Max Gross
By Max Gross
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Israel News A Tinseltown Family Business
The name “Gyllenhaal” crops up in a lot of movies these days. There’s actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, America’s sexiest secretary. There’s her younger brother, Jake, who has performed in everything from Gulf War epics to gay cowboy flicks. There’s Stephen, their father, a longtime television and film director. And then there’s the family’s mom, Naomi Foner…
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Israel News Friars Raise Funds
You’d think that at the Friar’s Club, they could make fun of anything. The famous New York humorists’ lair certainly has had its share of tasteless acts over the years. But when it came to the subject of the Gaza disengagement, one recent Friar’s Club performer found precious little to laugh about. “That’s like saying,…
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Israel News Following in Dad’s Footsteps
When she was a child, Jennifer Miller often was late for school, but her excuse was about as good as they come: Her ride was involved in high-level diplomatic talks. Miller, 25, is the daughter of Aaron Miller, longtime adviser to the State Department on Arab-Israeli affairs. She grew up in a hothouse of Middle…
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News Stumbling Into the Winner’s Circle
Last weekend, the Forward sent reporter Max Gross — aka the Hapless Jewish Writer — to the Catskills to report on a story. He came back an accidental horse racing champion. This is his story. Back in his college days, the Hapless Jewish Writer’s klutziness was the stuff of legends. During his first week at…
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Israel News The Thing: Back in the Closet?
Three years ago, “The Thing” — Marvel Comics’s orange-hued, stony-skinned, 500-pound member of the Fantastic Four — revealed that before mutating into a superhero, he was Benjamin Jacob Grimm, a Jew from the Lower East Side (Fantastic Four, Number 56, “Remembrance of Things Past”). But if you were expecting The Thing to revel in his…
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Israel News Star Wars Saga Unfolds on Small Screen — As a Cartoon
About a month ago, Genndy Tartakovsky and his wife strolled past the line that already had formed outside Grauman’s Chinese Theatre for “Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith.” As the Tartakovskys got closer to the intergalactic faithful, several faces lit up. Pens were out, and Tartakovsky was asked for his autograph. “I…
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Israel News Leading a Congregation That Has a Showbiz Pedigree
All rabbis like to gush about their congregations. They’ll boast about high membership, the quality of their Hebrew school teachers or money raised for tsunami victims. But Rabbi Josh Simon of Congregation Ezrath Israel in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen tends to brag about other things — like the fact that two of the Three Stooges were…
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News To Boldly Go Where No Jew Has Gone: Book Features Klingon Intermarriage
Esther Silvers is boldly going where no Jew has gone before —under the chupah with a Klingon. The main character in the “Star Trek” e-book series, “Starfleet Corps of Engineers,” Esther is marrying out (of the species) — to Khor, the son of the Klingon ambassador to Earth. The latest installment of the series, “Creative…
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