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February 1 • 2018

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The 52nd Super Bowl takes
place on Feb. 4. The New
Kraft
England Patriots, last year’s
winner, are looking for a
repeat win. The Philadelphia Eagles were
the surprise team of the playoffs and
are looking for their first Super Bowl win
in franchise history. The Eagles have
appeared in two Super Bowls, most
recently in Super Bowl 39 (2005), where
they lost to the Patriots. The Patriots have

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Harvard’s Hasty Pudding
Theatricals club honored
Paul Rudd, 48, and Mila
Kunis, 34, as their respective
man and woman of the year
on Jan. 25. The country’s
oldest theater organization
(founded in 1844) gives the
award annually to “perform-
ers who have made lasting
and impressive contributions
to the world of entertain-
ment.” The honorees were
treated to a fun-filled parade
before being presented with
the “Pudding Pot” in Farkas
Hall, the Hastys’ historic
home in Harvard Square.
The woman of the year
award began in 1951 and the
man of the year award began
in 1967. Kunis and Rudd are
the second Jewish duo to win
in the same year. In 1978,
the late opera singer Beverly
Sills and actor Richard
Dreyfuss, now 70, won. As
of 2018, 13 Jewish men and
10 Jewish women have won
the award.
Harvard was an all-male
college when Hasty Pudding,
a private club, began. Men
dressed as women to play
female characters in club
shows. Harvard admitted
women in 1977 (when it
merged with Radcliffe), but
men are still playing all the
women’s parts in club shows.
Pressure is building fast to
let “women play women.” A
star role in a Hasty produc-
tion can open professional
doors. Activists are trying to
get Kunis, among others, to
speak out about this.

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appeared in nine Super
Bowls, winning five (all
wins came in 2002 or
later).
Last year, I high-
lighted two players on
the Patriots: star receiver
Julian Edelman and
special teams’ superstar
Nate Ebner, 29. Edelman
tore his ACL in preseason
play and is out for this
season. Sadly, Ebner suf-
fered a knee injury in late
November and he, too, is
out for the season. Ebner
grew up in a religious
Jewish home. Edelman
had one Jewish great-
grandfather, but has called
himself Jewish and he’s
gone out of his way to
emphasize his ties to the
Jewish community.
Robert Kraft, 76, has
owned the Patriots since
1994. Kraft grew up in
an Orthodox home and is
an observant Jew whose
family fortune stems from
a paper-products compa-
ny (Kraft Group). His many
philanthropies include
education and health care.
His son Jonathan, 53, is
the president of the Kraft
Group and president of
the Patriots.
The Eagles are owned
by Jeffrey Lurie, 66, and
his ex-wife, Christina
Weiss Lurie, 66ish.
Lurie’s wealth stems from
a movie theater chain
founded by his grandfa-
ther. He grew up in the
Boston area and tried
to purchase the Patriots
in 1993 and bought the
Eagles in 1994. Jeffrey
and Christina divorced
in 2012, and she retains
substantial ownership in
the team. Despite her first
name, Christina’s parents
were both Jewish. In a
2010 interview, she said both she and
Jeffrey come from secular Jewish homes
and their practice of Judaism was limited
to Passover seders. Both have academic
backgrounds in film and she was a
documentary maker. Jeffrey is an active
Hollywood film producer. •

