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With American talent and ownership, Haifa team dethrones Israeli basketball dynasty

A year after a last-place finish that included a 15-game losing streak, Maccabi Haifa upsets “the New York Yankees of Israeli basketball” to claim its first Israeli league championship.

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Jerry Seinfeld teams up with Wale

What happens when an up-and-coming rapper from Washington D.C. hangs out with with a Jewish comic from the Upper West Side? No awkward-yet-hilarious rapping, we’re sad to say. There might just be a seed of a sitcom, though. Check out Wale’s visit with unlikely hero Jerry Seinfeld.

Amy Winehouse died of bulimia, not drugs or alcohol, says her brother

While the “Amy Winehouse: A Family Portrait” exhibit, opening soon at London’s Jewish Museum, will show the public a different version of the singer’s life than the one we saw in the tabloids, her brother has just come forward with a new angle on how she died. While he doesn’t deny her very struggle with […]

Sarah Silverman’s dad doesn’t like JAPs

The Birth of the Crock-Pot

Violent Femmes, Santana favorite Hani Naser makes his playing for peace

Gary David Goldberg, in memoriam

Is BDS working?

Paula Deen apologizes for racist comments, will talk to Matt Lauer on Wednesday

Drake double feature: Watch his locker room rejection, hear his new songs

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