34 July 4 • 2019
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AT THE MOVIES
Opening last Tuesday, July 2, was 
Spiderman: Far From Home. The film takes 
place shortly after the events in Avengers: 
Endgame. Peter Parker (AKA Spiderman) 
is still mourning the death of 
his mentor, Avengers’
 leader 
Tony Stark, AKA Iron Man, 
when he is recruited by Nick 
Fury to team up with Quentin 
Beck, AKA Mysterio, a master 
of trickery and illusion to 
battle the Elementals. Tom 
Holland plays Spiderman; 
Samuel L. Jackson plays 
Fury; and Jake Gyllenhaal, 
38, plays Mysterio. Jon 
Favreau, 52, appears as 
Happy Hogan, the former 
chief aide of Stark, and now 
a mentor of Parker. 
It’
s a busy month for 
Favreau. He directed a 
new version of The Lion 
King, which opens July 
19. Favreau is the son of a 
mostly Italian non-Jewish 
father and a Jewish mother. 
His mother died when he 
was 12. 
 His whole extended family, on both 
sides, cooperated in making sure he had 
a bar mitzvah, as his mother wished. A 
practicing Jew, Favreau and his wife of 

19 years, physician Joya Tillem, 49, have 
three children.

BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE
Karlie Kloss, 26, made the news last 
week when she and her husband, busi-
nessman Joshua Kushner, 33, had a 
big “post-wedding” party in Wyoming. 
They were married in a small 
Jewish ceremony in July 2018 
after six years of dating. Kloss 
converted to Judaism, under 
Orthodox auspices, before 
the wedding. You don’
t hear 
that much about Joshua, the 
brother of Jared Kushner, 
38. While the brothers both 
married women who con-
verted to Judaism, they don’
t 
agree politically (Joshua is 
a Democrat). It appears that 
family peace is maintained 
by Joshua not talking much 
about politics, his brother or 
President Trump. 
Guests danced the hora 
at the “post” party. Notable 
celeb guests included Mila 
Kunis, 35, and her hubbie, 
longtime Kaballah student 
Ashton Kutcher; singer Katy 
Perry; and designer Diane 
Von Furstenberg, 72. Von 
Furstenberg’
s Greek Jewish 
mother survived Auschwitz. The Kushner 
brothers’
 grandparents were Holocaust 
survivors, too. ■

NATE BLOOM

COLUMNIST

Jon Favreau

PHOTO VIA FAVREAU FACEBOOK

Karlie Kloss

PHOTO VIA KLOSS FACEBOOK

F

ormer Detroiter Jennifer 
Hurvitz, author of the 
best-selling self-help book One 
Happy Divorce: Hold 
the Bulls#!t, released 
her second book, woul-
da. coulda. shoulda. A 
divorce coach’
s guide to 
staying married (Warren 
Publishing). 
She will be appearing 
July 9 at Temple Israel 
in West Bloomfield. The 
evening will start with 
a pre-glow at 6:30 p.m. 
with Hurvitz, including 
wine, appetizers and dessert ($20). 
She will speak at 7:30 p.m. free of 
charge. 
Well-known for her humor and 

candor about all things divorce and 
relationships, Hurvitz is the voice 
behind the popular Doing Divorce 
Right podcast and author 
of the popular blog, The 
Truth Hurvitz. 
Her new book takes 
a different approach, 
instead of focusing on 
married couples who 
want to stay married. 
Sharing personal experi-
ences and laugh-out-loud 
insights from her own 
divorce journey, Hurvitz 
paints an honest (at times 
brutally so) picture of what it’
s like 
to be divorced, and tips for how to 
avoid it. ■

Register for the event at temple-israel.org. 

 
Author Hurvitz to Share 
Latest Book at Temple Israel

Jennifer Hurvitz

PHOTO VIA HURVITZ FACEBOOK

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