Lauren F. Friedman
By Lauren F. Friedman
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The Schmooze Gaza Kids Attempt To Break World Record for Bouncing Balls
In a rare piece of lighthearted, apolitical news from the Gaza Strip, AP reported that more than 7,000 Palestinian children there spent five minutes on Thursday simultaneously dribbling basketballs in an attempt to enter the Guinness Book of World Records. The children, among 250,000 in the Gaza Strip who attend United Nations summer camps, were…
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Israel News Four Guys Walk Into a Bar
‘I am an Indian Jew,” standup comedian Samson Koletkar said at a recent show in Toronto. The audience erupted in laughter, and Koletkar feigned confusion. “That was not the joke,” he deadpanned. Koletkar, who was born and raised in Mumbai’s small Jewish community, will appear in San Francisco on July 26, along with Rajiv Satyal…
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The Schmooze Jessica Posner Wins Top Prize at VH1’s Do Something Awards
On Friday, 23-year-old Jessica Posner was in Kibera, Africa’s largest slum. Three days later she was in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Palladium, sitting amongst gliterrati like Snoop Dogg, chatting with host Jane Lynch and – ultimately – accepting a $100,000 Do Something Award on VH1 for her work in starting a school for girls and a…
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Israel News Yentes Hit The Internet
For a while, Geri Brin was just another Jewish mother, worrying that her 31-year-old son, Colby, would never find true love. “I can picture her on her deathbed… choking out the words, ‘Colby, did you call that girl?’ before fading into darkness,” Colby told the New York Post in a July 13 article. Brin set…
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The Schmooze Pay Now, Pray Later
Anyone who has ever tried to explain to a bewildered Christian friend why you need a ticket to go to shul on the holiest day of the year will appreciate Lisa Miller’s deliberately provocative essay, “The Cost of Being Jewish”. Miller, Newsweek’s religion editor, pointed out in the July 8 article that while there is…
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The Schmooze A Muslim Mayor and a Jewish Deputy Run Teaneck
In a set-up worthy of a Parks and Recreation-style sitcom, a Muslim and an Orthodox Jew are working side by side as mayor and deputy mayor in the suburban New York town of Teaneck, N.J. In his latest Our Towns column, Peter Appelbome of the New York Times reported that July 1 marked the start…
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The Schmooze LiLo’s New Israeli Girlfriend
Lindsay Lohan – erstwhile girlfriend of Jewish DJ-to-the-stars Samantha Ronson – has been spotted around town with a new sheyne meydl on her arm: former IDF soldier Eilat Anschel. TMZ reports that though the two met a while ago in LA, things have been heating up during the past month. It would seem, LiLo –…
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The Schmooze The New Spider Man’s a Jew
Spidey’s always had Jewish roots. (Its creator, Stan Lee, né Stanley Lieber,who makes cameos in all the films, is an American-Romanian Jew). But now Spider Man is getting a Jewish present. Andrew Garfield, a 26-year-old Jewish actor who was born in LA and raised in Surrey, England, has just been cast in the role of…
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