Laura Sinberg
By Laura Sinberg
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The Schmooze Nazi-Naming Parents Should Lose Custody of Children, Court Says
It looks like baby Hitler won’t be coming home anytime soon. And when we say Hitler, we of course mean the 4-year-old boy — full name, Adolf Hitler Campbell — whose nazi-obsessed parents branded him with the unfortunate handle. A state appeals court in New Jersey has ruled that Heath and Deborah Campbell will not…
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The Schmooze Jennifer Aniston Channels Barbra Streisand!
We just love these photos! Jennifer Aniston transformed into our favorite “Funny Girl” in a glamorous photo shoot for the September issue of Harper’s Bazaar. (See the pics here) Barbra Streisand, for her part, was so flattered that she posted this comment to her website yesterday afternoon: I was very flattered that Jennifer Aniston chose…
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The Schmooze Paul Rudd Bat Mitzvah Video Makes the Rounds
Last night “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” debuted the Forward’s now-famous Paul Rudd bat mitzvah video, of the “Dinner for Schmucks” star making a living as a DJ in the early 90s. Check out the hilarious clip below (Rudd appears at the very end, after all the other brouhaha). We just love the jacket!
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The Schmooze Charles Bronfman Prize Names Two Recipients
The Charles Bronfman Prize has named its 2010 recipients, and there are two of them. The prizes, along with two $100,000 awards, will be given to Sasha Chanoff, founder and executive director of Mapendo International, for his efforts rescuing and resettling at-risk and forgotten African refugees, and Jared Genser, founder and president of Freedom Now,…
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The Schmooze Journalists, Public Figures Turn Out To Honor Seth Lipsky
It was a veritable who’s who of public figures and newspaper titans Wednesday night at the Harvard Club in Manhattan as Seth Lipsky — formidable Wall Street Journal writer and editor, and founder and editor of the New York Sun and the English edition of the Forward newspaper — was presented with the 2010 Emma…
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The Schmooze Madoff Play With Wiesel Scene Back On, Without Wiesel
Much flak was given last week to Theater J in Washington, D.C., when the company, at the behest of Elie Wiesel, canceled a play about the Bernard Madoff scandal. Wiesel was apparently upset about being depicted in a fictional jailhouse scene. But now, the play is back on — this time at a different locale…
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The Schmooze Three Men Arrested in Swastika Branding
This is just disturbing. According to the AP, three men in their 20s were charged with kidnapping and aggravated battery after they abducted a 22-year-old mentally challenged man and branded a swastika into his arm with a heated coat hanger. The article says the men, Jesse Sanford, William Hatch and Paul Beebe — all in…
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The Schmooze Man Arrested in Swastika Branding
This is just disturbing. According to the AP, three men in their 20s were charged with kidnapping and aggravated battery after they kidnapped a 22-year-old mentally challenged man and branded a swastika into his arm with a heated coathanger. The article says the men, Jesse Sanford, William Hatch and Paul Beebe — all in their…
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