Alice Walker has refused to allow a new Hebrew translation of her Pulitzer-winning novel, “The Color Purple” to be published in Israel, which she says is “guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people.” full story ![]()

Despite the extreme poverty and racism she experienced as the daughter of sharecroppers, Pulitizer-Prize winning novelist Alice Walker remembers her childhood fondly in her appearance on Makers, a new video initiative profiling inspirational women of the past and present. But an experience Walker had on her way to college set her on the path to become the accomplished writer...
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You have a passion for purple. You want purple in what you wear. You want it in your jewelry, but besides asking for purple, you don't know what to ask for. Purple is a color...
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Playboy's time-honoured blend of soft-porn and literary gravitas will be replicated in Hebrew for the first time when the magazine's debut Israeli version is launched.
telegraph.co.uk (2 months and 22 days ago)
Singer Carole King is 71. Actor Joe Pesci is 70. Author Alice Walker (“The Color Purple”) is 69. Actress Mia Farrow is 68. Actress Judith Light is 64. Saxophonist Dennis “DT” Thomas of Kool and the Gang is 62. Actor Charles Shaughnessy (“The Nanny”) is 58. Actress Julie Warner (“Family Law”) is 48. Actor Charlie Day (”It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”) is 37. Actor A.J....
miamiherald.com (3 months and 15 days ago)
Alice M. McDonald, 79, passed away Monday, May 20, 2013, in Medina. She was born January 24, 1934 in Manhattan, New York, to the late John and Alice (Walker) Lyman. Alice was a former social worker in New York City, and also worked at the Chase Manhattan Bank and the May Company. She was an active ...Read More
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March 7 - The first Hebrew version of Playboy magazine is launched in Israel. Tara Cleary reports.
reuters.com (2 months and 19 days ago)
Ernie Crediford was hiking Badger Mountain on Memorial Day a few years back and noticed purple sage in bloom. The color reminded him of the Purple Heart medal given to…Click to Continue »
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JERUSALEM — A how-to book translated into Hebrew aims to teach Israel's Orthodox Jews about sex, targeting an audience typically mum on the steamy subject.The book, "The Newlywed's Guide to Physical Intimacy," was published in English more than a year ago in the U.S. The Hebrew version is set to come out this month, meant for Israel's Orthodox Jews, who make up about a...
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We've all gotten used to Kelly Osbourne's purple hair, a mainstay on E!'s "Fashion Police" since the host dyed it three years ago. As it turns out, Kelly's bosses at E! have taken to the bold color as well -- so much so that they've forbade her from changing it. As Osbourne told a crowd at this week's Lucky FABB Conference: "I'm contracted to this hair color... I can't...
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Sony Xperia Z is already available globally in black and white paintjobs, but the purple version is yet to be released. Clove UK has just announced it will receive purple Sony Xperia Z stock in early April and is already taking orders for it. The purple Xperia Z costs the same as the black and white units. Sony has announced the Xperia Z in three colors - black, white and...
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