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is JTA's web content producer and also in charge of weekly video packages and occasional design projects. Uri is from Tel Aviv, Israel and a graduate of the University of Oregon School of Journalism. He has interned with several television stations in Portland, Ore., and in CBS News in New York.

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• Bar Refaeli is the next Super Bowl Go Daddy Girl

  January 4, 2013 1:11pm

  Who says an Israeli will never make it to the Superbowl (or the NFL, for that matter)? Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli is set to appear in the notoriously racy Super Bowl ad spot of the internet domain company GoDaddy.com. Refaeli will join race car driver Danica Patrick, according to an announcement made by Go Daddy earlier today. However, for…

• The Israeli Election Committee is targeting the hipster vote in a new video

  January 3, 2013 12:02pm

  Israel is having its general election on January 22, in case you wonder and don’t happen to have Israeli friends who repetitively post obnoxious political statuses on Facebook. The Israeli Election Committee wants everyone to vote, so they have been producing massive voting encouragement campaign, and has made it as far as reaching even the most…

• Adam Lambert: ‘Les Mis’ actors are pretending to be singers’

  January 2, 2013 5:36pm

  The new musical film “Les Misérables,” which just ended a relatively successful first weekend in the box office ($28 million). The film, which is based on Victor Hugo’s famous book and has already been adapted to a popular musical, received generally good reviews from critics, but one very vocal negative review from Adam Lambert. Lambert, a musician, musical…

• Katie Holmes and Jake Gyllenhaal are reportedly dating

  January 2, 2013 1:42pm

  A new power-couple to start 2013 right? According to gossip tabloid Grazia, Jewish heartthrob Jake Gyllenhaal has been secretly dating Katie Holmes, aka former Mrs. Cruise (and Joey Potter, for you 90s lovers). The tabloid reports that sources close to the two admit that the two have been “Spending a lot of time together (tee…

• Jerry Seinfeld, Billy Crystal and Jimmy Fallon update ‘Who’s on First?’

  December 26, 2012 4:27pm

  Some comedy bits never get old. One of them, Abbot & Costello’s hilarious baseball/word play bit “Who’s On First” from the 1940s, is still one of the funniest and most remembered of all time. Last week, the bit got an update with courtesy of Jimmy Fallon, who recreated the famous scene from the 1945 film “The Naughty…

• Drake is upset he’s not getting paid royalties for YOLO

  December 26, 2012 4:10pm

  YOLO is one of the most popular new acronyms. The meaning of YOLO – “You Only Live Once,” which is pretty much a less sophisticated Carpe Diem, has sprung since Drake used it in his song “The Motto,” with the lyrics, “Now she want a photo, you already know, though/ You only live once: that’s the…

• Honey Boo Boo backs Israel, Lena Dunham book leak, modern-day ‘Seinfeld’

  December 10, 2012 10:58pm

  Honey Boo Boo stands up for Israel, Lena Dunham’s book proposal is leaked, “Seinfeld” fans imagine the show about nothing today and Zach Braff finds he is related to Mitt Romney — through a witch.

• What’s the deal with the “Modern Seinfeld” Twitter account?

  December 10, 2012 3:51pm

  What if the most popular sitcom of all time, “Seinfeld,” took place in 2012? It’s hard to believe it’s been more than 14 years since the “show about nothing” went off the air, and while we still enjoy the nightly syndication episodes, two people figured out how a modern-day “Seinfeld” would look like with a new, popular…

• Watch a bunch of Hasidic Jews rock ‘Gangnam Style’ in Yiddish

  December 10, 2012 3:32pm

  (Post by JTA’s Adam Soclof) At Tiferes Rivka wedding hall in Brooklyn, N.Y., Eli Leno and Sori Schlafrig celebrated their wedding on the second night of Chanukah with a special musical tribute: a parody of the chart-topping single “Gangnam Style.”  The videowas posted to YouTube under the title “Hasidic Jews going Gangnam style,” although a quick visual…

• Michael Bublé covers Adam Sandler’s “Hanukkah Song”

  December 10, 2012 3:20pm

  After releasing a very successful Christmas album, Canadian singer Michael Bublé decided to pay a tribute to his Jewish fans. On an encounter with TMZ, Bublé was asked what his favorite Hanukkah song was, which turned out to be the famous Adam Sandler version (“Put on your yarmulke, here comes Hanukkah…”), Bublé even graced us with his (bleeped)…