{"id":34925,"date":"2014-02-13T17:59:58","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T17:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=34925"},"modified":"2014-02-18T17:44:20","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T17:44:20","slug":"zach-braff-stars-new-ad-yeshiva-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/news-op-ed\/zach-braff-stars-new-ad-yeshiva-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Braff Stars in New Ad for Yeshiva University"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_34926\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 300px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/files\/braff.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-post-34925 wp-image-34926 \" alt=\"braff\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/files\/braff.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Zach Braff in an ad for Yeshiva University.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The popular actor, famous for his role as Dr. John Dorian in the television show &#8220;Scrubs,&#8221; is part of Yeshiva University&#8217;s &#8220;Nowhere But Here&#8221; campaign. The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qVUrZ-nA6hA\">video<\/a>, part ad, part Purim Shpiel, has Braff talking about where he went for a great Jewish and secular education. (Braff, who describes\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zach_Braff\">himself<\/a>\u00a0as having a strong &#8220;Conservative\/Orthodox upbringing,&#8221; actually went to Northwestern University.) The best comment so far came from Rabbi Eliyahu Fink of the Pacific Jewish Center in Venice Beach, CA, who wonders if Mad Men&#8217;s Don Draper will be in an advertisement for Beth Medrash Govoha.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qVUrZ-nA6hA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The popular actor, famous for his role as Dr. John Dorian in the television show &#8220;Scrubs,&#8221; is part of Yeshiva University&#8217;s &#8220;Nowhere But Here&#8221; campaign. 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(Braff, who describes\u00a0himself\u00a0as having a strong &#8220;Conservative\/Orthodox upbringing,&#8221; actually went<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":730,"featured_media":34928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-op-ed"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Zach Braff Stars in New Ad for Yeshiva University - OU Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/news-op-ed\/zach-braff-stars-new-ad-yeshiva-university\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Zach Braff Stars in New Ad for Yeshiva University - OU Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The popular actor, famous for his role as Dr. John Dorian in the television show &#8220;Scrubs,&#8221; is part of Yeshiva University&#8217;s &#8220;Nowhere But Here&#8221; campaign. 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