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“When you are honest about what’s difficult and challenging, and you ask for help, you can do more,” said Eitan Armon, the subject of the “Looking UP.”
Before chanting it at a music festival near Brussels, the Bob Vylan group popularized the chant in Britain.
Richie Johns, of Studio 523, told JNS that his sitcom “The Promised Land,” which modernizes the biblical stories of Moses, “feels Jewish.”
“I just like building things,” said the semi-retired, 70-year-old, St. Louis resident, and figuring out “how does this go together, and what kind of detail do I need for that?”
The Israeli mini-series on ordinary people facing life-or-death situations is competing in the Best Foreign Language Series category.
The Portland Trail Blazers’ Deni Avdija scored 35 points in a loss to the Detroit Pistons, finishing five points clear of Omri Casspi’s mark.
“They could go to a museum even in the Gulf, where people could see another side of Israel, an artistic side, a beautiful side,” Bernard Shapero told JNS.
The American diplomat visited the famous Machneyuda restaurant located in the capital and heard about the hostilities Israeli chefs are facing abroad.
It was choreographed by Jewish dancer Alan Bersten so that Jewish kids “feel seen and feel proud.”
Patriots owner and prominent Jewish philanthropist has led the New England Patriots to six Super Bowl victories and 10 Super Bowl appearances.
Stoppard’s late-in-life discovery of his family’s Jewish identity inspired his 2020 play “Leopoldstadt.”
The director says a financier urged her to drop the Holocaust-lie storyline from “Eleanor the Great,” but she secured backing elsewhere.
