By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — There are many books on aging on bookstore shelves; some are humorous, some serious, some emphasize financial planning, some deal with loss, most wish to help our aging population to age “gracefully.” The new book by Dr. Ken Druck, a noted author, addresses the issue of aging by […]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Natasha JosefowitzBy Pamela Pollack-Fremd SAN DIEGO — Chavela a documentary on a famous Mexican Ranchera singer, produced and directed by Catherine Gund and Daresha Kyi, shows how difficult life can be when you are different. Isabel Vargas Lizano (Chavela) was born in Puerto Rico in 1919 into a conventional middle class family. By the time she
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International, Theatre, Film & BroadcastOscar winners Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie have revealed that they, too, were victimized by disgraced Miramax and Weinstein Co. mogul Harvey Weinstein. Weinstein was credited with helping to launch Paltrow’s career, aiding in her Oscar win for “Shakespeare in Love” and turning her into the “first lady of Miramax.” Before that, though, Paltrow claimed
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABollywood superstar Jacqueline Fernandez was in Israel this week with a crew of 80 to shoot scenes for an action-comedy film opposite Indian heartthrob Sushant Singh Rajput, in the first Bollywood movie to be filmed in the Jewish state. “Drive,” described as an Indian version of Hollywood’s “The Fast and the Furious” franchise and likely
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International, Middle East, Theatre, Film & BroadcastHarvey Weinstein lured TV reporter Lauren Sivan into a quiet place in 2007 and then engaged in a “disgusting and kind of pathetic” display of sexual harassment, Sivan said in her first television interview about the encounter. Appearing Monday on NBC’s “Megyn Kelly Today,” Sivan — who is now a reporter with KTTV, a Fox
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAA painting by impressionist master Camille Pissarro that was seized from its French Jewish owner during World War II is at the centre of a court battle beginning Tuesday in Paris after surfacing at an exhibition. “La Cueillette des Pois” (Picking Peas), a gouache from 1887, emerged earlier this year on display at the French
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsMy Jerusalem Book by Barbara Shaw, Design and Illustration by Shlomi Gorodetsky, Barbara Shaw Gifts Publishers, Jerusalem, Israel, © 2017, ISBN 978-965-572-210-9, p. 128, $24.90 By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – Jerusalem is unlike any other city in Israel. It lacks the cotillion atmosphere of Tel Aviv, or the innovative climate of some of the
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Middle EastIsraeli superstar actress Gal Gadot opened the second episode of Saturday Night Live’s 43rd season Saturday with a Hebrew monologue cheekily mocking the “nice but not very intelligent” writers who she said tried to have her eat hummus in every sketch. After poking fun at her accent — “obviously I’m not from here, I’m from
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Theatre, Film & BroadcastAuthor Salman Rushdie thinks it’s pretty, pretty funny that the long-awaited premier of HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm” has a plot modeled on his own experience of being targeted by the Iranian regime with a fatwa. In the first episode of the 9th season, which aired October 1, Larry David’s eponymous character talks about a musical
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Theatre, Film & BroadcastNEW YORK — The final poems of Leonard Cohen, completed days before the legendary songwriter died, will be published in an anthology next year, his estate announced late Friday. Entitled “The Flame,” the volume will include Cohen’s unpublished poems as well as his prose pieces and illustrations and lyrics to his three final albums. Get
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, InternationalLOS ANGELES — Harvey Weinstein continued to lose key support over the weekend from people within his close circle of associates and in the larger media industry as the disgraced film executive moved to contain the fallout from his sexual harassment scandal. Two important members of his crisis team quit Saturday, including Los Angeles attorney
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAHundreds of people, including Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai, rallied at Jaffa’s Arab-Hebrew Theater Friday. The Arab-Hebrew Theater is facing a cut in the state subsidies it receives after it honored Dareen Tatour, an Israeli-Arab poet who was indicted in 2015 for incitement to violence and support of terrorism. “This is a theater that does
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Middle East, Theatre, Film & BroadcastAn oil painting by Adolf Hitler on display in an Italian museum suffered minor damage Thursday after a man attacked it with a screwdriver. A spokesperson for the Museum of Salo, east of Milan, said that the middle-aged man shouted “Bastard,” before lunging at the untitled painting, which is being shown publicly for the first
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — To celebrate my birthday we went to see the film Frantz, not knowing quite what it was about. This joint French-German production was well-received by the critics, so it seemed like a good idea. At least, we thought, we’d be able to practice our French and/or German a
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