Renee Ghert-Zand
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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The Schmooze Video: Ehud Barak, Israeli Minister of Camera Angles?
Some Israelis are suggesting that Ehud Barak’s portfolio be changed from Minister of Defense to Minister of Camera Angles, after he was caught on camera giving stage directions to the commander of the IDF’s Southern Command as he briefed the press on the terrorist attacks earlier today near Eilat. As Major General Tal Russo was…
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The Schmooze Rabbi Seeks Young Wife (For His Health!)
Older man seeks a new, younger wife. The scenario sounds familiar, but this time it’s not for the usual reasons. Rabbi Craig Ezring of Boca Raton, who serves a number of nursing home and assisted living facilities in South Florida, announced on his blog that he was seeking a new, younger wife. Why? So that…
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The Schmooze Underground Speed Dating for Tu B’Av
There was romance in the air in — or, rather, below — Jerusalem earlier this week on Tu B’Av, often referred to as the Israeli Valentine’s Day. Youth for Jerusalem, an organization encouraging young, secular Israelis to stay in or move to Jerusalem, hosted a speed dating event last Sunday evening in Zedekiah’s Cave, an…
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The Schmooze A Widow’s Ongoing Quest To Expose BBC’s ‘Anti-Israel Bias’
Fiona Paveley is not letting her late husband Steven Sugar rest in peace, and she thinks that is exactly what he would have wanted her to do. In fact, she believes that he — and she — will ultimately rest easier if she does not give up the legal battle against the BBC that Sugar…
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The Schmooze Four-Year-Old Wasn’t Deported From Israel, After All
Late last night, a 4-year-old girl named Ofek and her mother, Nancy, were taken off a plane at Ben-Gurion airport just as it was getting ready to take off for the Philippines. The two were not tourists planning a vacation to the Far East, but rather a family set to be deported from Israel. An…
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The Schmooze Holocaust Survivors Sue Austria for $21 Billion
Claiming that a symbolic compensation agreement signed by the governments of the United States and Austria ten years ago is inadequate, a group of Austrian-born Israeli Holocaust survivors is suing Austria for $21 billion. That is the value of the property taken from Austrian Jews during the Nazi era, according to calculations by historians. The…
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The Schmooze Nonesuch Pulls Steve Reich’s Controversial ‘WTC 9/11’ Album Cover
“[It] looks like something swiped from Rudy Giuliani’s presidential campaign press shop circa January 2008,” Seth Colter Walls wrote in a July 21 piece for Slate about the cover for Minimalist composer Steve Reich’s “WTC 9/11.” Walls had no problem with “WTC 9/11” itself; he called Reich’s composition for three string quartets combined with recorded…
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The Schmooze Christian Palestinians Moving Back to Holy Land
There’s no place like home when it comes to the Holy Land. These are the sentiments of millions of Jews, but also of the many Christian Palestinians now choosing to return there after having lived abroad. American-Israeli freelance journalist Michele Chabin reports in the National Catholic Register that recent statistics show that for the first…
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