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25 March 2008
Almost Snuck Past You!
In case his name didn’t give it away, now you know: Josh Radnor is Jewish.
Profiled in The Forward on March 12, Radnor reveals that he grew up in Bexley, Ohio, and attended the Columbus Torah Academy through the 8th grade. He also spent a year in Israel in 1997, studying on the Livnot U’Lehibanot program.
“Wait, [...]
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20 March 2008
Rabbis’ New Role: Wedding Crashers
While those in the Internet reading community may not be aware, Brooklyn rabbis have recently banned marriage. I went undercover to find the story, and I now present my first piece of investigative journalism.
Rabbis Ban Marriage: Cite Promiscuity as Reason
Yet Another Jewneric Exclusive by staff writer, David Gertler
A group of 178 of Ultra-Orthodox rabbis [...]
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7 March 2008
Hey Lebowski Fest, I’m Shomer Effing Shabbos
This week in Chicago, fans of the Academy Award Winning Coen Brothers will gather to pay homage to what is arguably their most popular film. Lebowski Fest, a celebration of all things Lebowski, is a yearly event that first began in Louisville as a way of celebrating The Big Lebowski. The main event of the [...]
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29 February 2008
Award Winning Israeli Director Dan Katzir Releases New Movie Trailer
Award winning independent director Dan Katzir has released a trailer for his new movie, Yiddish Theater: A Lover Story. The film had its theatrical release in LA, NYC and Tel Aviv, Israel at the end of 2007, and had a special showing at Laemmle’s Monica and Town Center Encino in early January 2008.
The film is [...]
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22 February 2008
God Bless Atheists, or, How to Find Faith in Colorful Moving Pictures
Many television shows seem to have a heavy religious component. Nowhere is this more evident than in the recent slew of science fiction that has invaded the airwaves over the past few years. If you pull reality television and unscripted television off the list (translate: game shows with bugs and game shows with bald men, [...]
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14 February 2008
Oscar Award Winning Coen Brothers Pick Their Next Film
Though the Coen brothers have made their careers by writing and directing movies, their recent film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men is the work most likely to win them an Oscar for Best Picture. The departure from self-written black comedy has lead brothers Joel and Ethan to their greatest success since [...]
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14 February 2008
Spielberg’s Advisory Message to Beijing
The term “Never Again” is not just empty rhetoric for Steven Spielberg.
Spielberg, the Oscar-winning director of “Schindler’s List” and “Munich”, withdrew as an artistic adviser to the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The withdrawal is in direct response to China’s financial support, weapons trade, and inaction with respect to its [...]
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5 February 2008
Keep Monopoly From Being Monopolized! …Or Something…
My own delightful alliteration notwithstanding, there seems to be a bit of democracy being introduced to the Monopoly process. Parker Brothers has announced that there will be a new, internationally themed version of Monopoly. Happily, instead of restricting the streets and businesses to American playboy towns (as the original Atlantic City) or other, cheesier renditions [...]
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3 February 2008
The Super Bowl Commute: A Lesson Learned
As the morning of the Super Bowl has arrived, two distinct groups have made themselves known. No, I am not talking about the Giants and the Patriots. These two colossal titans are “The Sports Nuts vs. The Commercial Nuts.” While sports fans all over the world are getting ready to watch a romping on the [...]
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28 January 2008
Religion vs Theology, Or, The Silver Screen vs The Written Word
Last night, while I was eating dinner, my roommate turned on Eretz Nehederet (A Wonderful Country). I watched, laughed, and laughed some more. But immediately after the program was over, a thought-provoking interview came on, Ilana Dayan interviewing Joseph Cedar, the American-born Israeli director of the Oscar-nominated movie Beaufort.
As I had seen Beaufort [...]
