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Catskills comedian Stewie Stone doing his stand-up routine. Stewie Stone is living proof you can take the kid outa Brooklyn, but you can't take Brooklyn outa the kid. Even his name, Stewie, comes direct from Flatbush. "In Brooklyn," he explains, "we're very big on vowels. We put 'E's at the end of everything - Hermie, Frankie, Stewie." Before Stewie got to be a big man in Vegas, he was a little kid in Brooklyn and comedy was his protector. "I was a terrible introvert, and real small for my...
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Jazz clarinetist Anat Cohen - Live musical performance by Anat Cohen and John Pizzarelli - "I Wanna Be Around" - Jazz stays vital by virtue of the young players who step up and bring something new to the music. One of the most delightful "arrivals" to the jazz world in the past several years is Israeli-born clarinetist and saxophonist Anat Cohen. She combines virtuosity with warmth, the experimental with the universal, and an eclecticism that avoids the pitfalls of mish-mosh. In Anat...
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Photographer Bill Aron chronicles Jewish life around the world - Bill Aron Personal Resume: I am perhaps best known for my photographs of Jewish communities around the world. My first book, chronicling the Jewish communities of the former Soviet Union, Cuba, Jerusalem, New York and Los Angeles entitled, From The Corners Of The Earth was published, with an introduction by Chaim Potok, by The Jewish Publication Society. I also recently collaborated with The Museum of the Southern Jewish...
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Natan Sharansky is a modern Jewish hero who fought the Soviet Union and triumphed after years of brutal torture and imprisonment. His amazing return to Israel and election to the Knesset is a miracle. He authored a best-selling novel entitled "A Case for Democracy" which became President George Bush's more influential novel. This video covers the relationship between Sharansky and Bush and the influence it has had. Here is Sharansky's amazing biography: Anatoly Sharansky was born January 20,...
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Gentleman's Agreement Trailer - The best of the few Hollywood treatments of anti-Semitism. Gregory Peck gives the right gravity to his role of a magazine reporter who comes to understand in a personal way the barriers imposed by prejudice when, to add depth to his magazine feature, he takes on a Jewish identity. Hart wrote the script, based on the novel by Laura Z. Hobson. Release Year: 1948. This book turned movie was one of the great hits of its time - the book topped the best-seller list...
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