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David Copperfield in New York City, Nov. 7, 2016. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)
April 21, 2018, 2:36 am
David Copperfield forced to reveal signature trick by lawsuit
Audience member claims he suffered brain and body injuries while participating in show
By JTA
Israeli mentalist Lior Suchard, right, gestures as he stands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the annual toast with the foreign media in Jerusalem, January 10, 2018. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov)
January 11, 2018, 9:06 pm
Netanyahu drawing stumps mentalist Lior Suchard
PM had apparently agreed to make a sketch on stage, but then showed up with the doodle already in his pocket
By TOI staff
A bronze statue of the Satanic icon Baphomet, currently residing in a shed outside The Satanic Temple in Salem, Massachusetts (Courtesy)
October 26, 2016, 4:36 pm
In haunted Salem, a Jewish church founder preaches the art of ‘Satanic’ social change
At a former funeral home in a town inextricably linked to witchcraft, secular Jew Malcolm Jarry opens a new heaquarters for his Satanic Temple, a controversial movement with up to 50,000 members worldwide
By Matt Lebovic
Lior Suchard and Barbra Streisand (courtesy)
August 25, 2016, 7:32 pm
When Barbra Streisand went ‘mental’ for an Israeli mind-reader
Meet Lior Suchard, the mentalist who just wrapped a month of halftime performances on Babs's concert tour
By Matt Lebovic
File: In this Thursday, April 1, 2010 file photo, activists from a civil organization reenact an execution scene in front of the Saudi Arabia Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, as they protest a possible beheading of a Lebanese man accused of witchcraft in Saudi Arabia. (AP/Bilal Hussein, File)
August 23, 2016, 7:13 pm
Saudi jails man for ‘using sorcerer to bewitch employer’
Egyptian sentenced to 6 years for witchcraft, passing military info to Iran and violating labor laws
By AP and TOI staff
Author Helen Maryles Shankman brings X-Men sensibilities to Holocaust horrors in Wlodawa, Poland. (courtesy)
May 27, 2016, 5:31 pm
Raised with miracle of parents’ survival, author writes magical Holocaust tales
With the X-Men and vampires as her influences, Helen Maryles Shankman brings 'fabulist' realism to Wlodawa, Poland
By Matt Lebovic
Israeli magician Cagliostro sets Guinness world record by teaching a card trick to 1,576 school children in Haifa, June 1, 2015. (Courtesy of Beit HaGefen)
June 1, 2015, 7:39 pm
Israeli magician sets Guinness record
Israel Cagliostro teaches 1,576 Haifa school children a peace-themed card trick
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Magician Ran Gafner performs a close-up trick at a patron's table. (photo credit: photo by Shivi Isman)
November 4, 2014, 7:30 pm
And now for the next trick, making Hebrew disappear
It's no Hogwarts, but Sorcerers’ Night, a magical comedy act, is shuffling the deck on English-language entertainment in Tel Aviv
By Debra Kamin
A Hamsa in the Zichron Tuvia neighborhood (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)
November 1, 2014, 9:46 am
The devil is in the details on a magical mystery tour of Jerusalem
Tales from the dark side as our travel guru chases demons, counters curses, tests potions, and discovers the advantages of giving birth to ugly babies
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
Bette Midler in the 1993 film 'Hocus Pocus,' a comedic twist on the Salem witch trials of 1692 (photo courtesy: Walt Disney Pictures)
October 31, 2014, 4:26 pm
More than ‘Hocus Pocus’ to Salem’s Jewish past
Biblical history and Mosaic Law permeated the lives -- and deaths -- of the Massachusetts Bay community which would not 'suffer a witch to live'
By Matt Lebovic
Author Ari Goelman is a big fan of Jewish summer camp and fantasy fiction. (Courtesy. Photo credit: John Goldsmith Photography)
May 1, 2013, 4:32 am
A Jewish Harriet Potter
New Scholastic release 'The Path of Names' is a mystical mainstream fantasy novel for preteens set at a Jewish sleep-away camp in rural Pennsylvania
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Publicity photo of magician David Copperfield (born David Kotkin) in 1977. (photo credit: CC BY Wikipedia)
April 30, 2013, 3:46 pm
Iranians accuse Jews of witchcraft
'The Jews have the greatest powers of sorcery' and are 'subjecting us,' says close associate of supreme leader
By Gavriel Fiske
Magician David Blaine stands inside an apparatus surrounded by a million volts of electric currents streamed by Tesla coils during his 72-hour "Electrified: 1 Million Volts Always On" stunt on Pier 54, Friday, Oct. 5, 2012 (photo credit: AP/John Minchillo)
October 9, 2012, 5:47 am
David Blaine wraps up high-voltage stunt in NYC
After 3 days surrounded by 1,000,000 volts of electric currents, magician kisses fiancée, heads to hospital for check up
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