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Shimon Peres and Barbra Streisand, BFF

Your Friday video comes from the Israeli President’s big birthday week

by
Stephanie Butnick
June 21, 2013
Barbra Streisand Attends Make-A-Wish Foundation Event In Jerusalem With Shimon Peres. (GPO via Getty Image)
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 chief strategy officer of Tablet Magazine, co-founder of Tablet Studios, and a host of the Unorthodox podcast.