Nathan Burstein
By Nathan Burstein
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Israel News Israeli Dating Show Wins Top TV Awards
Perhaps it was bashert. A show about religious singles looking for love in Jerusalem took best drama honors August 28 at the annual awards ceremony of the Israeli Film and Television Academy. “Srugim,” about the romantic ups and downs of five 30-something singles, scored something of an upset in claiming the prize, topping a night…
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Israel News From ‘A Star Is Born’ in Israel to NYC’s Highline
Paula Valstein isn’t the first musician attempting a crossover from reality TV to the U.S. pop charts — but she is the first with a major fan base in Israel. Less than a month after getting eliminated from “Kochav Nolad,” Israel’s version of “American Idol,” Valstein will perform August 28 at New York City’s Highline…
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Israel News Israel Goes Gaga!
Israeli music fans know how to treat a Lady. That is the hope, in any case, as one of the biggest pop breakthroughs of recent years makes her way to Tel Aviv. Lady Gaga, responsible for several of 2009’s most ubiquitous hits, will take the stage August 19 at the city’s Non Stop Musix Festival,…
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Israel News Heads You Win Rabin
Nearly 14 years after Yitzhak Rabin’s death, his name remains as good as gold — and silver. On August 10, the Bank of Israel announced that it had received authorization to memorialize the former prime minister through a series of new coins that will bear Rabin’s likeness. Set to enter circulation in 2011, the special-issue…
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Culture A Classroom Film That Explores the Tensions Over Marriage in Israel
Israelis who plan to marry but don’t want their weddings performed by a government-approved Orthodox rabbi have an alternative: They can leave the country. “Ironically, this is the only democratic country in the world in which a Conservative rabbi cannot officiate a marriage according to the law,” Rabbi Levi Weiman-Kelman, head of Jerusalem’s progressive synagogue…
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Israel News Argentina’s Angels Come to Tel Aviv
Young Israelis’ passion for soap operas is again winning them visitors from the Southern Hemisphere. For the third time since 2003, the cast of a South American telenovela is on its way to Israel to perform for the country’s preteens and teenagers. The stars of “Casi Angeles” (“Almost Angels”), an Argentinean soap opera about a…
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Israel News Happy Days Are Here Again
An Israeli “happiness” expert is bringing his popular Harvard University course to American TV audiences. Starting August 3, Public Broadcasting Service stations across the nation will broadcast “Happiness 101 With Tal Ben-Shahar,” a 90-minute special featuring the Israeli author and Ivy League lecturer as he advises viewers on how to make their lives more pleasurable…
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Israel News Esti Ginzburg: Model Soldier
One of Israel’s top models is moving from photo shoots to the shooting range. Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Esti Ginzburg was expected to join the Israeli army July 22. The 19-year-old will perform two years of service, spending her first weeks in basic training before transitioning to a specialty. Under a headline reading “Private Esti,”…
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