Samara Abramson

Not your average Brooklyn hipster: Meet Meir Kalmanson

By Samara Abramson May 2, 2016

  At first glance, you might think Meir Kalmanson is just another 25-year-old hipster filmmaker from Brooklyn. But if you take a closer look, you’ll find that he’s far from typical. Kalmanson was born into the Chabad Lubavitch movement, which is a sect of ultra-Orthodox Hasidism — and the largest and fastest-growing Jewish organization in…

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Max Kessler: Adam Sandler character, or doppelgänger?

By Samara Abramson April 27, 2016

  Max Kessler looks exactly like Adam Sandler. The name of Adam Sandler’s character in his new movie is Max Kessler. This is wild. And it’s already gone viral on Reddit. Meet the one, the only, The Real Max Kessler.   Samara Abramson is a graduate student at Columbia University.

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