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Hasidic Jew Must Leave Natalie Portman Movie

Not many public would leave a role as Natalie Portman’s husband in a film, but Williamsburg resident Abe Karpen has to do just that. Karpen, who is a Hasidic Jew, told the Daily News, “It’s not acceptable in my community. It’s a lot of pressure I am getting. They [the rabbis] didn’t like the co…

The Boston Jewish Film Festival

The 19th Annual Boston Jewish Film Festival
Now through November 11
At almost every theater in town
Official site

Sometimes film festivals aim to achieve a specific tone each year, or they provide selections that fit neatly into certain genres. This year’s Boston Jewish Film Festival se…

Barbie-Bratz feud: Two Jews and a shifting definition of beauty

NEW YORK (JTA) — Depending on whom you ask, Bratz are odd-looking multiethnic dolls with big eyes and skimpy clothes — or they’re, like, the coolest things ever.

The dolls — with their “passion for fashion” demonstrated through midriff-baring tops and micro-mini skirts — have been cri…

Adolph Hitler listened to music by Jewish musicians

A newly discovered box of Hitler’s records included music by Jewish composers or played by Jewish musicians.

Kept in a box for 62 years in the attic of a dacha near Moscow, the collection of gramophone discs had been been taken from Hitler’s Wilhelmstrasse bunker in Berlin by a Red Army reconn…

Israeli singer Liel blends pop with peace - Video

Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, Britney Spears¦ These young women have achieved fame and fortune but just cant seem to cope, just cant seem to get their priorities straight nor have their names in the news for anything thats not negative.

Then theres 18-year-old Israeli pop st…

The emperor of jazz from Jaffa

NEW YORK - Paul McCartney’s recent performance in New York ahead of his new album “Memory nearly Full” was one of those events that many New Yorkers were dying to attend but only a few managed to get into. Seven hundred illustrious souls were invited, and the critics were enthusiastic. It is not eve…

Surroundings / From classroom sketches to luxury villas

At architecture school end-of-year exhibits, graduates present impressive projects that deal with the burning issues of Israeli and universal architecture. The students demonstrate environmental and social commitment, conduct comprehensive research, attend thoroughly to complex subjects, intervene w…

Thirty-three days in pursuit of the truth

All eyes turn on Annette Levy-Willard as she strides into Joz and Loz, a Tel Aviv restaurant, late at night. Her tight, short dress, blond hair and coquettish behavior all compose an impression. Levy-Willard, senior correspondent and op-ed page editor for the French daily Liberation, has been in Isr…

Harry Potter and the Shabbos fine

 

While Israel is commonly called the Jewish State, many residents of the country are not followers of the faith. And among the Jews who call Israel home, a significant percentage are not shomer Shabbos or strictly observant.

So, when a story appeared on CNN two days before the international …

Wine and Spirits / A tempting twist on Chardonnay

The French have an old and odd saying: He who drinks only Meursault will never be a drunkard. Although that claim is probably unfounded, no one questions that the vineyards of Meursault, a large village in the Cote de Beaune district of Burgundy, produce some of the finest white wines in the world. …

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