Move your spoons over, Uri Geller—there’s a new magical Jew in town. Columnist Amanda Scarpone of Broadwayworld.com gives The Mentalizer a glowing review, calling the show’s mind-reading, fork-bending star, Ehud Segev, “the Jewish David Blaine.”
(Oops, Amanda, David Blaine is Jewish. Well, half. You could call Segev “the totally Jewish David Blaine”, but that sounds silly.)
Segev’s bio says he’s born-and-bred Kabbalist (he grew up Safed, the bellybutton of Kabbalah study) and at just 25 has harnessed the powers of the universe to create quite a show. According to his personal web site though, he’s been a struggling actor persuing soap opera roles and an independent film maker as well as a poet. And then we found another link for his graphic design company.
But it sounds like this enterprising young man finally found his niche.