue. Jones was soon killed, believed to be by Kremlin collaborators.
Applebaum, a Washington Post columnist, is the author of the book “Red Famine,” in which she shows that the Great Famine was the largest genocide of the 20th century after the Holocaust. In 2004 she received the Pulitzer Prize for the book “Gulag.”
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(JTA) — The ousted CEO of WeWork Adam Neumann believed he “was even capable of solving the world’s thorniest problems,” including the Arab-Israeli conflict.
The Israeli-born Neumann, who stepped down as WeWork CEO in September, helped President Donald Trump’s senior advisor and Jewish son-in-law Jared Kushner on his Mideast peace effort, Vanity Fair reported in a Nov. 21 article.
Neumann assigned WeWork’s director of development, Roni Bahar, to hire an advertising firm to produce a video for Kushner showing what an economically transformed West Bank and Gaza would look like, the magazine reported, citing two unnamed sources. Bahar said he only advised on the video and no WeWork resources were used. Kushner used the video during the Bahrain conference which launched the economic portion of the Trump administration’s peace plan.
Neumann also told one investor that he’d convinced Rahm Emanuel to run for president in 2020 on the “WeWork Agenda.” He told colleagues that he was saving the women of Saudi Arabia by working with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to offer women coding classes, the magazine reported. In another meeting, Neumann said three people were going to save the world: bin Salman, Jared Kushner, and Neumann, according to the report. This was before the death of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Neumann in a meeting with George W. Bush’s former national security adviser Stephen Hadley said that the bin Salman mess could be sorted out if bin Salman had the right mentor. He said that mentor was himself.
The Neumanns were heavily involved in the Kabbalah movement and made the mystical tradition part of the office culture, including scheduling meetings on the 18th day of the month, seen as a more auspicious time. His mother told an Israeli station last month that Neumann had joined the Chabad movement and become religious.
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Q: How do you organize yourself energetically if you have to work on two different characters? I found in a recent auditioning experience I became paralyzed in the face of this, and that made me angry.
So often actors are balancing more than one role at a time, from beginning actors in classes, to professional actors auditioning, all the way up to an actor who is doing a TV show and a play and a movie at once.
It’s interesting that you ask how to organize this “energetically”. I think energy is an important consideration in the actor’s work, and I’m glad you are aware of that. This also tells me something about your approach, which is that you are “channeling” your characters. It seems to me that you are opening yourself up to a spiritual and intuitive understanding of the character. This intuitive approach to character is wonderful. I think it’s evident that some of the best work comes from actors with this ability. Often times, people credit Meryl Streep with “channeling” her characters. What this means is that you are allowing your intuitive nature to find connection with the character and bring her into you. This is a wholistic approach to acting, and it’s wonderful. But you must ground yourself in the script and the circumstances, for this energy source to really serve the story you’re in.
Sometimes, actors with a heightened sensitivity and intuition rely on that to interpret their roles. Then if you have more than one role, this method becomes unreliable. You need to create anchors informed by the script to switch in an out of, in concert with your gifts, in order to be consistent. This is where a technique helps you. Let’s consider some ways to ground the characters, so that you’re not solely dependent on your energy to guide you:
• You are your character. Whatever is going on with you today, emotionally, psychologically, energetically, becomes part of the character. So, you always have that base. That is a similarity in both characters – your state of being.
• Then each character has something to do. You now have to do that specific thing. Get specific on what that is and bring that into your body. Sense how your need lives in your body. Raise the stakes on it. If it’s not strong enough personally, go back and find another reason why you need to accomplish your action in the scene. You must find an essential reason why you have to play the character, say what she says, do what she does. If you find a personal enough reason for why you need to do what you do in the scene, your energy will support your action.
• If the need is truly activating you, natural emotional response and behavior will follow.
• Create a personal relationship with the environment, the relationship to the person you’re talking to, and the moment before you start talking. Of course, you get the information from the script first, but then what are they to you? Create the place, the person you’re talking to, and the moment before, so that they feed your purpose in the scene.
Once you’ve created this for yourself, you will sense a visceral state of being. You will feel like you really need to do something. I want you to memorize that sensation. How does it live in the body?
Then let it go.
Now craft the other character the same way.
