Gabe Friedman
By Gabe Friedman
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Breaking News New York Mets Pitcher Steven Matz Keeps Getting Asked the ‘J Question’
(JTA) — It was a question fans were asking themselves last season during the team’s run to the World Series. Despite his surname, which is a syllable away from the word for unleavened Passover bread, the answer is no. But it turns out Matz gets the question all the time. So much so that when he met…
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The Schmooze In a Haifa Hair Salon, Arab and Jewish-Israeli Women Bond Over Shampoo
(JTA) — Jewish-Arab coexistence in Israel has never looked so sudsy. The New York Times opinion section on Tuesday featured part of “Women in Sink,” a short documentary set in a Christian-Arab hair salon in Haifa. The Jewish-Israeli filmmaker, Iris Zaki, wrote in the short essay accompanying the video that she initially set out to…
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The Schmooze On Bob Dylan’s 75th Birthday, Recalling When He Sang Israel’s Praises
(JTA) — “I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now,” Bob Dylan sang in 1964’s “My Back Pages.” Reverse-aging or no, the legendary Jewish folk singer turns 75 on Tuesday. While Dylan’s Jewishness has been examined and reexamined over the years, relatively little attention has been paid to his 1983 song “Neighborhood…
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The Schmooze Dating While (Modern) Orthodox Takes YouTube by Storm With ‘Soon by You’
(JTA) — “There’s no such thing as a bad date — there’s just a funny story,” says Jessica Schechter, a 28-year-old modern Orthodox woman who teaches acting in New York City and lives on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. There’s the guy who took her to the action figure section of a Toys “R” Us after dinner…
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Breaking News Trump Supporters Unleash Anti-Semitic Tweets at NY Times Editor
(JTA) — New York Times editor Jonathan Weisman is clearly familiar with the anti-Semitism of some Donald Trump supporters in the Twittersphere. So maybe he shouldn’t be surprised by the reaction to his own tweet calling them out for it. But it’s hard not to be a little shocked. On Thursday, Weisman referred to Trump’s…
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The Schmooze 7 Things About Goldie Michelson, the Oldest Person in America
(JTA) — After the death last week of 116-year-old Susannah Mushatt-Jones, a 113-year-old Jewish lady named Goldie Michelson became the oldest living person in the United States. Goldie (neé Corash), as most who know her call her, is in great shape for her age, but she’s a little hard of hearing these days. So, Renee…
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The Schmooze She Knows How To Look Gorgeous — Using Israeli Army Face Paint for Makeup
(JTA) — You may think camouflage face paint is about blending in. But done right, it can be the key to that standout military look you crave. Just ask American Israel Defense Forces soldier Hannah Laskow Defore. In a sendup of online makeup tutorials, the 19 year-old Los Angeles native, last week posted a Facebook…
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Opinion Watch How New York Reacts to This Jewish-Muslim Couple Experiment
(JTA) — What happens when a conspicuously Jewish-Muslim couple walks hand-in-hand through the streets of New York City? Three YouTube personalities set out to answer that question. Karim Metwaly teamed up with Alaaldeen Shehadeh and Moe Zahrieh for a video that has garnered nearly 1.3 million views since being posted last week. Last month, Shehadeh and…
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