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gothamist.com - 3/15/2008
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Not many people would leave a role as Natalie Portman's husband in a film, but Williamsburg resident Abe Karpen has to do just that. Karpen, who is a Hasidic Jew, told the Daily News , "It's not acceptable in my community. It's a lot of pressure I am getting. They [the rabbis] didn't like the idea of a Hasidic guy playing in Hollywood."
Portman and Karpen had been filming a short called ...
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... for the weekend (a friend said, "The community wants to kill him"). One Hasidic acitvist told the News, "We don't watch television. We don't go to the movies, so to be in a movie is the worst thing. It's a shame for any Hasid." This is probably why the Law & Order: SVU episode involving the Hasidic community had actors wearing, as Television Without Pity put it, "really junky-looking fake beards...it looks like they raided a ZZ Top cover band's tour bus." Source WTF??!! They want to kill him?!!
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