Renee Ghert-Zand
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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The Schmooze Getting Rid of Journalists in Haaretz’s Third ‘Writers Edition’
Author Etgar Keret with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Photo by Tal Cohen. It’s become a tradition since 2009 that in honor of Israel’s Hebrew Book Week, Haaretz publishes its “Writers Edition.” For this unique edition, all the paper’s reporters disappear and are replaced by well-known Israeli, Middle Eastern, Jewish and Jew-ish authors and poets….
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The Schmooze In East Jerusalem, the Battle Over Street Names Continues
WAFA, the Palestinian News and Information Agency, is reporting that crews from the Jerusalem municipality started working early this morning to remove existing street signs in East Jerusalem and replace them with new ones. The new signs will change the names of streets and locations from their Arab names to Jewish ones. According to WAFA’s…
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Life The Jewish Opposition to Circumcision
To cut, or not to cut, that is the question. At least, that seems to be the dilemma du jour as residents of San Francisco gear up to vote this fall on a proposal to legally ban circumcision of males under the age of 18. Leaders in the Jewish and Muslim communities, along with others…
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The Schmooze Pro-Israel Screenwriter Founds ‘Mike Leigh Scholarship for Political and Moral Courage’
While visiting the Ma’aleh School of Television, Film and the Arts in Jerusalem this week to co-teach a workshop with fellow Hollywood screenwriter David N. Weiss, Dan Gordon used the opportunity to take his public critique of British filmmaker Mike Leigh one step further. Gordon followed up on a promise he made Leigh in an…
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The Schmooze Facebook Revolutions: The Great Israeli Cottage Cheese Boycott?
While the Arabs are organizing historic political uprisings on Facebook, Israelis are using the social networking website to protest the high price of cottage cheese. Fed up with the nearly NIS 8 price for a 250 g container of the popular dairy food (it accounts for 28% of all cheese sales in Israel), consumer groups…
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The Schmooze Q&A: Joey Weisenberg and the Hazan of the Future
Joey Weisenberg, 29, is the musical director at the Kane Street Synagogue in Brooklyn and is in charge of musical education at Yeshivat Hadar in Manhattan. He plays guitar, mandolin and percussion and sings in 10 different bands, is an artist-fellow at the 14th Street Y’s LABA program and a faculty member at KlezKanada. He…
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The Schmooze David Mamet: ‘Crazy About’ Sarah Palin?
That celebrated playwright David Mamet has taken a hard turn to the right is old news by now. He has written about it in his newly published book, “The Secret Knowledge: On The Dismantling of American Culture” (Sentinel, 2011), and has been shouting it from the mountaintops in all the related press coverage. Mamet sums…
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Life Shoshannah Stern Takes a Silent Stand Against Sexual Violence
The deaf Jewish actress Shoshannah Stern is more than a little bit angry — and for good reason. Stern appears in a new video, “Why is Shoshannah Stern Pissed Off?” It is part of the Lavender Revolution, a social media movement to end violence against deaf women. Deaf Hope, the Oakland, Calif.-based non-profit behind the…
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