Unacceptable
Michael Tolkin
October 23, 2003
After The New Republic\’s Gregg Easterbrook wrote in his online column that Jewish executives in Hollywood "worship money above all else," he apologized.
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stereotypes
Q & A With Darren Star
Andrea King
September 18, 2003
Darren Star, the creator and executive producer of three of the last decade\’s most popular television phenomena — \”Beverly Hills, 90210,\” \”Melrose Place\” and the three time Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning HBO comedy series \”Sex and the City\” — is being honored Monday night with the Tisch Industry Leadership Award at the National Foundation for Jewish Culture\’s third annual Jewish Image Awards.
Jewish Trojans — Oxymoron No More
Rachel Brand
August 21, 2003
Today, just steps away from USC\’s fraternity row — which has historically been a symbol of the university\’s typically all-white culture — lies the new site of the campus Chabad House. The 6,500-square-foot Victorian home, which Chabad is in the process of renovating, will be the third site that the organization will occupy since outgrowing its first two locations in the past three years.
Meyer: Hero or Anti-Hero?
Naomi Pfefferman
January 9, 2003
\”A Jewish friend of mine loves \’The Sopranos,\’\” Italian American actor Joe Bologna said with a groan. \”I told him, \’How\’d you like to see a show called \”The Goldsteins\” about white-collar criminals and the biggest shyster is Izzy Goldstein?\”\n\nBologna isn\’t about to play Izzy, but he is the co-author and star of a monologue he said breaks ethnic and gangster stereotypes. In \”Meyer,\” he portrays Jewish mobster Meyer Lansky — previously depicted in films such as \”Bugsy\” (1991) — as both a ruthless thug and a pathetic alter-kacker. At the beginning of the play, the character sips Dr. Brown\’s Cel-Ray Soda and kvetches about Israel denying him citizenship under the Law of Return.
“Dream” a Reality for Ethiopian Teens
Sharon Schatz Rosenthal
October 10, 2002
For three months in 1984, Routhy Wonvimgen\’s family walked from Ethiopia to Sudan in order to reach Israel. \”They walked barefoot and had very little water or food,\” she said of her family\’s part in Operation Moses, one of Israel\’s efforts to help Ethiopian Jews.
When Worlds Collide
Michael Aushenker
July 4, 2002
Much has been written about Jewish talent working in the entertainment industry. But what happens when you\’re a sought-after Jewish writer who also happens to be observant?
Selling Israel to Progressive Latinos
Gustavo Arellano
June 27, 2002
Although progressives\’ cause-of-the-month is criticizing Israel\’s treatment of Palestinians, it has been endemic in the Latino left for years.
The Name Game
Teresa Strasser
June 27, 2002
When we were little, my brother and I realized that whenever we asked if someone was Jewish, my mother would answer by simply repeating their name, as if that said it all.
Messing Up Stereotypes
Naomi Pfefferman
May 2, 2002
When Debra Messing heard she\’d been cast as Woody Allen\’s girlfriend in his new romantic romp, \”Hollywood Ending,\” she shrieked.
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