Pop icon, Paula Abdul, became world famous as the judge on American Idol came to Israel in on what is called a very personal visit on which she is going to celebrate her Bat Mitzvah. We caught up with her while visiting President Shimon Peres’s residence in Jerusalem, where he sub’d as our interviewer. Although the first thing that comes …
Read More »Bio Flicks Flopping at the Box Office
i24news’ Morning Edition with Yael Lavie for November 13th, 2013 Ron Jacobsohn discusses how this year has become the year of the flopping bio pics with both the audiences and the critics alike.
Read More »Ron Jacobsohn Discovers the Yiddish Spiel Theater
Ron Jacobsohn Discovers the Yiddish Spiel Theater If you thought the Yiddish language is gone just come and see the new play by the Yiddish Spiel Theater in Tel-Aviv which created a new comedic play in the spirit of Dzigan and Shumacher which features amongst others iPhone’s, Big Brother and even McDonald’s. And for a country that used to ban …
Read More »Ron Jacobsohn Attends the Opening of the Berlin Dayz
There is no doubt that we have come a long way in the last 60-years between the Germans and the Jews. And so, maybe, it should not come as a big surprise that Tel-Aviv is hosting in the next few weeks the “Berlin Dayz”, a cultural exchange between the two metropolitans, Tel-Aviv and Berlin. Ron Jacobsohn, JN1 Correspondent: There is …
Read More »The Foreign Language Oscar Contenders
i24news’ Morning Edition with Yeal Lavie for October 4th, 2013 Ron Jacobsohn explains how the Academy for Motion Pictures and Sciences will vote for the 86th Academy Awards in the Foreign Language Movie category and discusses who are the Foreign Language Oscar contenders for this year.
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