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By Forward Staff
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The Schmooze Video: Drake’s ‘Re-Bar Mitzvah’
As part of what he’s calling a “re-commitment to the Jewish religion,” Drake has released a video featuring bagels, the Torah, Manischewitz, Lil Wayne in a panda mask and a whole lot of rapping in the synagogue. Is this guy for real? Watch him reading from the Torah and decide for yourself. WARNING: THE FOLLOWING…
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The Schmooze Out and About
Is the ex-Hasidic community about to get it’s own reality show? The founder of the Freelancers Union explains why Moses was the first Union representative in history. Celebrate Pesach, Andy Warhol style. Avi Steinberg gives his take on the New American Haggadah in the Boston Globe. Why the Seder is, or is not, based on…
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The Schmooze Out and About
Read the story behind Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soap and it’s founder, Emanuel Bronner, a third-generation Jewish soap maker from Germany. “Six,” a play by Forward contributor Zohar Tirosh-Polk, has won top prize at the Jewish Plays Project. Will Sarajevo lose its 660-year-old Haggadah? Canadian immigrant Kathleen Reiter stole the show on Israel’s “The Voice.” The…
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The Schmooze Out and About
An expedition is underway to recover hundred of millions of dollars worth of art stolen by Nazis, which is believed to be buried in a mine. A.B. Yehoshua imagines a meeting between David Ben Gurion and Ze’ev Jabotinsky. Guernica magazine interviews Forward opinion editor Gal Beckerman. The Montreal Review of Books looks at a history…
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The Schmooze Out and About
The Jewish Museum shows how it created a 35-foot-tall wallscape in Soho for the current Kehinde Wiley exhibition. “Mad Men” creator Matthew Wiener is set to direct “You Are Here,” a film starring Owen Wilson and Zach Galifianakis. One school in Toronto is reviving 400-year-old Passover songs that haven’t been heard since 1644. Lianne Stokes…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Bridge Gunman Admits Targeting Jews
The gunman who opened fire on a van filled with ultra-Orthodox Jews on the Brooklyn Bridge in 1994 has reportedly finally admitted he wanted to kill Jews. After years of spinning excuses, Rashid Baz told investigators he fired on the van, killing 16-year-old Ari Halberstam, on March 1, 1994 to avenge Israeli actions against the…
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The Schmooze Out and About
Ruth R. Wisse and Samuel Leivick, son of Yiddish writer H. Leivick, trade barbs in the Jewish Review of Books. Menachem Wecker takes a look at the hyper-realistic paintings of Max Ferguson. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation interviews trumpeter Frank London. Adam Levin’s new collection of stories, “Hot Pink,” is reviewed by Peter Orner in The…
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Fast Forward Santorum Scores Big Win in Louisiana
Conservative Rick Santorum scored an impressive victory over Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney in Louisiana, although Romney maintains a healthy lead in the all-important delegate count. Santorum won about 91,000 votes, or about 49%, in the primary, compared to just 49,000, or 26%, for Romney, Politico reported. Newt Gingrich was far behind with 17% and Ron…
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