The Israeli television invasion
The Forward's Rebecca Spence writes about Hollywood's growing interest in Israeli television shows:
As Hollywood executives roll out the red carpet for television shows imported from overseas, Israel is emerging as an unlikely new starlet.In the wake of this season's new HBO drama, "In Treatment" — the Israeli television hit remade for an American audience — a spate of fresh shows from the Jewish state is now making its way across the Atlantic.
"There is a land rush on Israeli properties right now," said independent producer David Himmelfarb, who has an exclusive deal with ABC Studios, the television production arm of The Walt Disney Company. "It's almost like a farm team for Hollywood, is what it's becoming," he said, referring to the Israeli television industry.
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One more incentive for peace: A Rami Kashou studio in Ramallah
Rami Kashou, the Ramallah-born fashion designer who finished a close second on Season 4 of Bravo's Project Runway, plays the checkpoint card in a Q & A with Jewcy.
What about [opening a studio] in your home country?I'd love to open up in more than one country, but with checkpoints in the Middle East, it could be hard. But it would be nice to have my work in different countries, to make it more accessible.
Here's a Project Runway montage of Kashou...
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An old newspaper and a new TV channel explore the Jewish-Rastafarian connection
The Forward has hooked up with The Jewish Channel to produce three shows: a round table featuring the paper's staffers, an interview show with J.J. Goldberg and a movie-themed program with arts & culture editor Alana Newhouse.
In one recent segment on Newhouse's show, she and the TJC crew looked at the Jewish-Rastafarian documentary Awake Zion.
http://tjctv.com/blogs/are-dreadlocks-the-new-peyos/
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Send in your videos (but only if you married out)
InterfaithFamily.com is holding its first-ever video contest...
We are looking for all types of videos, including but not limited to: wedding videos demonstrating interesting, engaging, interfaith wedding ceremonies; humorous videos dealing with interfaith issues regarding life-cycle events, holidays, and everyday life; interviews with people involved in interfaith relationships and how they are dealing with the issues they face; conflict resolution; cartoons; parodies (in good taste); and music videos. InterfaithFamily.com reserves the right in its sole discretion to decide which videos to upload to its website, and not to upload any video that does not meet these criteria or that we deem unsuitable.
(All types of videos?)
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Goodbye (kosher) Columbus
The New Standard – "Central Ohio's largest Jewish circulation newspaper" – reports on the closing of the Bexley Kosher Market.
The good news: The local Kroger plans to open extensive kosher operation.
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I want my Holocaust awareness ad
MTV has produced two Holocaust awareness ads as part of its "Think" initiative.
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David Landau: Did you ever think the press may have a point about Israel?
At the closing session of the of London Jewish Book Week, outgoing Ha'aretz editor David Landau suggested that instead of spending so much energy criticizing the media, pro-Israel activists should be asking if the press has a point when it puts forward comparisons to apartheid.
Listen to the audio clip or read an account of the talk (which also involved Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger).
Landau has generated plenty of controversy this year, by reportedly telling the U.S. secretary of state that Israel wants to be "raped" and boasting at a conference in Russia that his newspaper had "wittingly soft-pedaled" alleged corruption by Israeli political leaders who were pushing the peace process.
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Hey, Crystal, you’re no Gary Rosenblatt
With baseball writers buzzing this week about comedian Billy Crystal's short stint with the New York Yankees, Jewish Week editor Gary Rosenblatt picked a good time for a column on his own stab at spring training glory:
As spring training moves toward Opening Day, rekindling in baseball fans everywhere the flickering and foolish hope that this could be the year for their team, I share with you my own story of child-like dreams rubbing up against reality. It's a saga I like to think of as My (Almost) Magical Inning.In this case it was the Baltimore Orioles (who went on to win the World Series that fall). And while it's true that it was a spring training exhibition game, not a "real" game, and
it took place in a rundown ballpark in Miami, not Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, and it was to be in a "B" squad game, not an "A" squad game, and it was only for a fraction of the game, not the whole game, still — to play on the field with your heroes, in uniform, who wouldn't jump at this chance of a lifetime?
So when a well-placed friend arranged for this to happen (long before Baseball Fantasy Camps became a booming business for affluent, grown-up kids), I flew down to Miami from Baltimore, excited and nervous, and clutching my weather-beaten fielders glove. ...
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The Luck of the Irish Jews
The Connecticut Jewish Ledger has an article taking a look at how Irish Jews around the world mark St. Patrick's Day.
The Lower East Side
The Loyal Yiddish Sons of Erin were a group of Irish-Jewish immigrants in New York City who, at least through the 1960s, would celebrate St. Patrick's Day with green matzo balls. The Sons were actually Irish-born descendants of Polish and Lithuanian Jews who had stopped off in Ireland for a brief period on their migratory path to the U.S.
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David Briscoe experienced the day differently while growing up Jewish in Dublin as son of Lord Mayor Ben Briscoe and grandson of the city's first Jewish Lord Mayor, Robert Briscoe."Irish Jews enjoy the day like everyone else and ensure it is a day to join in the celebration of Irish unity and culture," says the associate professor of medicine at Harvard. "On a personal note, I plan to arrange a day of Irish music and dance for several of my colleagues to celebrate Irish culture."
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David Briscoe experienced the day differently while growing up Jewish in Dublin as son of Lord Mayor Ben Briscoe and grandson of the city's first Jewish Lord Mayor, Robert Briscoe."Irish Jews enjoy the day like everyone else and ensure it is a day to join in the celebration of Irish unity and culture," says the associate professor of medicine at Harvard. "On a personal note, I plan to arrange a day of Irish music and dance for several of my colleagues to celebrate Irish culture."
Plus a list of prominent Irish Jews.
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