NEW YORK -- Among the more popular U.S. Olympians is Aly Raisman, an 18-year-old Jewish gymnast from the Boston area whose star has been rising in London for a few reasons. First it was her song choice for the floor exercise routine -- an instrumental...

In her television studio in El Segundo, Roseanne Barr is singing the Israeli national anthem - and it's good."If I asked you to sing ‘Hatikvah,' would you slug me?" I had hesitantly asked her, remembering her screeching mangling of "The Star-Spangled...