Renee Ghert-Zand
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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The Schmooze Crowds Protest the Arrest of Rabbi Who Endorsed Controversial Book
It wasn’t rioting Palestinian protesters making headlines yesterday, but rather right-wing religious Jews opposing the arrest of Dov Lior, the chief rabbi of Kiryat Arba. Lior was detained by police and questioned in relation to his endorsement of the controversial book “Torat Hamelech” (The King’s Torah) by Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, which justifies the killing of…
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Life Forget Barbie; Dress Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Instead
Adding to the various portrayals of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas that are part of San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum’s current “Seeing Gertrude Stein” exhibit, reviewed recently in the Forward, are a set of paper dolls of the two women. The paper doll set was created by the museum in honor of the city’s…
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The Schmooze Israeli Celebs Take To Faux Prison Cell in Solidarity With Gilad Shalit
They decided that the best way to show their solidarity was by doing time in solitary. Beginning last Saturday evening at 8:00 PM and lasting for 24 hours, various high-profile Israelis took turns sitting in a dark, depressing mock prison cell reflecting the conditions in which Gilad Shalit is likely living in captivity. The cramped…
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The Schmooze That’s Chutzpah: Fan Scores Meeting with Sarah Silverman in Israel
These days, all you need is a little chutzpah and some social networking to make your dreams come true. At least, that is all American-Israeli Molly Livingstone needed to achieve her goal of meeting Sarah Silverman on the comedienne’s first trip to Israel. The 28-year-old Los Angeles native, who lives in Jerusalem and does improvisational…
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The Schmooze ‘Delta Gets You There’ (Unless You’re Jewish)
“Delta gets you there,” but not necessarily if you are Jewish. The airline’s slogan does not seem to completely apply now that it has entered a code-sharing partnership with Saudi Arabian Airlines, the national carrier of Saudi Arabia, set to begin in 2012. Soon after an article by Michele Chabin for Religion News Service titled,…
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Life Dr. Abuelaish’s ‘Daughters for Life’
“If I could know that my daughters were the last sacrifice on the road to peace between Palestinians and Israelis, then I would accept their loss,” wrote Izzeldin Abuelaish, the Gazan obstetrician-gynecologist specializing in infertility following the killing of three of his daughters and a niece by an IDF tank shell that hit his family’s…
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The Schmooze Jewish Skeletons Found in English Well: Were They Victims of Medieval Persecution?
The people of Norwich, England have found some skeletons — not in their closets, but in a well. And the bones belong to Jews. The remains of 17 bodies dating to the 12th or 13th centuries were found at the bottom of a well in 2004 during an excavation for the construction of a shopping…
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The Schmooze Young Jews Love To Volunteer, Though Not for Jewish Organizations
A just-released study on young Jews and volunteerism reveals that, although young Jews are committed to community service and volunteering, they tend not to associate that interest with their Jewish identities. This is the case despite the fact that commitment to volunteerism increases with a young Jew’s level of religious involvement. The study also found…
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