Michael Kaminer
By Michael Kaminer
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The Schmooze From Drabby Yeshiva Uniforms To Savvy Business Suits: An Interview With Designers of Ovadia & Sons
Twin peacocks leaning over an “O & S” monogram form the logo of newly launched men’s clothing line Ovadia & Sons. The birds also make apt stand-ins for Ariel and Shimon Ovadia, the 27-year-old, yeshiva-educated twins who founded the label in July. Riding a wave of fawning press from heavy-hitters like Esquire and GQ magazines,…
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The Schmooze Mad’s Al Jaffee’s Little-Known Ties to Chabad
One of the more shocking revelations in Mad magazine artist Al Jaffee’s biography – reviewed in the Forward last week — is the secret identities of several contributors to The Moshiach Times, a 25-year-old kids’ magazine published by Chabad. According to a post on the New York Times’ City Room blog, Jaffee himself drew the…
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The Schmooze Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters Rebuffs ADL’s Anti-Semitism Accusations
Like the song on Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” says, “the show must go on.” That’s the word from ex-Pink Floyd honcho Roger Waters, who has forcefully rebuffed accusations his new solo stage show includes anti-Semitic imagery. As the Shmooze reported this week, the Anti-Defamation League lashed out at Waters for an animated stage sequence where…
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The Schmooze Biblical Clue in Computer Worm?
It sounds like a high-tech thriller with DaVinci Code undertones: A file name inside a lethal computer worm might reference the Biblical Queen Esther — and could finger Israel as the source. A report in today’s New York Times says a file inside the Stuxnet worm’s computer code was named “Myrtus,” possibly a “cross-linguistic wordplay”…
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The Schmooze Legendary Actor Tony Curtis Dies at 85
Bernie Schwartz from the Bronx is gone. He was 85. The son of Hungarian Jews — better known as Tony Curtis — died of cardiac arrest at his Las Vegas-area home, the AP reported today. The star earned an Oscar nomination for “The Defiant Ones” (1958) and won over audiences with his charming and handsome…
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The Schmooze Brooklyn Rabbi’s Son Dies in Sukkot Fire
The 8-year-old son of a Brooklyn rabbi died in a Midwood house fire last night as his family celebrated the end of Sukkot and Simchat Torah’s start outside. Avigdor Krasny was the only one of six children who didn’t escape the blaze, according to an Associated Press report. His siblings were saved by their father,…
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The Schmooze Hitler Paintings Could Pull in Big Money at Auction
The historical significance of paintings by Adolf Hitler is obvious. And a new cache of watercolors by der führer — discovered by an Austrian lawyer on an estate he recently bought — is expected to fetch nearly a quarter of a million dollars at an auction on September 30. What’s more interesting about the tableaux,…
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Life Jewish Women and the Art of Over-sharing
Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women, an exhibit opening October 1 at San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum, almost ended before it began. About two years ago, as I was walking through the Museum of Cartoon and Comic Art’s annual expo at the Puck Building, I noticed a lot of tables where young women artists…
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