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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Judd Apatow

Courtesy of Wikipedia Judd Apatow (December 6, 1967) is an American director, producer, screenwriter and comedian, best known for his work in comedy films. He is the founder of Apatow Productions, through which he produced and directed the films The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Knocked Up (2007), Funny People (2009), This Is 40 (2012), Trainwreck (2015), The King of Staten Island (2020), and The Bubble (2022). Through Apatow Productions he produced and developed […]

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Effort Underway to Fire Israel’s Attorney General

Gali Baharav-Miara, Israel’s attorney general, has been accused by Shlomo Karhi, Israel’s communications minister, of “deliberately thwarting government policy for political reasons.” Karhi, with the backing of 12 other ministers in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s 33-member Cabinet, has called for Baharav-Miara’s dismissal. [SDJW staff report]

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Adam Horowitz

Courtesy of Wikipedia Adam Horowitz (December 4, 1971) is an American screenwriter and producer. He is best known for co-creating the ABC fairy tale drama series Once Upon a Time with his writing partner, Edward Kitsis. Horowitz was born in New York City, and graduated from Hunter College High School in 1990. He attended University of Wisconsin–Madison and graduated with a B.A. in 1994, majoring in

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Lee Strasberg

Courtesy of Wikipedia Lee Strasberg (November 17, 1901 – February 17, 1982) was an American theatre director, actor and acting teacher. He co-founded, with theatre directors Harold Clurman and Cheryl Crawford, the Group Theatre in 1931, which was hailed as “America’s first true theatrical collective”. In 1951, he became director of the nonprofit Actors Studio in New York City, considered “the

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Morley Safer

Courtesy of Wikipedia Morley Safer (November 8, 1931 – May 19, 2016) was a Canadian-American broadcast journalist, reporter, and correspondent for CBS News. He was best known for his long tenure on the news magazine 60 Minutes, whose cast he joined in 1970 after its second year on television. He was the longest-serving reporter on 60 Minutes, the most watched and most profitable

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Sefi Rivlin

Courtesy of Wikipedia Sefi Rivlin (November 7, 1947 – December 3, 2013) was an Israeli actor and comedian. He was best known for his roles in the satire show Nikui Rosh [he] (“Head Cleaning”), the children’s program Rega im Dodley and its spin-off At Fistuk’s Home [he]. Yosef “Sefi” Rivlin born and grew up in Nahalat Yehuda (present-day Rishon LeZion). He was born

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