Nathan Burstein
By Nathan Burstein
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The Schmooze Roseanne Barr: Israel’s Next Prime Minister?
Forget the usual slate of Israeli politicians – the country’s next prime minister could be Roseanne Barr. So says the comedian, who announced her unlikely candidacy on yesterday’s “Tonight Show.” After announcing that she would also seek the American presidency, the former “Roseanne” star added the Israeli premiership as a “two-fer.” “I’ve got to solve…
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The Schmooze Lauren Ambrose Named the Next ‘Funny Girl’
The role that launched Barbra Streisand has been recast — and it didn’t go to the Jewish heir apparent. The next Broadway production of “Funny Girl” will star Lauren Ambrose as Fanny Brice, the real-life Jewish comedian whom Streisand played during the show’s original 1964 Broadway run. The role, which earned Streisand a Tony nomination…
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The Schmooze Rick Sanchez To Launch Talk Show
Former news anchor Rick Sanchez, who was fired by CNN last fall after implying that Jews control the media, has completed the next step of his professional comeback. The ex-cable host is developing a syndicated talk show that will shoot in Florida, TVNewser reports. The program will be shot in both English and Spanish, and…
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The Schmooze American Jews Not Prejudiced Against Muslims, New Poll Finds
For all the distrust that supposedly separates them, American Jews feel a lot of solidarity with their Muslim counterparts. That’s the stereotype-defying implication of a new poll by the Abu Dhabi Gallup Center, which shows that American Jews express more understanding for American Muslims than any other U.S. religious group. Eighty percent of American Jews…
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Life Sister of Druze Miss Israel Contestant is Murdered
The most famous Miss Israel contestant not to win the national pageant has returned to the headlines in Israel. Duah Fares, a Druze Israeli who made waves before withdrawing from the 2007 Miss Israel pageant, is back in the news after the murder of her younger sister, Maya. Jamila Fares, a 21-year-old who went by…
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The Schmooze Important-to-Know Nose News
You’d think a Jewish scientist would avoid making racial generalizations about noses, but that hasn’t stopped an Israeli professor from doing just that. Abraham Tamir, a chemical engineering professor at Ben-Gurion University, has published the results of his study of nearly 1,800 noses, based on both photos of living people and works of art. (Although…
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The Schmooze Lars von Trier’s ‘Melancholia’ Headed for Toronto Film Festival
Good news for crazy Danish director Lars von Trier, who definitely doesn’t admire Hitler: his latest film, “Melancholia,” will celebrate its North American premiere in September at the Toronto International Film Festival. The Toronto screening will offer something of a fresh start for “Melancholia,” which temporarily stole the show at the Cannes Film Festival in…
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The Schmooze Larry David on How to Solve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Courtesy of HBO The more Larry David pushes the envelope, the more his fans love him — and the more fans he seems to attract. That could help to explain the ratings bump for the July 24 installment of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” in which David mines the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for laughs. The episode, the highest-rated…
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