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* Jon Scheyer, a Jewish 23-year-old former Duke basketball star, visited Israel last month, where he is joining the Maccabi Tel Aviv team. “There are so many reasons why it’s a great situation,” said Scheyer, who is Jewish. “Being in Israel is great; of course, I have a connection to Israel because of my faith […]

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The trailer for Jonah Hill’s new movie, The Sitter was just released, and in it we get to see the recently slimmed down and virtually unrecognizable Mr. Hill as we had come to know and love him — large and in charge. From the looks of the trailer (and the NSFW red band trailer), this seems like […]

So she’s not technically a Jew. But Melanie Griffith, who turns 54 today, famously played one in the 1992 movie A Stranger Among Us, or as Variety dubbed it at the time — Vitness. Griffith’s character is a cop who needs to infiltrate Brooklyn’s Hasidic community to find the person who murdered a jeweler, which means she has to […]

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