Nathan Burstein
By Nathan Burstein
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The Schmooze Hebrew Ink: Justin Bieber’s New ‘Yeshua’ Tattoo
A month after his first visit to Israel, Justin Bieber has gotten a Hebrew tattoo. The 17-year-old pop star showed off the new ink during a visit to Hawaii with his girlfriend this week. (Because that’s what normal 17-year-olds do: get tattoos and go to Hawaii with their girlfriends.) The letters spell out “Yeshua,” or…
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The Schmooze Rocker Gene Simmons Not a Fan of Obama’s Israel Policy
It appears that President Obama can cross “Rock and Roll All Night” off his list of potential 2012 campaign songs. The president’s recent speeches on Israel have made a critic of KISS rocker Gene Simmons, who implied on CNBC that Obama has “no [expletive] idea” about how to solve the Arab-Israeli impasse. “If you’ve never…
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The Schmooze Israeli Rabbis Get a Raise
Being a young rabbi in Israel just got a whole lot more lucrative. Starting salaries for Jewish clergy will rise by up to 250 percent in the coming years, according to a new set of raises approved today by Israel’s treasury. Because the salaries will be paid by the government — Israel doesn’t separate synagogue…
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The Schmooze Coming Soon: Israeli ‘Golden Girls’
Southern Florida is so famously full of Jewish retirees that it often seemed strange that there weren’t any among the main characters on TV’s “The Golden Girls.” But you can bet there will be at least a couple of Jewish retirees on the new Israeli version of the show, which is apparently so promising that…
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The Schmooze Russian Jews (Finally) Get Their Own Museum
They’ve largely disappeared as residents, but Russia’s Jews now have their own museum. Billed as the first Jewish museum in the country, the Moscow center opened recently following several years of planning. Exhibits are divided between two general themes, focusing on either Jewish practice or on Jewish history in Russia. Radio Free Europe reports that…
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The Schmooze ‘Persona Non Grata’: Von Trier Booted From Cannes for Anti-Semitic Comments
Here’s how it seems to work at the Cannes Film Festival: organizers are happy to show your film even if you’re famously anti-Semitic — please just don’t make any weird comments on the premises. That’s one way to interpret the events of the last few days, particularly after today’s announcement that Lars von Trier, the…
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The Schmooze Director Lars Von Trier Apologizes, Says He’s Not a Nazi
After causing a stir at the Cannes Film Festival this morning, Danish director Lars von Trier has issued an apology, clarifying that he is a weirdo — but not a Hitler-admiring weirdo. The festival’s organizers also issued a press release, saying they were disturbed von Trier’s remarks — apparently poorly delivered jokes — that “I…
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The Schmooze A-Rod Facilitates Unlikely Abe Foxman-Rick Sanchez Reunion
Advice for Mel Gibson and John Galliano: If you’re an accused anti-Semite trying to rescue your career, Alex Rodriguez, aka A-Rod, is apparently the man to see. The Yankees third baseman, of all people, was behind last week’s oddball reunion between Anti-Defamation League leader Abe Foxman and Rick Sanchez, the CNN anchor fired last year…
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