Michael Kaminer
By Michael Kaminer
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The Schmooze Chatting with Israeli Diplomat Elad Strohmayer
Elad Strohmayer, 31, is a relatively new face in Israeli diplomacy. He took the reins as second-in-command at the Consulate General of Israel in Philadelphia last summer. With a background in humanitarian law, Strohmayer is now completing a master’s degree in international relations while juggling day-to-day duties in political affairs, outreach, press, academia, culture, government…
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The Schmooze Hooking Up, Israeli Style
Be sincere. Stay fit. And don’t be afraid to nudge. That’s the advice from Tel Aviv-born party promoter Eliad Cohen on “How to Hook Up With a Sexy Israeli” in this week’s issue of Next, a New York gay weekly. Cohen’s “Tel-Aviv and Madrid-inspired” party, Papa, makes its stateside debut this Sunday. To mark the…
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The Schmooze Historic Photo Archive Finds Home in Toronto
The Black Star Collection’s journey to Toronto hasn’t quite been as dramatic as the flight of its Jewish creator, Ernest Mayer, from the Nazis. But its recent landing at Ryerson University — which acquired nearly 300,000 Black Star images with the help of an anonymous donor — caps a colorful history. Ryerson will unveil the…
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The Schmooze Joy Tomchin on Producing Movies and AIDS
Real estate investor Joy Tomchin never imagined her name on a movie marquee. But a phone call from a stranger changed that. David France, a journalist and author, had found Tomchin through mutual friends; would she consider producing his film? “I said, ‘Who is this guy? He’s just asking for money,’” she told the Forward….
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The Schmooze Bieber’s Jewish Backer
When the Justin Bieber documentary “Never Say Never” hit last year, the Forward chatted with the superstar’s manager and “father figure,” Scooter Braun, about his own background — Holocaust-survivor grandparents, rough childhood in Greenwich, Conn., Hebrew name. Braun focuses a bit less on his Semitic side in a recent New Yorker article, which offers an…
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The Schmooze Toni Braxton’s Jewish Grandma
Could Braxton Family Values include observing Shabbos? R & B hitmaker Toni Braxton, whose family stars in its eponymous WEtv series, has revealed she has Jewish roots. In an interview with The New York Times, the Grammy winner said she’s “still surprised by the revelation that her grandmother was Jewish.” “I didn’t understand it as…
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The Schmooze Cursing the GOP in Yiddish
May your son the doctor introduce you to his fiancée, Bristol Palin. May your child give his bar mitzvah speech on the genius of Ayn Rand. May your insurance company decide constipation is a pre-existing condition. It’s not clear who’s behind these Yiddish Curses for Republican Jews. But in just three days, the online phenomenon…
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The Schmooze Israeli Startup Launches Facebook Death Contest
Israelis are nothing if not practical. So maybe it’s no surprise that an Israeli startup’s behind a new app that sends private messages to one’s dearly beloved after death — or that the Facebook app’s creators are offering a chance at worldwide fame to the (un)lucky participant who dies first. According to social media digest…
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