Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin, and others from the American television drama, Homeland, are in Israel to shoot episodes for the second season of the award winning series. The thriller is based on...
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The Tin Bum: Did Gunter Gross Write a Pre Passover Blood Libel?
Günter Grass, the Nobel Prize-winning German author, poet, and artist – best known for his first novel, The Tin Drum – has written a poem in the SudDeutsche Zeitung today, which tells...
If You Prick Habima, Does It Not Bleed? Emma Thompson Joins BDS
The British Globe To Globe festival is staging 37 plays by Shakespeare performed in various languages at the Globe Theater. They will celebrate productions from Turkey, Ramallah, Iran, and China...
BBYO Foils MPAA Bullies
Today in North America, BULLY, a documentary about bullying, opens in half a dozen selected theaters. The documentary has been talked about online for nearly a year (since its screening at the...
Nutmeg Matzo Balls?
It is the Wednesday before Passover preparations and shopping really begin in earnest, so traditionally, North American and other publishers print stories and recipes for their Passover observant...
ShivaWatch: A Toasted Bagel and Coffee
The Jewish, culinary and entrepreneurial world lost two leaders this week. Murray Lender who gave the world the frozen bagel, and Sam Glazer taught America to drip coffee. These men changed the way...
Did Oscars Sell out to Sacha Baron Cohen?
Oh the lengths Hollywood producers will go for dollars and ratings. But you know they say they would sell their own families for a deal, a package, or box office success. An so, earlier this week...
Feel Like the Ehud Barak for Under $300
Sabre rattling against Iran; Iranian attacks on Israelis in Thailand* (almost), India, and Georgia; meetings between defense leaders and diplomats; and economic sanctions are heightening the...