When National Geographic Channel’s reality television series “Church Rescue” featured the Pacific Jewish Center (PJC) in Venice Beach last month, the synagogue’s leader, Rabbi Eliyahu Fink, praised the episode.
J.P. Rosenbaum, a Jewish construction manager from New York, received the final rose from The Bachelorette, Ashley Hebert.
Sixteen strangers are left on a wilderness island to fend for themselves. They endure starvation, infestation, exposure to the elements. Each night they gather in council to vote one of their company off the island. Finally, only two are left. The castoffs are brought back as jury to choose the sole survivor. Conniving, manipulation, betrayal, deceit – that\’s entertainment! And 48 million Americans stopped to watch. A media sensation, \”Survivor\” made the covers of Newsweek and Time and the headlines in every newspaper.
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