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Article 106
The fourth season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David’s HBO comedy series, is over, but people are still talking about its second-to-last episode, “The Survivor,” which upends traditional views of...
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Article 105
Born in Bavaria in 1840, Solomon Star was sent to live with his uncle in Cincinnati at age 10. But it wasn’t long after his 21st birthday that he picked up and headed west. He wound up in the Dakota...
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Article 104
In The Chosen Image: Television’s Portrayal of Jewish Themes and Characters (1999), Jonathan and Judith Pearl argue that, although Hollywood movies tend to depict the bar and bat mitzvah as trivial or...
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Article 103
If I didn’t know any better, I’d think Jews are a bunch of insufferable narcissists who need not only to keep telling themselves they’re as good as everyone else but also forever and loudly assert it...
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Article 102
Arrested Development, Fox’s much admired but ultimately doomed comedy, hasn’t yet been buried a month and ABC has trotted out Sons & Daughters, a sitcom about a diverse clan of dysfunctional...
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Article 101
As the latest season of The Real World rolls out in Key West, Odessa-born Svetlana (“We’re not Russian, we’re Jewish,” she tells the camera) is the babe to watch. Sure, she’s got a boyfriend back home,...
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Article 100
Honestly, it was a girl’s dream come true. Queer Eye called, and they were looking for my husband. To be fair, David does have excellent taste. He’s just a bit of a…minimalist? So I figured hey, if the...
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Article 99
When Entourage wraps up its third season Sunday night, fans can expect answers to many questions. Will Vinnie stop alienating studio heads long enough to land another job? Will he fire his agent Ari?...
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Article 98
For his latest creation, Studio 60 on The Sunset Strip, Aaron Sorkin has packed up his dense banter and righteous moral indignation, and moved them—along with some familiar faces—3,000 miles west from...
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Article 97
Jennifer Weiner’s breezy bestsellers are often mentioned alongside the likes of Bridget Jones’ Diary and The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing. Her first, Good in Bed, which chronicles the romantic...
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Article 96
The Golem of Prague’s got a tough gig these days. Who can count the number of times in the last ten years he’s had to haul his clay body out of the attic of the Altneu Synagogue? Is there a contract...
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Article 95
So, yes, Adam Lambert is gay. The American Idol runner-up confirms what everyone in the country pretty much already knew in the new Rolling Stone, which hit newsstands yesterday. Here’s something you...
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Article 94
The inimitable (and Talmud-quoting) Norman Lear gets love from the A.V. Club on the release of a new boxed set of DVDs of six Lear shows. Not all the titles are winners. One Day at a Time and The...
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Article 93
Sarah Palin’s surprise resignation last week offered a little something for everyone: from supporters eager to once again tar the Alaska governor’s critics as sexist classists to detractors happy to...
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Article 92
A couple years ago, a lovable giant rodent with a curious resemblance to a more famous lovable giant rodent joyously instructed Palestinian children to resist the Zionists on a Hamas TV program—or he...
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Article 91
In Tablet Magazine today, Mayim Bialik, who starred in the early-‘90s series Blossom, relays how her religiously-motivated modest dress can conflict with her career. Douglas Century wraps up his saga...
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Article 90
Dudu Topaz, the disgraced Israeli television star who was arrested recently after admitting to orchestrating attacks on entertainment industry honchos he believed had wronged him, hung himself in his...
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Article 89
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Article 88
Shalom Sesame, the Jewish-themed Sesame Street spinoff that aired on PBS stations in the late 1980s and introduced a generation of kids to Big Bird’s porcupine friend Kippi ben Kippod and Oscar the...
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Article 87
Curb Your Enthusiasm will be even more meta than usual in its seventh season, when the real cast of Seinfeld reunites for a fictional Seinfeld reunion show organized by Larry David’s HBO alter ego,...
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