Shimon Peres and Barbra Streisand, BFF
Your Friday video comes from the Israeli President’s big birthday week
June 21, 2013
Barbra Streisand Attends Make-A-Wish Foundation Event In Jerusalem With Shimon Peres. (GPO via Getty Image)
Shimon Peres celebrated his 90th birthday in style, with a party earlier this week attended by Bill Clinton, Robert De Niro, and Sharon Stone. But the biggest gift of all came from the newly minted Dr. Barbra Streisand, who performed at the event.
She told the crowd all she remembered from her yeshiva days was ‘Ma nishtana ha-laila ha-zeh,’ and then launched into a moving rendition of “Avinu Malkeinu,” which Peres had requested:
Stephanie Butnick is the founder of GOLDA, a Jewish lifestyle newsletter. She hosted the Tablet podcast Unorthodox, co-authored The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia: From Abraham to Zabar’s and Everything in Between, and worked as a writer and editor at Tablet.
