Josh Tapper
By Josh Tapper
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The Schmooze ADL’s Take on Holocaust-Themed Video Game
The Anti-Defamation League once again looked to make an imprint on gaming culture by declaring a new Holocaust-themed, first-person shooter video game inappropriate. The game, called Sonderkommando Revolt, is set during the October 1944 Auschwitz uprising, which resulted in the death of over 400 Sonderkommando, Jewish concentration camp workers involved in the perpetration of Nazi…
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The Schmooze ‘Operation Ivy League’ Shuts Down Columbia Fraternities
A massive undercover drug bust on Columbia University’s uptown Manhattan campus – dubbed “Operation Ivy League” by police investigators – shut down three fraternities last week, including a chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi, the national Jewish fraternity. Investigators claim the bulk of drug traffic occurred in bedrooms and common areas of the three frat houses….
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The Schmooze Yarmulke Kerfuffle Leaves Fla. Panthers’ Fans Outraged
The latest egregious disappointment to hit the lowly Florida Panthers’ franchise has nothing to do with hockey. Panthers’ fans are (it baffles me to say) distraught and disappointed over a miscommunication surrounding a Tuesday night yarmulke giveaway, during what was billed as “the biggest Hanukkah party in South Florida.” The original press release stated all…
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The Schmooze Japanese Store Halts Sales of Nazi Costumes
With offices in Toronto, Buenos Aires and Paris, the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center keeps a vigilant eye on global anti-Semitism. And thanks to a wide and ardent network of supporters, its reach extends to the unlikeliest of places, like Japanese discount retail store Don Quijote Co. In a letter sent Monday to company executives,…
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The Schmooze Fashion Designer’s Nonsensical Anne Frank Interpretation May Sell T-Shirts
It may have only been a blip in the ironic T-shirt-clad world of hipsterdom, but if culture-tracking websites like Jezebel and Vice see it fit to run images of aleXsandro Palombo’s latest clothing designs, well, who are we to argue? The provocative, arguably iconoclastic, Italian designer and illustrator recently posted a set of politically charged…
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News Polish Jews Embrace Job of Cleanup and Restoration
During a 1988 visit to Nowy Dwór Mazowieck, the town in central Poland where his Holocaust survivor father grew up, David Wluka found a child’s skull lying, unearthed, at the site of what was once the town’s Jewish cemetery. He picked up the skull and smuggled it into the United States. Wluka gave the skull…
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The Schmooze An Interfaith Thanksgiving Celebration in Pleasantville
In a news year that’s brought us a fundamentalist, Koran-burning Christian preacher, pan-religious outcry against a proposed mosque near Ground Zero and threats of an exclusive Israeli conversion bill, leave it to the New York Times to celebrate the holiday season with a story about ecumenicalism. Deputy Metropolitan Editor Peter Applebome traveled to Pleasantville, N.Y….
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The Schmooze Scottish Soccer Club Accidentally Used Nazi Image on Program
Here in North America, sports franchises use the most obvious cover art for their game day programs. New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter fist-pumping after a playoff victory. Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson doused in champagne. Surely things are the same over in the UK, but last week Scottish soccer club Airdire United attempted…
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