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March 19, 2010
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JWisdom.com Stewards of sacrifice with Rabbi Sroy Levitansky (5 minutes)
Caroline B. Glick: Why Obama is waging war on Israel
March 18, 2010
Cal Thomas: Israel's New Enemy: America?
JWisdom.com Love me not? with Rabbi David Aaron (5 minutes)
Jonathan Rosenblum: Washington Throws a Tantrum
March 17, 2010
Rabbi Yonason Goldson: Orwell, Santayana, and Me
Jonathan Tobin: How Many Lives Is Biden's Pride Worth?
March 16, 2010
Steven Emerson: Combating Lawfare
JWisdom.com How to perform a miracle with Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair (4 minutes)
Anne Bayefsky: Behind Obama's Dangerous Overreaction on Israel
March 15, 2010
The Jewish Ethicist By Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: Father's obligations toward minor children
JWisdom.com Moody, Grumpy, Irritable Children with Sarah Chana Radcliffe (5 minutes)
Judith Graham: Get the whole picture before a CT
March 12, 2010
Rabbi David Aaron: You CAN have Heaven on Earth
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Caroline B. Glick: The march of the Red-Green brigades
March 11, 2010
Glenn Garvin: Conspiracy theories, why people believe them and how they spread
JWisdom.com For Yourself, Not By Yourself with Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff (8 minutes)
The Kosher Gourmet by Linda Gassenheimer : Turn leftovers into tasty New England hash
Paul Richter: Biden promises 'viable Palestine' is in the offing
March 10, 2010
Paul Greenberg: Death Checks In
JWisdom.com How To Get A (Real) Life with Rabbi Warren Goldstein ( EXTENDED EPISODE)
Paul Richter: Israel exerts soverign right to its capital as Biden looks on astounded
Richard A. Serrano: 'Jihad Jane' indictment alleges threat from within U.S.
March 9, 2010
Wesley Pruden: Joe's Israeli adventure
JWisdom.com Free To Be (Responsibly) You and Me! with Rabbi Naftali Brawer ( 8 MINUTES)
David G. Savage: Supreme Court to rule on free speech in case of soldier's funeral
March 8, 2010
The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: Make a fuss about those who cuss?
JWisdom.com Finding or Losing Yourself? Here's How! with Rabbi David Aaron ( 5 MINUTES)
Steven Emerson: America must learn from the UK about the future of Islamist subversion
March 5, 2010
Rabbi Berel Wein: Golden Calf still with us --- except it has multiplied
JWisdom.com The Limits of Eternity with Rabbi Sroy Levitansky ( 4 MINUTES)
Caroline B. Glick: Biden's lost cause
March 4, 2010
Alan M. Dershowitz: How About A Real Campaign Against Abuses?
JWisdom.com Using Things, Loving People with Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff ( 7 MINUTES)
Jordan "Gorf" Gorfinkel's Everything's Relative
March 3, 2010
JWisdom.com Grasping The Name of Your Life Game with Rabbi Warren Goldstein ( 8 MINUTES)
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March 2, 2010
Rabbi Avi Shafran: Someone's there
Diane Toroian Keaggy : Have we misunderstood Michelangelo?
March 1, 2010
JWisdom.com Whole in One with Rabbi David Aaron ( 5 MINUTES)
Michael Muskal: Hillary meets with Israeli official, discusses gefilte fish dispute
Feb. 26, 2010
Rabbi Francis Nataf: The Megilla of Spring
JWisdom.com A Biblical Secret for a More Powerful You with Rabbi Sroy Levitansky ( 5 MINUTES)
Caroline B. Glick: When rhetoric rules the roost
Feb. 25, 2010
The Jewish Ethicist By Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: When walking away from your mortgage is both economically sound and makes ethical sense
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Seema Mehta : U.S.-Israel relations raised in California's Senate race --- by conservatives
Feb. 24, 2010
Rabbi Avi Shafran: The gift of the ‘prayer bomber’
Steven Emerson: Why Religious Freedom Commission is under attack
Feb. 23, 2010
Dennis Prager: Government, Yes! The Divine and Parents, No!
JWisdom.com The Last Laugh of Enlightenment with Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair ( 5 MINUTES)
Anne Applebaum: Prepare for war with Iran --- in case Israel strikes
Feb. 22, 2010
Rabbi Yonason Goldson: Is it not refreshing Tiger Woods' career has crashed and burned so dramatically?
JWisdom.com Esther and the third Truth with Rabbi David Aaron ( 9 MINUTES)
Kelly Brewington: Going smoke-free may raise diabetes risk
Feb. 19, 2010
Rabbi David Aaron: Is the Divine beyond us or within us?
JWisdom.com Olympic Faith with Rabbi Sroy Levitansky ( 5 MINUTES)
Caroline B. Glick: Israel and the West are perpetrators of a myth that endangers the Jewish State
Feb. 18, 2010
Cal Thomas: Who is Rashad Hussain?
JWisdom.com A Wedding Disaster to Remember with Rabbi Y.Y. Rubinstein ( 3 MINUTES)
Feb. 17, 2010
JWisdom.com Think your life is messed up? with Rabbi David Aaron ( 11 MINUTES)
Greg Logan: 'Greatest Jewish sporting event of all time since David versus Goliath' may be postponed because of bar mitzvah
Feb. 16, 2010
Anya Martin : Boy's 'cerebral palsy' fixed with diet
JWisdom.com Feet On The Street Spirituality with Gavriel Aryeh Sanders ( 8 MINUTES)
Marty Peretz: Let Europe Mind Its Own Business. It Brings Nothing To The Table Save For Mischief
Feb. 15, 2010
Herb Geduld: Lincoln and the Jews
JWisdom.com Are Our Children Really Ours? with Rabbi Mordechai Becher ( 5 MINUTES)
Susan King: 'Wolf Man' reflected writer's wartime Jewish experience

