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Why I support Barack Obama
Jewish Journal
October 10, 2008
I was with Obama in Israel and in Europe, and I saw how he focused on the urgency of the Iranian threat. I saw how he used his discussions in Israel to remind the European leaders that Israelis are justified in seeing Iran with nuclear weapons as an existential threat — and that for Israel\’s sake and our own we must put far more pressure on Iran if we are to stop it from going nuclear.
Balance Paramount to UPN Head Ostroff
Soriya Daniels
June 24, 2004
Dawn Ostroff, who in addition to being a religiously observant wife and mother, has worked her way up to a glamorous, powerful and exciting position: president of entertainment at UPN. Offering insight into the art of balancing home and work life and achieving one\’s professional dreams, she reminds us that it\’s never too late.
Give and Take
Rabbi Asher Brander
February 26, 2004
Our Torah portion employs an enigmatic turn of phrase that appears quite instructive in this regard. As God commands Moses to solicit the necessary stuff to build the Sanctuary, He demands that the Jews \”take for Me a portion.\”
Out of “Focus”
Naomi Pfefferman
November 1, 2001
\”David Mamet calls me Hebraically challenged,\” confides actor William H. Macy, a longtime collaborator of the esteemed playwright. \”I\’m the ultimate [gentile]. Part of me is the imploding WASP, a role I\’ve certainly played to death.\”\n\nWith his weak smile and wounded-looking blue eyes, Macy was riveting in his Oscar-nominated turn as a car dealer struggling to cover up his wife\’s kidnapping in the Coen brothers\’ 1996 film \”Fargo.\” He was the humiliated husband of an oversexed porn star in \”Boogie Nights,\” and a beleaguered 1950s sitcom dad in \”Pleasantville.\”\n\nWhich is why he was cautious when director Neal Slavin asked him to star in his noirish feature-film debut, \”Focus\” — based on Arthur Miller\’s 1945 novel about a milquetoast mistakenly identified as Jewish by his anti-Semitic neighbors.\n
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