Michael Kaminer
By Michael Kaminer
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The Schmooze Godard To Skip Honorary Oscar Ceremony
Did a Forward story influence Jean-Luc Godard’s decision to cancel a trip to accept an honorary Oscar? After the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced it would bestow a lifetime achievement award on the idiosyncratic French-born, Swiss-based filmmaker, the Forward’s Benjamin Ivry laid out Godard’s history of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel statements in “Are…
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The Schmooze ‘Fiddler’ Writer Joseph Stein Dies
It’s hard not to hum “Sunrise, Sunset” (swiftly flow the years…) when reporting the death of Joseph Stein, the playwright who wrote the Semitic-kitsch musical classic “Fiddler on the Roof.” According to the BBC, Stein died at a New York hospital from complications after a fall; the writer had been in care suffering from prostate…
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The Schmooze Rudolf Hess Painting To Be Auctioned Off
This is turning out to be a banner season for emerging German artists. First, as the Forward reported, a British auction house put recently discovered paintings by Adolf Hitler up for sale. Now comes word that a canvas by Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s deputy leader in the Nazi party, will go under the hammer at a…
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News Kvetch and Kvell
Kvetch: • The Berenstain Bears Get Biblical • Paladino’s Apology Sticks in Rabbi Levin’s Throat • Protesters of Extreme Gender Segregation Report Personal Threats Kvell: • U.S. Businessmen May Launch Israeli Baseball League • Thoroughly Modern Mikveh? • The Fruit of ‘Franzenfreude’
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The Schmooze U.S. Businessmen May Launch Israeli Baseball League
The Israel Baseball League’s web site boasts a full slate of games, fun tidbits about players, and even a tongue-in-cheek take on “Baseball in the Time of Our Forefathers.” And “as one would expect, the majority of this season’s players will be of Jewish extraction,” the site trumpets. Trouble is, the league went bust in…
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The Schmooze The Berenstain Bears Get Biblical
We’d always assumed the Berenstain Bears — the cuddly, anthropomorphic ursine stars of bestselling kids books — were sort of Jewish. Maybe it was the name, given by series creators Stan and Jan Berenstain, whose kids now keep the franchise going. There’s even been serious investigation of the Semitic-bear issue on web sites like Jew…
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The Schmooze Scotland Honors Nazi-Fighting Polish Bear
It’s kind of astonishing that the World War II-era exploits of Private Wojtek haven’t earned greater glory. He served in the Polish army in the fight against the Axis. He voluntarily braved Nazi fire to help soldiers unload artillery shells. And the good-natured Wojtek provided “much-needed entertainment and distraction during brutal desert warfare,” according to…
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The Schmooze Jewish Principals of Brooklyn Health Care Company Under Fire
A stinging indictment of a Brooklyn-based home-health-care company in this week’s Village Voice shines a spotlight on its Jewish principal — and the two “wily operatives out of Williamsburg’s Orthodox Jewish community” who have apparently abetted his “routine looting of public resources.” The “misnamed” Excellent Home Care Services “has been happily pillaging state coffers for…
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