Michael Kaminer
By Michael Kaminer
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The Schmooze No ‘Solitary Man’: Neil Diamond Ties the Knot
She’s no “Sweet Caroline,” but 42-year-old Katie McNeil has become the third Mrs. Neil Diamond after a weekend wedding in Los Angeles, Reuters reports. She’s also Diamond’s manager. Diamond, 71, confirmed the marriage in a tweet yesterday: “Katie and I got married last night, we wish you all could’ve been there. It was magical!” He…
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The Schmooze Ricky Gervais Stands By His Anne Frank Joke
L’affaire Gervais continues to snowball. And despite an open letter from comedian Ricky Gervais in London’s Jewish Chronicle this weekend, the controversy over his Holocaust jokes keeps intensifying. Some backstory: As the Forward reported last week, Gervais went off about the Holocaust and Anne Frank on an early-April episode of the Jon Stewart Show. Among…
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The Schmooze Apatow and Stern Still Friends After Twitter Feud
If you’ve lost sleep over the “feud” between Howard Stern and Judd Apatow, rest easy. The Jewish comedy behemoths have buried the hatchet after a vicious Twitter smackdown supposedly sparked by Apatow’s criticism of Stern’s “America’s Got Talent” gig. Last Tuesday, Apatow tweeted, “I hate to say it but I don’t have much interest in…
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The Schmooze Aung San Suu Kyi Wins Elie Wiesel Award
Political unrest at home will keep her from attending in person. But Aung San Suu Kyi, the iconic political activist who endured years of persecution before winning a seat in Burma’s parliament this year, will be honored with The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Elie Wiesel Award at a glittering ceremony at National Harbor in…
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Books Six Words Is All it Takes
“Circumcision has been least challenging part.” “God chose. Said no. Now what? “Sunday night? Yes, lobster is kosher.” Millions of words, over thousands of years, have been written about the nature of the Jewish soul. But the most precise distillation of our people’s essence may have finally arrived in fewer characters than a tweet. “Six…
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The Schmooze Dior (Finally) Names Galliano Successor
While John Galliano’s outsize personality helped revive the moribund Christian Dior brand, it also sparked his self-destruction — and firing — after a notorious anti-Semitic rant last year. Today, the conglomerate that owns Dior finally named a successor for a designer many considered irreplaceable. And the brand’s new creative director is reputed to be as…
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The Schmooze Ex-Hasidim To Tell All on Reality TV
Call it “Jersey Sheitel”. Three former Ultra-Orthodox Jews will star in a reality show about their post-religious lives, according to the New York Post. The subjects of “shunned” will include an aspiring model/actress named Pearlperry Reich — currently embroiled in a divorce and custody battle for her four kids — who told the Post her…
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The Schmooze Q&A: Jesse Aaron Cohen on Tanlines and Yiddish
By day, as photo and film archivist at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Jesse Aaron Cohen tends to thousands of images of bygone Jewish culture. By night, he’s half of the Brooklyn-based “existential pop” duo Tanlines, whose new album, “Mixed Emotions,” will sound “absolutely stupendous when you’re driving during the daytime with your windows…
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