Jewish World Review August 13, 2009 / 23 Menachem-Av 5769

Better-than-most-fall-TV-previews fall TV preview

By Lewis Grossberger


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http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | It's shaping up as a spectacular season. Unlike many past years, there is no one trend or theme dominating this fall's very creative and innovative lineup. Here are the best of the new and returning shows, with a brief note on what to expect.


Dancing with Supernatural Creatures: Who are the best dancers -- vampires, zombies, shape shifters or giant squid? (My money's on the cephalopod) Genuine monsters partner with actors who play vampires in hit movies and TV series in this reality show hosted by Paula Abdul and a 3,600-year-old man who claims to be the real Dracula. (new show)


Mad Men: Fear strikes Sterling, Hayden & Cooper when Pete's secretary is found dead with tooth marks on her toothsome neck. As most beautiful person in the office, Don is assigned to hunt down the vampire responsible but worries that it may be his wife, Betty, who's been behaving even more oddly than usual. Meanwhile Peggy, now chairman of the board, is pregnant again and suspects her baby may be a werewolf, an idea she finds strangely exciting.


Curb Your Enthusiasm: Plans for a Seinfeld reunion form a major plot strand this season as Jerry and his old gang all turn up on the sitcom of their old collaborator, Larry David. But things go awry when Julia Louis-Dreyfus is found dead with tooth marks on her neck. Jerry naturally suspects Newman but Michael Richards is behaving even more oddly than usual. Spoiler warning: The vampire turns out to be Jason Alexander, who has a stake driven through his heart by Suzy Essman .


Hank: Kelsey Grammer returns to TV as a disgraced Wall Street tycoon who goes back to live in his small hometown, an idea that may sound contrived to you but actually happens all the time. There he's forced to interact with broadly written and acted comical hicks who keep telling him, "You look just like that guy from Frasier." As he is merely a figurative vampire, not a real one, no one bothers to deliver the deathblow Hank richly deserves. (new show)


The Good Wife: Julianna Margulies (an ER original cast member) is a former attorney who must go back to work when her politician husband, (Chris Noth, forever Mr. Big) is sent to jail. She has trouble competing with the young hotshots because all trials are now conducted on Twitter, which she's never used. Meanwhile, Chris falls in with a gang of bad-ass convicts including Bernie Madoff, Phil Spector, Bill Compton (the hot vampire from True Blood) and, in his acting debut, Levi Johnston. When they break out en masse, Julianna must put them all up in her tiny, cramped apartment in Tribeca. Hilarious complications ensue. (new show)


House: Increasingly disturbed during his confinement in a mental hospital, House is treated for advanced obnoxiousness by the paranoid Dr. Van Helsing, who suspects all his patients are vampires. Actually, only two or three of them are. The rest are merely TV actors impersonating vampires.


The Vampire Diaries: Based on a series of best-selling YA novels, this eagerly awaited show concerns the adventures of a group of medieval teenage vampires who, having drained everyone in Transylvania, time travel to Hollywood and take over network television. No one in the industry notices anything unusual is going on. (new show)


Law and Order SVU: Elliot (Christopher Meloni) and Olivia (Mariska Hargitay) go after a gang of dancing zombie chefs who are trying to popularize a new type of sex crime so horrible and disgusting that Munch (Richard Belzer) throws up every time they try to tell him about it. Paula Abdul guest stars as leader of the gang.


Cougar Town: A sexy divorcee in her forties (Courtney Cox) has an affair with what she thinks is a 17-year-old high school student only to discover that he's really a 16-year-old high school student. Paula Abdul co-stars as a 44-year-old high-school student with two-year-old fang implants that she got while guest starring on Nip/Tuck.


Eastwick: Three suburban witches must pretend to be vampires after discovering that no one wants to befriend them because witches are pathetically untrendy. The ghost of John Updike makes frequent guest appearances, reading excerpts from his novels. (new show)


No Fangs, We Ain't Interested: a valiant band of rebellious TV writers languishes in obscurity after trying to get a show on the air that has no vampires in it. (new show)

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Previously:


07/01/09: Many saddened by inability to join national outpouring of grief over Jackson
06/25/09: Tweeting the American Revolution
06/17/09: Who were the Collyer brothers? (Be the first to answer and win a basement full of old newspapers)
06/11/09: What we learn from the new Hitler photos
05/28/09: Beware: Don't Fall into the Clutches of the Hugger-Mugger

© 2009, Lewis Grossberger

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