Renee Ghert-Zand
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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The Schmooze Academy Award Highlights
It wasn’t a big night for the Jews at this year’s Academy Awards. The two Israeli documentaries, “5 Broken Cameras” and “The Gatekeepers” were shut out. The best director award didn’t go to Steven Spielberg for “Lincoln” (though the film did get the award for best production design), or to Benh Zeitlin for “Beasts of…
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Life Moms Demand Gun Control Legislation
Before December 14, 2012, Sara Smith Smirin, who lives in California’s Silicon Valley, had no plans to fly the next month to Washington, D.C. However, the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School that day induced her to make the trip to the nation’s capital on January 24 to witness Senator Dianne Feinstein of California…
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Food Kosher Meat at the Click of a Button
My late grandparents lived in a small city on the Canadian prairie when I was little. With no butcher anywhere close by, my grandfather took it upon himself to purchase kosher meat for the entire community. He would have the meat the meat flown in from Montreal, which was thousands of miles away. And, when…
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The Schmooze Purim’s Greatest Videos
Here we are just a couple of days before the Megillah reading, and we’re not joking when we say it’s slim pickings when it comes to good new Purim videos. Some of the best Hanukkah videos last December were posted right under the wire before the first candle was lit, so let’s hope this could…
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The Schmooze Jews Scoop Up Juno Nominations
The nominees for the 2013 Juno Awards have been announced, and among them are Jewish musicians Drake, Leonard Cohen, Adam Cohen and Toronto group Jaffa Road, which was nominated for Best World Music Album for “Where The Light Gets In.” The Juno Awards, the Canadian equivalent of the Grammys, will be given out on April…
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The Schmooze ‘Glengarry Glen Ross,’ Now With Estrogen
If one were to think back to “Glengarry Glen Ross,” the 1992 film with an all-male cast based on the award-winning 1984 David Mamet play about desperate real estate salesmen, what words would come to mind? Probably ones like “profanity” and “testosterone” — never “femininity” or “estrogen.” But what is it they say? Never say…
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Life Smuggling Tallitot for Women at Western Wall
Recently, Amichai Lau-Lavie, founding director of Storahtelling and a second-year Jewish Theological Seminary rabbinical student, published a blog post about illegally smuggling tallitot (prayer shawls) into the Western Wall for use by Women of the Wall on February 11, Rosh Hodesh Adar. “I broke the law by smuggling prayer shawls into the site of the…
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The Schmooze Clive Davis Comes Out in New Memoir
Twice-married music executive Clive Davis has come out as bisexual in his new memoir titled, “The Soundtrack of My Life.” He also revealed that has been in a monogamous relationship with a man for the past seven years. Change is good, right? Well, at least a couple of big-name celebs think so. Gwyneth Paltrow is…
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