Television

September 3, 2008

Old favorites take on fresh roles in fall TV season

By Shoshana Lewin Fischer

After a summer filled with Olympics, political conventions and bizarre reality shows ("I Survived a Japanese Game Show" anyone?) TV viewers are aching for something different.

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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Bob Saget: Clean-cut and filthy (uncensored version) [VIDEOS]

By Naomi Pfefferman

" . . . Bob is particularly funny because he has this dual, schizophrenic reputation from the G-rated family shows to the X-rated stand-up show . . ."

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Bob Saget: Clean-cut and filthy (G-rated version)

By Naomi Pfefferman

". . . Bob is particularly funny because he has this dual, schizophrenic reputation from the G-rated family shows to the X-rated stand-up show . . ."

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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Will new Jewish TV Channel (TJC) click with viewers?

By David Haldane

The Jewish Channel (TJC), an ambitious enterprise that, depending on who's talking, is either the new Jewish HBO or the latest tawdry entry in a long series of failed attempts to create one

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

‘24’ producer Howard Gordon : Our only politics is to have an exciting show

By Tom Tugend

" . . .We had a visit from a high-ranking West Point officer, who said that his cadets were not only great fans of our show but were actually taking their cues from Jack Bauer. That was very disconcerting . . ."

Adam SterlingWednesday, July 30, 2008

Don’t just sit there—do something

By Laura Donney

Among the candidates for the $100,000 Teen Choice prize is Adam Sterling, a UCLA graduate raised in Oak Park who is now director of the Sudan Divestment Task Force

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Michael Ross—who got Sammy Davis to kiss Archie Bunker—donates milions for Jewish studies

By The Web Guy

Michael Ross, the former producer of and writer for iconic American sitcoms "All in the Family," "The Jeffersons" and "Three's Company," has given some $14 million to create Jewish studies programs at UCLA and City College of New York in recent months.

Monday, July 7, 2008

VIDEO: Mind of Mencia—cultural explorer Carlos goes to Fairfax to visit the Jews

Official Comedy Central Video: The Mind of Mencia -- cultural explorer Carlos goes to visit the Jews

Monday, June 9, 2008

VIDEO: The Goldbergs (1955) starring Getrude Berg

By The Web Guy

Episode of the Jewish-themed 1950s soap-opera/sitcom The Goldbergs, starring Gertrude Berg, taken from the final season

Thursday, May 29, 2008

VIDEO: Sid Caesar on the Chabad Telethon

By The Web Guy

It's the fake dialect bit, and he invented it and no one has ever done it better

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Thursday, May 29, 2008

Harvey Herschel Korman dies at 81

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Four-time Emmy winner Harvey Korman, best known for his over-the-top comedy sketches on The Carol Burnett Show, died of heart failure Friday. He was 81.

Thursday, May 22, 2008

MUSIC VIDEO: ‘Who’s Yehudi?’ 1943 ‘Soundie’

By The Web Guy

Video jukebox clip from the 1940s has that shimmy and shake -- and a stereotyped 'yehudi'

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Secrets of their success

By Jay Firestone

New book looks at what makes people successful

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Sexcapades of ‘Sex in the City’ actor often rival show’s

By Naomi Pfefferman

Evan Handler's offscreen life is as wild as his video adventures,

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Dark currents surface in surfing clan’s idyllic life

By Sally Ogle Davis

A nice Jewish doctor decides his family must live on in a camper and surf . . . all the time; and here's the documentary to prove it

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Hollywood-Israel link flourishing

By Tom Tugend

A group of hotshot Hollywood television executives sit around a table sipping Evian water, working their cellphones and bemoaning the lack of fresh ideas for a series to pull their network out of the cellar.

Judy Toll imitates Andrew *Dice* Clay. Photo courtesy Judecat ProductionsSunday, May 4, 2008

Judy Toll is one funny valentine

By Hank Rosenfeld, Contributing Writer

So what can you say about a 44-year-old comedian who died? That she leaves a certain legacy of laughter, through the efforts of her brother, to those who never heard of her.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

At the crossroads with Elvis

By Tom Teicholz

So who is Steve Binder, and why was the "Singer Presents Elvis" special from 1968 so special that 40 years later, people still regard it as one of the greatest TV musical performances ever?

