{"id":8878,"date":"2013-08-22T07:20:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T13:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=8878"},"modified":"2013-08-23T11:26:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T17:26:58","slug":"obama-golfs-with-larry-david-kathie-lees-rabbinical-aspirations-rivers-reality-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/obama-golfs-with-larry-david-kathie-lees-rabbinical-aspirations-rivers-reality-romance\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama golfs with Larry David, Kathie Lee&#8217;s rabbinical aspirations, Rivers&#8217; reality romance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By SIX DEGREES (No Bacon) STAFF<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (6NoBacon Staff) &#8212; President Obama closed out his vacation on Martha\u2019s Vineyard with what was likely a very funny round of golf.<\/p>\n<p>According to CNN, the president teed off on Saturday at Farm Neck Golf Club with Larry David, co-creator of \u201cSeinfeld\u201d and creator of \u201cCurb Your Enthusiasm.\u201d David\u2019s latest project, the HBO movie \u201cClear History,\u201d is set in Martha\u2019s Vineyard.<\/p>\n<p>The foursome also included private equity investor Glenn Hutchins and former U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kathie Lee wants to be a rabbi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hosting the \u201cToday Show\u201d is a pretty good gig, but it seems Kathie Lee Gifford has loftier plans for the future. While celebrating her 60th birthday on the air last Friday, Gifford revealed her dream of becoming a \u2026rabbi. Really. She said it herself.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8917\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/KLG.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8917\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8917 lazyload\" title=\"KLG\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/KLG-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/KLG-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/KLG-680x1024.jpg 680w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 199px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 199\/300;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8917\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8917 \" title=\"KLG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/KLG-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/KLG-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/KLG-680x1024.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-8917\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;Today Show&quot; host Kathie Lee Gifford, shown at an Us Weekly event in New York in September 2012, expressed her desire to become a rabbi. (Anna Webber\/Getty)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Here\u2019s how it went down: A 60-year-old viewer posted on Facebook about going back to college later in life, prompting a conversation between Gifford and co-host Hoda Kotb about whether or not they would ever do the same.<\/p>\n<p>While Kotb said she was uninterested in going back to school, Gifford would love a return. And she has a very specific institution in mind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to go to Yeshiva University and become a rabbi,\u201d Gifford, a born-again Christian with Jewish roots, said without missing a beat. \u201cI want to get my Orthodox rabbinical degree.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She added, I want to understand what words mean, what all the context is. I\u2019m so fascinated by that stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gifford probably won\u2019t have much luck getting into Y.U., but she should definitely try Yeshivat Maharat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rivers going to &#8216;man candy&#8217; store<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t \u201cThe Bachelorette\u201d be hilarious if it starred Joan Rivers? If you answered in the affirmative, here&#8217;s some good news: After 15 lonely years being single, the perennially busy comedian will be hunting for love on a web series for She Knows TV called \u201cRomancing the Joan.\u201d Or, as we like to call it, the best title of any reality show ever.<\/p>\n<p>According to the promo, Rivers will be selecting from a \u201cman candy\u201d pool of \u201ceight eligible (and yummy) bachelors\u201d who will be \u201cparading around in front of Rivers in an effort to win her heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If that already sounds vaguely icky, just wait: Joan\u2019s daughter, Melissa, is hosting the steamy production.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of them were so young! It was gross,\u201d Melissa said. \u201cI mean, do they even know how old my mother is?\u201d (FYI to any interested young men out there, she\u2019s 80.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRomancing the Joan\u201d premieres in September.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aronofsky&#8217;s espionage film<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For those who like their spy films dark and surreal, here&#8217;s something to look forward to soon: According to Deadline, Darren Aronofsky (\u201cRequiem for a Dream,\u201d \u201cThe Wrestler,\u201d \u201cBlack Swan\u201d) is in talks to direct \u201cRed Sparrow,\u201d an adaptation of an espionage novel.<\/p>\n<p>The book is about an intelligence officer in modern-day Russia forced to become a \u201csparrow,\u201d aka a \u201ctrained seductress.\u201d Things get hot and crazy when she is assigned to go up against a (male) CIA mole.<\/p>\n<p>This would be the Jewish director\u2019s first project since wrapping up \u201cNoah.\u201d Yes, that Noah. The biblical epic, starring Anthony Hopkins, Emma Watson, Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly, hits theaters on March 28.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest Jewish celebrity news, visit JTA&#8217;s 6 Degrees (No Bacon) blog.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Obama%20golfs%20with%20Larry%20David%2C%20Kathie%20Lee%27s%20rabbinical%20aspirations%2C%20Rivers%27%20reality%20romance\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3560,3563,8790,8795,2257,3562,3559,8788,312,3561],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8878"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8916,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878\/revisions\/8916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}