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Jenna Jameson Converting to Judaism

Well, all righty, then. From the Jerusalem Post:

It’s a scene most Jewish families are familiar with: a table laid with two homemade challahs, Shabbat candles, a kiddush cup and an impressive spread of food. The catch? This image was posted online by Jenna Jameson, arguably the world’s most famous former porn star.

“Here is a little image from last Shabbat!!!” the 41-year-old mostly-retired actress wrote next to the photo she posted on Twitter and Instagram. “I made home made Chilean sea bass chraimeh, potato pancakes, Israeli salad and yummy challah!”

While Jameson has in the past described herself as a devout Catholic, things are apparently taking a turn, as she wrote on social media that she is currently converting to Judaism for her Israeli-born boyfriend.

On Tuesday she posted a photo of a box of Strauss popsicles exported from Israel that she bought at a local market, writing in Hebrew that they were “taim” (tasty).

When one follower invited her to visit Israel, she wrote in Hebrew: “I’m coming to Israel soon,” and told another “b’ezrat Hashem.”

Among her undoubteldy risque postings of photos from her past work, Jameson also posted a picture of a slow cooker filled with cholent bubbling away, surrounding by Pereg-brand spices and Osem kosher soup mixes. “Cooked my first Shabbat dinner tonight,” she wrote.

Jameson’s fiancé is reportedly 41-year-old Lior Bitton, a Herzliya native who works in the diamond business in Los Angeles, where they both live.

These days Jameson is venturing into the mainstream film world, and has just been cast in an indie drama called Limelight. If you’re still looking for more information on her – Google at your own risk.

Photo: Jenna Jameson
Jenna Jameson . (photo credit:VALERIE MACON / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)

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How Interesting

From the NY Times:

Ratings Bounce for Radio Stations That Turned to Classic Hip-Hop

By BEN SISARIO DECEMBER 25, 2014 10:00 AM

Photo: Jay Rio of Boom 92 Classic Hip Hop
Jay Rio, the radio personality of Boom 92 Classic Hip-Hop, in the studio at Radio One Houston.Credit Michael Stravato for The New York Times

Two months ago, a Houston radio station changed its format from news to “classic hip-hop” — meaning lots of LL Cool J, Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. — and kicked off a broadcasting frenzy.

Since that station, KROI-FM — owned by the Radio One chain and now known as Boom 92 — changed over, big broadcasters around the country like iHeartMedia and Cumulus Media have quickly followed with their own variations on the new format. This week Nielsen released numbers for three of Radio One’s stations, and while the results are promising, there is some cause for concern.

Once its format flipped KROI’s audience more than tripled, going from 245,000 to 802,000, and its share — meaning the percentage of radios in use and tuned to a station — went from 1.0 to 3.2, according to Nielsen. In Philadelphia, WPHI-FM, which became Boom Philly on Nov. 6, grew from 534,000 in the month immediately before the change to 736,000 after. (Radio One had timed that change exactly to Nielsen’s ratings period.) KSOC-FM in Dallas, which turned on Nov. 14, went from 524,000 to 724,000.

Radio executives say that more classic hip-hop stations are expected around the country in the new year. But one piece of data about KROI in Houston throws some cold water on the excitement. Although that station’s audience grew quickly when the new format was introduced, it fell slightly the following month. In the four-week ratings period that began Nov. 6, the station’s audience declined by 2.6 percent to 781,000, and its share dropped from 3.2 to 2.9.

That suggests that after an initial explosion — and a great deal of local and national attention in the news media — some listeners moved on to other things.

Classic and Hardcore Hip Hop Music, and Urban Subculture