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Jewish Talent At Globes
LOS ANGELES (JTA) -- Jewish talent won
some and lost some at the Golden Globe
Award ceremonies, auguring a mixed out-
look for the upcoming Oscar nominations.
Israeli-born Natalie Portman waltzed
away from the Sunday evening award
ceremony in Beverly Hills as best actress
in the drama category for her impressive
turn as a tortured ballerina in The Black
Swan.
The Social Network, the gripping if
somewhat skewed — story of Facebook
founder Mark Zuckerberg, won for best
drama picture, but its star, Jesse Eisenberg,
lost out to best actor winner Colin Firth,
portraying England's stuttering George VI
in The King's Speech.
Social Network won additional honors
for screenwriter Aaron Sorkin for best
screenplay. Sorkin beat out, among oth-
ers, Britain's David Seidler, who provided
the inspiration and script for The King's
Speech.
Seidler's paternal grandparents perished
in the Holocaust.
In the separate comedy or musical cat-
egory, Paul Giamatti, who is not Jewish,
emerged as best actor for his portrayal of
the very Jewish producer Barney Panofs
in Barney's Version. The movie is based on
the novel of the same title by Canadian-
Jewish author Mordecai Richler.
Denmark's In a Better World won the
prize for best foreign-language film.
Israel's Oscar entry, The Human Resources
Manager,"did not place among the five

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finalists.
For the first time since the end of World
War II, no movie or documentary deal-
ing with the Holocaust or the Nazi era
was submitted for either Golden Globe or
Academy Award consideration.
The television musical show Glee was
named best television comedy show, and
cast members Jane Lynch, who plays
cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester, and
Chris Cofer, who plays gay student Kurt,
won for best supporting actress and actor.
Brad Falchuk, son of national Hadassah
President Nancy Falchuk, is a co-creator,
producer, writer and director on the show.
JN "Celebrity Jews" columnist Nate
Bloom, adds:
• Jewish songwriter Diane Warren won
the Globe for best song ("Burlesque").
• "The Kids Are Alright," won the Globe
for best comedy film. "Kids" was written
by Stuart Blumberg and Lisa Cholodenko,
who are both Jewish. Cholodenko directed
the film.
• Susanne Bier, a Danish Jew, appeared
to accept the Globe for best foreign film
(Ina Better World). Bier directed and co-
wrote the film.
• Worthy of note — Paul Giamatti isn't
Jewish and describes himself as an athe-
ist. However, his wife, Elizabeth Cohen is
Jewish and they are raising their 9-year-
old son in his mother's faith. He told
Parade in 2007:
"I don't celebrate Christmas anymore.
I haven't for years because my wife is
Jewish. But we really go out in a big way

for Chanukah and my son goes bananas
for it?'
Parade asked him about celebrating
both occasions and Giamatti replied:
"That would be a lot of work. The kid
gets a full week of Chanukah and that's
enough. I think if we threw in a tree and
presents from Santa, he'd just get con-
fused."

Worm A U.S.-Israel Project?
NEW YORK (JTA) -- The computer worm
Stuxnet, which some say has set back
Iran's nuclear program by several months
or years, was a joint project between
America and Israel, the New York Times
reported.
Israel tested the virus, designed to
destroy Iran's nuclear centrifuges at its
Natanz nuclear reactor, at its Dimona
complex in the Negev Desert, according
to the report published Saturday. Stuxnet
reportedly has wiped out about one-fifth
of Iran's nuclear centrifuges, delaying its
ability to create its first nuclear weapons.
According to the newspaper, in 2008 the
German company Siemens gave the Idaho
National Laboratory information to enable
it to identify weaknesses in the computers
it sold to Iran for its enrichment facilities.
Those weaknesses are what the Stuxnet
worm attacked when it was released the
following year.
The worm worked by sending Iran's
nuclear centrifuges out of control, while
at the same time playing back recordings
of normal operations at the nuclear plant,

meaning that everything appeared normal
to the plant's operators even as the centri-
fuges were tearing themselves apart.
Neither America nor Israel has admitted
to playing a role in designing Stuxnet.
In January 2009, the New York Times
reported that President Bush authorized a
covert program to undermine the electri-
cal and computer systems at the Natanz
plant. President Obama sped up the pro-
gram, according to the newspaper, citing
unnamed officials.

Answering

Israel's Critics

The Charge
Time magazine's current issue contains
an article in which Israel is described
as leaning toward fascism and having a
"shadowy" intelligence service.

The Answer
The biased article bias downplays that
Israel is an open, vibrant democracy
with an independent, muckraking
controller, an activist judiciary and a
free press filled with investigations and
government criticism.

- Allan Gale

Jewish Community Relations Council

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