Renee Ghert-Zand
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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The Schmooze Israel’s Most Fabulous Drag Queen Gets a New Gig
If you happen to be deep into Israeli gay club culture, then you probably know all about Uriel Yekutiel. If you aren’t, then prepare to meet the most fabulous drag queen in Israel today. The host of an Israeli TV show recently presented a story on the 22-year-old Yekutiel by saying he was a cross…
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The Schmooze ‘Magic’ T-Shirts Beg Neo-Nazis To Change Ways
Even following the usual instructions to wash t-shirts inside out to preserve their logos would not have made a difference in this case. Two-hundred-and-fifty attendees at a recent Neo-Nazi-sponsored “Rock for Germany” concert in Gera, Germany unwittingly ended up with souvenir t-shirts designed so that their logos would come off in the shirts’ first washings….
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The Schmooze See Larry King and Edward Zwick in JPEF’s Promo
Well, it’s not quite in the same vein or of the same tone as Judd Apatow’s public service announcement for the American Jewish World Service, but it does feature a few celebrities. The Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation’s brand new PSA has Liev Schreiber, Larry King and Edward Zwick — along with a former partisan and…
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The Schmooze Vote for the Dead Sea
Can the Dead Sea hold on? We’re not talking ecologically — though that is of prime concern to scientists and conservationists studying how and why the sea has been shrinking in size. The Shmooze, on the other hand, is worried about whether the Dead Sea can make it to at least 7th place among the…
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The Schmooze Female IDF Soldiers Suffer More Stress Fractures
A study of women soldiers in Israel has found that for the IDF to attract more women to combat roles, it is going to have to make changes to more than just the design of military gear. The IDF thought that it had eliminated the problem of women soldiers getting stress fractures by designing a…
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The Schmooze Mengele’s Diaries May Be Loaned To Yad Vashem
Though the recent purchaser of the diaries of the notorious Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele wishes to remain anonymous, he also wants Dr. Mengele’s artifacts to be available for all to see. Haaretz reports that the purchaser, a modern-Orthodox physician from the U.S. Midwest who bought the diaries and related materials at auction for $245,000, told…
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The Schmooze Ed Koch Pens Weight Loss Book for Kids
Former New York Mayor Ed Koch may have once said, “The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth — something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food — just watch it, don’t eat it.” That’s a fitting quote for Koch the mayor, but it’s not exactly the message Koch the…
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The Schmooze Jews Criticized for Handing Out Challah to Tottenham Rioters
While most of the ultra-Orthodox residents of the North and South London neighborhoods affected by the recent rioting in the city have heeded rabbinic directives to stay indoors and out of harm’s way, some young Hasidic men did not last Saturday night. And what they were doing has given rise to some nasty finger pointing…
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