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Tim Boxer At Bernard Lewis Celebration

Celebrity Buzz

09/20/2012

Tim Boxer

Special To The Jewish Week

Bernard Lewis, who has earned almost every honor an historian of the Middle East can hope to accumulate, confessed at a dinner celebrating his career:

“At 96 years old I use a cane, need hearing aids and take naps. I eat less and weigh more. I have deteriorated physically and even mentally. There is an Israeli expression, ad meah v’esrim, till 120. Some say ad meah k’esrim, till 100, like 20. That sounds better.”

Bernard Lewis, left, and Henry Kissinger.

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Hot Young Hollywood Stars in Israel

06/20/2011

It's been a good month for celebs in Israel, with some of Hollywood's hottest young stars touring the Jewish state.

The A-list includes Sarah Drew and Kevin McKidd from "Grey's Anatomy," the ABC hit show; Lucas Neff and Shannon Woodward from "Raising Hope" on Fox; and Gregory Smith and Travis Milne from "Rookie Blue,” the ABC series.

Gregory Smith, Sarah Drew & Lucas Neff at the Inbal Jerusalem Hotel. (Photo by David Katz)

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To Yeshiva or Not, That is the Question

11/02/2010

Melissa Chapman

Special to the Jewish Week

Eleven years ago, when I got married- all heady from wedding gown fittings, arguments with the photographer and the fact my husband, a very secular Jew, agreed to celebrate our union in a most Orthodox, Jewish way -- the word “yeshiva” would not have been a blip on my radar screen.

If you had asked me whether or not I’d be inclined to send my kids to yeshiva, a haughty cackle would have emanated from deep in my throat: “no, are you crazy?”