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Michael Gerbitz of North Woodmere, L.I., is the founder of United with Israel, a grassroots movement that seeks to spread positive news about Israel through social media. A graduate of the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway, Gerbitz, 49, became involved in pro-Israel programming while president of the Jewish Student Union at Binghamton […]

Dan Janvey, a 28-year-old New Yorker and producer of the film sensation of the summer, “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” was part of a team that spent three and a half years making the movie in southern Louisiana for less than $1.5 million, astoundingly low in today’s world of movie making. What’s more, it stars […]