Leonard Nimoy as Mr. SpockFriday, March 7, 2008

Final Frontier calls to Nimoy

By Josh Richman

In 2002, Leonard Nimoy, now 76, said he was retiring from acting to focus on photography. But in May 2009, he'll return to the silver screen as the pointy-eared pop culture icon who has been his alter ego since "Star Trek" debuted on television in 1966.

Gary David GoldbergThursday, February 21, 2008

TV: From Bensonhurst to Vermont, via Hollywood

By Pat Sierchio

Gary David Goldberg did not set out to be a screenwriter. He was already 30 when a teacher at San Diego State University guided him toward the profession. That fateful nudge set Goldberg on his path to becoming a successful writer/producer and director of a string of films and television shows that include "Spin City," "Brooklyn Bridge" and the phenomenally popular sitcom, "Family Ties."

Friday, February 15, 2008

VIDEO: It’s Not Fair - Let The Jews In Hollywood!

When the Writers went on strike, even comedy paid a price.

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Arts
Not your average ‘schlub’—a memoir

Max Gross, by his own admission, used to be your average schlub: He sported an unkempt Jewfro, the bottoms of his jeans were tattered and he'd gamely put a good burger before a diet.

Elections
McCain accepts nomination, offers little new on Israel, Iran

John McCain closed out the Republican convention Thursday night with a speech in which he defended traditional GOP policy points, while criticizing his party's recent performance and pledging to work with lawmakers across the aisle.

Israel
VIDEO: Archaeologists excavate 2100-year-old wall in Jerusalem

A 2,100-year-old section of the wall surrounding Jerusalem, dating from Hasmonean times, has been unearthed on Mount Zion, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday. The excavations have revealed part of the expanded southern city wall, from the Second Temple period, when ancient Jerusalem was at its largest.

U.S.
Michele Obama’s cousin’s cousin is a rabbi; Abbas met with Kuntar

A cousin of the wife of Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, is a cousin of this country's most prominent black rabbi, according to a report in The Forward.

Los Angeles
Rabbi Sharon Brous wins $100,000 award for ‘Inspired Leadership’

Since Sharon Brous, 34, founded her alternative synagogue four years ago, IKAR's young rabbi has frequently been identified as an innovative spiritual leader, someone successful at engaging disaffected younger Jews by marrying Torah learning with progressive social action.

World
Will new ‘Cold War’ play out in Middle East?

With talk of a new Cold War in the offing following Russia's recent military successes in Georgia, Israel is worried Russia might reassess this policy and use the sale of new weaponry to Syria -- or the threat of it -- to strengthen Russia's hand vis-à-vis Israel's primary

Kids & Teens
Cambodia’s killing fields revisited

I can vividly remember the first time I visited the Museum of Tolerance, in seventh grade. Not personally knowing anyone who had survived the Holocaust, I had been shielded from the grisly details of World War II.

Music
Cancer gives musician a new song

This time, Charlie Lustman hadn't come to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for medical tests or to endure another round of chemotherapy. Despite having lost three-quarters of his jawbone, Lustman had come to celebrate, to inspire -- and to sing.

Los Angeles
Rabbi Sharon Brous wins $100,000 award for ‘Inspired Leadership’

Since Sharon Brous, 34, founded her alternative synagogue four years ago, IKAR's young rabbi has frequently been identified as an innovative spiritual leader, someone successful at engaging disaffected younger Jews by marrying Torah learning with progressive social action.

Calendar
Calendar Girls picks and clicks for Sept. 6–12: Hip hop art, veggie Jews, string theory & laughs

Singles
True confessions of an online dating addict #5: Shopping for a new date

There's nothing better than coming home from a bad date and shopping for someone else.

Torah Portion
Moving beyond charity

Parshat Shoftim (Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9) One of the biggest misnomers in the Jewish vocabulary is the translation of tzedakah as "charity." This mistranslation has gone on for so long in the American Jewish community that it's a hard habit to break.

Religion
PETA says Agriprocessors misled rabbis about slaughter procedures [VIDEO]

An undercover video shot at the Agriprocessors kosher meat plant is prompting new claims that the company engages in inhumane slaughter and misled Orthodox rabbis who visited the plant in July.

Opinion
Joon

Since 1978, Iranian Jews have injected into a stable, maybe even staid Jewish community talent, industry, a profound connection to their Jewish roots and a desire to have a positive political and social impact on the city. They have energized a Jewish community that could always