{"id":2246,"date":"2008-09-11T11:06:02","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T11:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2008\/09\/hollywood-heavy-hitters-like-v.html"},"modified":"2008-09-11T11:06:02","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T11:06:02","slug":"hollywood-heavy-hitters-like-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2008\/09\/hollywood-heavy-hitters-like-v.html","title":{"rendered":"Jon Voight and Adam Sandler to Attend Chabad Telethon"},"content":{"rendered":"<form mt:asset-id=\"1186\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"jonvoightpicforic.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/imgs\/jonvoightpicforic.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"209\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/form>\n<p>When you think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chabad.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chabad,<\/a> the religious Jewish outreach organization that creates Jewish community centers in various places all over the world, you probably think about one name&#8230;Jon Voight.You don&#8217;t? Well, you should, and you will, since Voight&#8211;a Catholic&#8211;has been working on behalf of the organization for years, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/09082008\/gossip\/pagesix\/hava_nagila_128047.htm\" target=\"_blank\">has appeared on their annual Hollywood blowout of a telethon for the last fifteen years<\/a> (think of it, that was before any of us had heard the two words &#8220;Angelina Jolie&#8221;). Check out this promo clip for this year&#8217;s telethon, in which Voight tells a tale of being recognized by someone for his work with the organization.<center><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YeohgG7zYcg&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YeohgG7zYcg&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center>The telethon has become an annual Hollywood event, a chance for celebs like Robin Williams, Adam Sandler and Jimmy Kimmel to get shticky for charity.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LHcirV6q9G0\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s a clip <\/a> from a previous telethon starring the cast of &#8220;Friends,&#8221; and then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4vFzuqMBrCA&#038;feature=related\" target=\"_blank\">don&#8217;t miss this blooper<\/a> from the same group. Matt LeBlanc apparently became a Chabad favorite&#8230;here he is with <strike>Adriana<\/strike> Drea DeMatteo doing a promo from 2007:<center><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3GZvwG7qK7Q&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3GZvwG7qK7Q&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.locatetv.com\/person\/jon-voight\/18882\" target=\"_top\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.locatetv.com\/person\/jon-voight\/18882\/351x85_belief.gif\" alt=\"Jon-Voight at LocateTV.com\" title=\"Click to see LocateTV results for Jon-Voight. 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