Michael Kaminer
By Michael Kaminer
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The Schmooze Jerusalem’s Top Johns: Which Toilets Make Cut?
Call it Porcelain Tourism. Online news service Israel21c has released its pick of Jerusalem’s best public toilets. Israel21c culled its list of recommended WCs from a Hebrew-only list of 40 public restrooms on the city of Jerusalem’s municipal website. “The Old City alone has 13 public johns spread across the Jewish and Muslim quarters,” Israel21C…
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The Schmooze Toronto Arts Center Gets Downtown Home
While it’s long maintained headquarters in Toronto’s heavily Jewish northern reaches, the Koffler Centre of the Arts has never had a permanent home downtown, where much of its edgy programming originates. As a result, the Koffler made a virtue of necessity, building a brand around acclaimed off-site exhibitions that showcased its content at urban venues…
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The Schmooze Bar Refaeli To Launch Lingerie Company
Israeli model Bar Refaeli is going into the underwear business. Jewish celeb-gossip site 6DegreesNoBacon reports that Refaeli will launch online lingerie retailer Undeez.com with fellow Israeli mannequin Dudi Balsar. Undeez has raised $1 million from Israeli angel investors, according to Israeli financial newspaper Globes. “Undeez will apply a sophisticated e-commerce model, which was developed over…
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The Schmooze Looted Painting Returned to Jewish Heirs
What happened in this German casino will not be staying in this German casino. A gambling establishment in a German spa town will return a Dutch Old Master painting to the heirs of a Jewish art dealer persecuted by the Nazis and forced to flee Germany, Bloomberg reports. “The Masters of the Goldsmith Guild in…
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Food New H & H? Old Spot May Host New Bagel Shop
Upper West Siders practically sat shiva when the beleaguered H & H Bagels shuttered its iconic West 80th Street store in July. But round baked goods may rise again in those cold, dormant ovens. DNAInfo reported today that Queens-based Davidovich Bakery, which bills itself as “the only manufacturer in the world that makes hand-rolled kettle-boiled…
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The Schmooze Gay Rights Pioneer Franklin Kameny Dies
Franklin Kameny, the pioneering gay rights leader whose Jewish identity inspired some of his historic activism, has died at age 86, the Washington Post reports. As the Forward wrote last year in an 85th-birthday profile, Kameny “became a vocal activist at a time when other downtrodden and discriminated-against gay people scarcely dared to show their…
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Food Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Makes New York Debut
Starbucks may have famously flopped in Israel back in 2003. But with 14 stores and counting, LA-based chain Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf has managed to gain a healthy foothold among Holy Land locals and American expats — partly because, as local-info site GoJerusalem.com has noted, the stores are all kosher. Now, with a similar…
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The Schmooze Midrash Manicures: The Torah at Your Fingertips
Last week, The Shmooze reported on SpaMitzvah, a bodycare company whose new apples-and-honey based beauty products pay “homage to Rosh Hashanah.” Now, a Westchester County, N,Y., rabbi is adding her own gloss on the notion of Jewish glamor. Rabbi Yael Buechler has an unusual hobby: She paints her nails to correspond with a Torah portion,…
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