Lana Adler
By Lana Adler
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Opinion Stop History From Repeating Itself: Trump’s 5 Biggest Immigration Myths Debunked
This election cycle, immigration has been a major focus issue. One candidate in particular has been using incendiary tropes and rhetoric in order to gain the votes of the fearful and the xenophobic. From allegations about the criminality of Mexican immigrants and the terrorist allegiances of Muslims to grand plans for delusional border walls, Donald…
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Opinion Tough Decisions: Reproductive Choice and Jewish Genetics
As Sarah and her husband were checking off last-minute wedding preparations and appointments, they got a suggestion from their rabbi. He asked them if they’d been genetically tested for diseases common among Ashkenazi Jews. The couple, both Ashkenazim, took the rabbi’s advice and headed to their local JCC for a blood test. They figured it…
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Life How the ‘Knocked’ Up Sexism Debacle Exemplifies Misogyny in Hollywood
A lot is being said about what Seth Rogen said on Monday while on Howard Stern’s radio show regarding his nearly 10 year long feud with “Knocked Up” co-star Katherine Heigl. Heigl made a comment in 2008 in a Vanity Fair interview, to the effect that the film was “a little sexist” for “painting women…
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The Schmooze Ira Glass and Mike Birbiglia Talk Shop About New Movie
In a recent interview with the Huffington Post, “This American Life” creator Ira Glass and comedian Mike Birbiglia talked comedy, improv, the creative process and what it means to give up on your dreams in a discussion about their new movie, “Don’t Think Twice.” The movie, which was written by Birbiglia and produced by Glass,…
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The Schmooze Winona Ryder: Actress, 90s Icon, Constitutional Scholar?
Winona Ryder has recently come back into the spotlight after something of a hiatus from show business, blowing audiences away with her performance as frantic but determined mother Joyce Byers in the Netflix series “Stranger Things.” As part of her re-emergence, Ryder (born Winona Horowitz) gave an interview to New York Magazine’s Heather Havrilesky, in…
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The Schmooze ‘Ranch it Up!’ Eric Andre Show Returns for Season Four
Comedy fans, get pumped: The Eric Andre Show returns for its fourth season tonight (or, technically, tomorrow) at 12AM on Adult Swim. Andre, who identifies as “Bluish” (Jewish mom, Haitian dad), has a uniquely outrageous style that evades description, but suffice it to say, it’s absolute gold. Here’s a clip of one of his amazingly…
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Opinion 4 Things To Remember About Pope Francis’s Visit to Auschwitz
Pope Francis made a visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau Friday. The spiritual leader of the world’s Catholics silently reflected, met with Jewish and Christian survivors of the death camp, and left a note in the guestbook, which read: “Lord, have mercy on your people! Lord, forgiveness for so much cruelty!” There’s a lot to be said about…
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Opinion 4 Ways Michelle Obama’s Speech Spoke to Jewish Values
Michelle Obama absolutely blew the nation away with her front-and-center speech at the Democratic National Convention on Monday night. In a convention fraught with stressors like the Debbie Wasserman Schultz fiasco and lingering Bernie supporters in the throes of their histrionics, FLOTUS’s speech offered some much-needed unifying sentiments that the vast majority of people tuning…
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