Lior Zaltzman was the Forward’s Digital Fellow. Follow her on twitter @liorca.
Lior ZaltzmanDigital Fellow
By Lior Zaltzman
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The Schmooze When a Starbucks Barista Really, Really Messes Up Your Jewish Name
Bet no one has gotten your name this wrong at a Starbucks. I admit, I’ve stopped using my actual name when buying coffee from the chain, because they have never, ever gotten it right. But this case we came across on the Starbucks Facebook page? It’s way crazier than a simple misheard name. Gitty and…
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Culture 8 Jewish Movies Premiering at Sundance
There’s a lot of amazing Jewish movies coming out of Sundance Festival this year. The popular film festival is in its 28th year, and is starting on Thursday, January 21st, in Park City, Utah. From documentaries about Jewish settlers to full feature dramas from the heart of New Zealand, here are eight great movies that…
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The Schmooze Kippah It Coming, Bernie!
Keep it frum and feel the Bern! The Bernie Sanders yarmulke, also know as the Bernika, is here, and it’s the hot socialist accessory for shul this Shabbat. You can get your very own from Berkley, CA’s “Afikomen Judaica” for a mere $21 dollars. The Bernie Kippah / yarmulke (yes that’s how it’s spelled) also…
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Music How This Ex-Orthodox Yeshiva Student Became a Star In the Arab Music World
Ziv Yehezkel is a man full of contradictions. He is at once a deeply religious Jewish man, but also a zealous lover of Arabic music. The soloist of Arab Orchestra of Nazareth, the 31 year-old was born in Kiryat Ono, a town in central of Israel, in an area called “Little Baghdad.” But Yehezkel did…
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The Schmooze Jake Gyllenhaal and Seth Rogen Take on Our Favorite ‘Clueless’ Jewish Princess
Seth Rogen, Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano and Bradley Cooper are taking on the Haitian crisis, 1995 style. W Magazine’s awesome “Casting Call” series is a role-reversal on-the-fly audition reel of classic movie characters, featuring Hollywood’s finest. In this installment, the actors were invited to take on Jewish princess Cher Horowitz’s iconic “Clueless” debate monologue, which…
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The Schmooze New ‘Wonder Woman’ Teaser Proves Gal Gadot is the Superhero of the Future
The first Wonder Woman movie teaser is out, and it is fabulous. The short teaser, which premiered on Kevin Smith’s show on the CW, is full of action shots of Gal Gadot as the heroine, and offers a glimpse into the origins of Wonder Woman’s “civilian” persona, Diana Prince: The movie, which is still in…
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The Schmooze Juicy New Anthony Weiner Documentary to Premier at Sundance
It’s hard to mention Anthony Weiner without inviting some sort of a punchline. Even if you disregard the very unfortunate name, it seems like, since 2011, he’s been caught in one sex scandal after another. So what happens if you get caught in the middle of all that drama, as documentary filmmaker? Filmmakers Josh Kriegman…
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The Schmooze Judd Apatow’s Crazy Little Thing Called ‘LOVE’ is Coming to Netflix
Another dysfunctional love story from Jewish entertainment mastermind Judd Apatow? Count us in! The “Girls” and “Freaks and Geeks” writer and director, has a new TV show coming up: “Love.” Its first trailer just premiered this weekend and it promises to be as fabulously fun and awkward as any Judd Apatow creation. The show stars…
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