Michael Kaminer
By Michael Kaminer
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The Schmooze ‘Jewish Husbands Don’t Kill Their Wives’
“Jewish husbands don’t kill their wives. They buy them jewelry.” That’s one way Houston socialite Yvonne Stern is defending her betrothed, a Maserati-driving personal-injury attorney named Jeffrey Stern — the man accused of hiring paid assassins to get rid of her. To the shock of her friends, neighbors and Houstonians who’ve been following the case,…
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The Schmooze Jewish Paper Stands Up to Anti-Gay Bullies
The Jewish Press, a Brooklyn-based weekly tabloid with a strong religious focus, is standing its ground after its advertisers were “threatened” by unnamed groups who objected to a recent op-ed by a gay ex-Hasid. That story, by a young man named Chaim Levin, revealed “bullying, silencing, and torment for being gay in the frum community”,…
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The Schmooze New Online Jewish Heritage ‘Clearinghouse’
Much of the continent may have united, but Jewish heritage initiatives in Europe have remained far-flung — until now. The just-launched Jewish Heritage Europe website will aim “to serve as an online clearinghouse for all news, information and contacts about Jewish heritage from as far east as Turkey and Russia to the UK and Portugal,”…
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Culture Uniting Gay and Straight at School
When ninth-grader Shulamit Izen fought to establish a group uniting gay and straight students at her Boston-area Jewish high school in 2001, the effort seemed remarkable enough to inspire a film. “Hineini,” the 2005 documentary chronicling the young lesbian’s struggle, became a touchstone for a nascent movement encouraging openness and support for teenagers grappling with…
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The Schmooze Turkey to Air Subtitled ‘Shoah’
Last week, the Forward reported that Turkey had selected a young Jewish pop singer as its representative to 2012’s Eurovision music competition — an oblique gesture of musical détente at a time of frosty relations between Israel and Turkey. Now, in a very different kind of cultural milestone, Turkish state television network TRT has announced…
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The Schmooze H & H Bagel Saga Continues
It’s been through multiple bankruptcies. Its New Jersey manufacturing plant is history. Its iconic Upper West Side store is but a memory. And it now faces the loss of its only remaining space — a West 46th Street plant and shop. But H & H Bagel — once New York’s dominant producer of Jewishy baked…
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The Schmooze Jewish Billionaire Owns Sunken Cruise Ship
An old joke used to blame the Titanic disaster on the Jews because of the “Iceberg.” But in the case of this week’s sinking of the Costa Concordia cruise ship, there actually is a Jewish connection. According to JTA, Jewish billionaire Micky Arison is the owner of the capsized luxury liner. The Israeli-American businessman is…
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The Schmooze Jewish Singer to Represent Turkey at Eurovision
Turkey’s emissary to this year’s Eurovision Song Contest — the annual multinational music competition showcasing 43 countries and wide-ranging talent levels — is a 24-year-old pop singer from the western metropolis of Izmir named Can Bonomo. Fan site EuroVisionary describes the singer-songwriter’s style as “Istanbulian music that works with tunes from Alaturca to international indie…
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