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Saturday, March 22, 2008

Hasidic actor Abe Karpen makes it into the Time Magazine 

It just won't go away.


Aspiring actor and Hasidic Jew Abe Karpen has quit his role as Natalie Portman's husband in the film New York, I Love You under pressure from Hasidic rabbis, whose strict interpretation of Judaism forbids watching movies or TV.

http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1638826_1724652_1724648,00.html

Comments:
Maybe he was doing kiruv on Natalie! What is her Jewish name?

 

Good for Abe and his aspirations. He and Lipa should continue to strive what they feel is honest. What did Abe's wife think about this gig?

 

They make a cute couple......
I would love to play Natalie
husband if only for a day.

 

I wonder if he will really give this up. If he does I give him a lot of credit. To have tasted the glamor and all the attention, and then give it all up just for your wife and kids? wow. How come he did not think of them before he took this route. Maybe he thought nobody in the community will find out. Maybe he did not really care how his wife feels about it. It his hard to imagine a typical young women in willy to go along with this. This world is and always was a very challenging world. It is very hard to keep going in the right path when the yetzar harah always makes everything look kosher , by saying what is the big deal.

 

the medrash talks about people going in public with their wives and in secrecy with their pilegesh this menuval does the exact opposite -dor tahfoochos haynu

 

I hope he goes to seek counseling from the famous Steven Hill from monsey who also was in the movies and still is with the backing of the skvereh Rebbe

 

HOW CAN YOU COMPARE ST HILL WITH THIS GUY. I THINK, CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG , HILL DID THIS BEFORE HE BECAME FRUM HE ASKED IF HE MAY CONTINUE AND WAS TOLD UNDER WHAT CONDITIONS HE MAY CONTINUE BECAUSE THIS WAS HIS WAY OF MAKING MONEY AND FOR WHATEVER REASON HIS REBBE TOLD HIM TO CONTINUE. EVERYONE NEEDS TO CONSULT HIS REBBE FOR WHATEVER HIS SITUATION IS. I DO NOT THINK THIS PERSON ASKED HIS REBBE IF HE SHOULD DO THIS TO MAKE A LIVING. WHAT IS OK FOR ONE IS NOT OK FOR THE OTHER

 

I WRITE THIS TO MRS KARPEN,

THIS MUST BE VERY HARD FOR YOU. ALL THE ATTENTION THAT YOU DID NOT ASK FOR. ALL THE ADVICE YOU DO NOT WANT.
I KNOW THAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO GET PAST THIS. HASEM WILL GIVE YOU THE KOACH TO GO ON. THIS HAS NO REFLECTION ON YOU WHAT'S SO EVER.

 

Abe Karpen,
If you donate a million or 2 to the skver dynasty i guarentee the Rebbe will let you perform just like he let Steven hill .

 

Abe Karpen,
If you donate a million or 2 to the skver dynasty i guarentee the Rebbe will let you perform just like he let Steven hill .

March 23, 2008 11:03 PM
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Gelt. That is all that counts these days... Oy Ge(va)lt!!

 

Lipa's song everyone;
"VUSS TIT MEN NISHT FAR GELLTT"

 

I know Avrumi Karpen personally, and he is a great guy. You New Yorkers must take a chill, and by the way, if Steven Hill was not Frum when he did Mission Impossible, why did his contract stipulate that he dosn't have to work on Friday afternoons and Saturdays??

 

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