Nathan Burstein
By Nathan Burstein
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The Schmooze Justin Bieber Fans Crash Israeli Ticketing Website
Bieber fever has hit Israel. Tickets to the country’s first-ever Justin Bieber concert went on sale Thursday evening – but remained available for only a few minutes before leaan.co.il, the ticketing website for the Tel Aviv show, crashed due to overwhelming traffic. Bieber, the Canadian pop singer with a tween fan base more rabid than…
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The Schmooze Former U.S. Olympian Jillian Schwartz Competes for Israel at 104th Millrose Games
Former U.S. Olympian Jillian Schwartz will enter a new phase of her career on Friday, competing for Israel at the Millrose Games at New York City’s Madison Square Garden. Schwartz, who represented the U.S. in the pole vault at the 2004 Athens Olympics, became an Israeli citizen in 2009 and will compete under the country’s…
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The Schmooze The End of Israel’s Three-Year Streak Toward Oscar Glory
This year’s Academy Award nominees won’t be announced until Tuesday, but Israel already knows its hot streak at the Oscars is over. “The Human Resources Manager,” Israel’s foreign-language submission, failed to make it onto the short list of nine films in the category, announced Wednesday. The final five nominees will be announced January 25, along…
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The Schmooze Bar Refaeli Typecast as Sushi Waitress in First Feature Film!
She’s been a red-carpet regular for years, but Monday marked the first time that Bar Refaeli attended the premiere of one of her own films. The Sports Illustrated cover girl, equally well-known as the girlfriend of Leonardo DiCaprio, celebrated the new film not in Hollywood but in Rishon Lezion, where a large crowd turned out…
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The Schmooze Could ‘The King’s Speech’ Oscar Hopes be derailed by Holocaust-Themed Smear Campaign?
The Holocaust, for better or worse, turns up at the Academy Awards as often as Meryl Streep. The genocide has been so ubiquitous in recent years — in movies ranging from “The Reader” to “Inglourious Basterds” — that next month’s Oscars will be notable partly for the absence of films that address it. That hasn’t…
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The Schmooze Ian McEwan to Recieve Jerusalem Prize
Israel will give its highest literary honor next month to Ian McEwan, the English author behind books including “Atonement” and “Saturday.” A winner of the Man Booker Prize for his 1998 novel “Amsterdam,” McEwan will accept his latest honor, the Jerusalem Prize, at the start of the Jerusalem International Book Fair on February 20. Given…
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The Schmooze Golden Globes Arbiter of Seats Is an Israeli Journalist
Jews don’t run Hollywood, but it turns out an Israeli controls the Golden Globes — much to the dissatisfaction of some inside the entertainment industry. Judith Solomon, a writer for Israeli magazine Women’s World, has earned a long list of Hollywood enemies as the person responsible for seating at the pre-Oscars award ceremony. A new…
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The Schmooze Bob Marley’s Son Rohan Teams Up With Hasidic Rapper
If you don’t see the parallels between dreadlocks and traditional Jewish side curls, it might be because you haven’t spent enough time with one of Bob Marley’s sons. “There’s a link between rastas and peyot,” says DeScribe, a Hasidic musician who has been collaborating with Rohan Marley, the sixth of Bob’s 11 children. “They grow…
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