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Ever noticed how “mohels” rhymes with “royals”? Well the University of Maryland a capella group Kol Ish did, and thank goodness. In their version of teen pop star Lorde’s “Royals,” retitled, yep, “Mohels,” the boys have a thing or two to say to those opposed to circumcision. It’s pretty intense — think lines like “I’ve […]

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At 109, Alice Herz-Sommer is the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor, the world’s oldest pianist and the second-oldest person living in England. She’s also the subject of the documentary “The Lady In Number 6: Music Saved My Life,” now up for a possible Academy Award nomination. Of 40 candidates, it was one of eight to make […]

Latin love machine Julio Iglesias has just dished to The Jerusalem Post that he is Jewish “from the waist up.” The 70-year-old singer is not, in fact, some kind of Semitic centaur — he just skipped a certain traditional rite of passage. (Oh, you got that right away? Sorry — took us a minute to […]

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