Sometimes you will find that the need can be the same! This can be quite convenient on days when you have more than one audition, because then you can just stay connected to that need, but change the circumstances: you will be in a different place, talking to a different person, and have a different moment before. Now with this new “reality”, you will feel a different experience. Be aware of where you feel the sensation of the active need in your body, in this character, and memorize this state.
Now, you know how each character lives in your body. You can start from the sensation of the active personal need you’ve created. You have crafted a personal relationship with the circumstances of each scene. Practice moving back and forth between the two states of being you have created.
Engaging in the process above will break you through to the other side of paralysis. You will have distinct touchstones that will ignite you into action.
Sometimes our attachment to success, or elements of our life or day, can stir emotion. Remember, you are your character. Anything going on with you, is also part of the reality you’re creating. So maybe it’s there to create more dimension. Never suppress your awarenesses or emotions, use them.
“All action in the theatre must have inner justification, be logical, coherent, and real.”- Stanislavski
“Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.”– Einstein
Please send your specific questions about the art of acting to staytuned@gmail.com and Kymberly will respond to a different question each week! There are no invalid questions, as long as they pertain to your craft and life as an actor.
Kymberly Harris is an actor’s director. She specializes in character-driven stories, whether the genre is drama, comedy, thriller, or action. Her extensive experience as a method acting coach to professional actors of all ages has led actors to seek her out to direct them towards their best performances in film, television, and theatre projects.
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Please find my three recently nominated stories below as well as my six nominations from the Southern California Journalism Awards over the past three years. Thank you to the Los Angeles Press Club and especially to Chris Palmeri, Club President, and Diana Ljungaeus, Executive Director
Thank you to my editor, Richard Rys, and to the fantastic female founders who shared their stories with me: Karen Murphy O’Brien, Florence Quinn, Jennifer Hawkins and Victoria King. I also really appreciate the eight other female founders I interviewed for Women’s History Month who all appear in my Saturday Evening Post article: 12 Travel Experts Share Their Bucket List Destinations
Thank you to KTLA TV and my incredible and sparkly producer, Kimberly Cornell! My KTLA TV segment about Ogden, Utah for Valentine’s Day was a finalist nominee in the the 2019 Southern California Journalism Awards. Click here to watch all my KTLA TV Travel segments!
Thank you to my magnificent Ms. Magazine editor, Carmen Rios, for all of her help and support with my writing, events and covering conferences including the United Nations and Gates Foundation Goalkeepers in NYC! I love being on the Ms. Magazine digital site and writing for the print magazine too! I hope you will learn more about my bucket list trip to walk with the Polar Bears with Churchill Wild in my articles and videos.
My three nominations for 2018 Southern California Journalism Awards
At the 2017 Southern California Journalism Awards, I was the 2nd place winner for my Print Column in the Jewish Journal, “A Journey to Freedom Over Three Passovers.”
I was also a finalist in 2017 for Travel Reporting: with my story about Mongolia, “Mongolia: Land of Dunes & Moonrises.”
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* Stacy Perman, Los Angeles Times, “The number of women directing films is abysmal. Alma Har’el has a plan to change that” * Stacey Sommer, Brendan Kennedy, Caroline Pahl and Dexter Thomas, VICE News, “Pinkfong: The business behind the viral ‘Baby Shark’ hit”
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* Lisa Niver, Ms. Magazine, “Polar Bears Can’t Vote, So You Have To!” * Brian Steinberg, Variety, “Trump and Technology Force TV News Shake Up” * Chris Willman, Variety, “‘That’s From Disneyland!’: How a Collector’s Pop-Up Became a Must-See L.A. Destination”
F6a. Soft News Feature – Under 5 Minutes—Film/TV * Natalie Heltzel, Sebastian Doughty, Jennifer Laski, Stephanie Fischette, Carlos Medina, Hannah Carpenter, The Hollywood Reporter, “Trevor Noah Talks Jennifer Lopez, Bernie Sanders in ‘Fishing for Answers’ Cover Shoot Video” * KCET, Lost LA – “The Origin of the Universal Studios Hollywood Studio Tour” * Brendan Kennedy, Stacey Sommer and Gaby Wilson, VICE News, “An Emmy For Megan” * Doug Kolk, Michael Joseph James, KTLA 5 News, “Price is Right” * Lisa Niver, KTLA 5 Special Projects, “Countdown to Gold on KTLA TV for the Oscars with Lisa Niver”
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