Renee Ghert-Zand
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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The Schmooze And the Nominees Are…
We all know that the Oscars race has been going on for some time now, but with today’s announcement of the 2013 Academy Awards nominees, we can consider the contest official. Two Israeli films are among the final five nominees for Best Documentary. The first, “5 Broken Cameras,” by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi, documents…
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The Schmooze Bette is Back on Broadway
Bette Midler will be back on Broadway after a 30-year hiatus. She will star in a one-woman show based on the life of the late Hollywood agent Sue Mengers. Skinny girl mogul Bethenny Frankel is seeking child support, primary physical custody of her 2-year-old daughter, and a whole lot more in her divorce from Jason…
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Opinion Jack Lew’s Really Bad John Hancock
Does Jack Lew need to tighten up his penmanship if he’s going to be treasury secretary? The Orthodox Jew whose signature is going to be on every single dollar bill in the land has a pretty weird — actually, an incredibly, startingly weird — signature. And it seems to be the main thing the world…
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The Schmooze ‘Blue Bloods’ Hasidic Costumes Fool Boro Park
It was a little tricky telling who was a real Hasidic Jew and who wasn’t on 13th Avenue in Boro Park earlier this week. The CBS police drama “Blue Bloods,” starring Donnie Wahlberg, was filming there, and the extras dressed as Hasidim were throwing the real members of the tribe for a loop. If you…
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The Schmooze Gabby Giffords Speaks on Shooting Anniversary
Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has agreed to an interview with Diane Sawyer, which will air on ABC on January 8, the second anniversary of the Tucson shooting that left Giffords severely injured. Drake decided to honor his grandmother, Evelyn Sher, who passed away over Thanksgiving, by having a huge picture of her tattooed on to…
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The Schmooze Playing Both Sides of the Green Line
Dora-winning actress Natasha Greenblatt went on a Birthright Israel trip in early 2009, just following Operation Cast Lead, and stayed on for a couple of months to volunteer in Nablus, in the northern West Bank. While there, the Torontonian heard about an Israeli-Palestinian woman who had brought a group of Palestinian children across the Green…
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The Schmooze Bar Refaeli To Steam-Up Super Bowl Ad
SodaStream won’t be the only Israeli export fizzing things up at the Super Bowl come February 3. None other than supermodel Bar Refaeli, the hottest woman alive in 2012 according to Maxim, will join Danica Patrick in one of those racy Go Daddy ads we’ve all come to expect during the biggest broadcast of the…
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The Schmooze J.J. Abrams’s Star Trek Screening
Director J.J. Abrams arranged for a special preview screening of his unfinished “Star Trek Into Darkness” for a 41-year-old man dying of cancer. Maroon 5 front man Adam Levine will be on SNL January 26 — this time as the host, and not the musical guest. Is Jake Gyllenhaal dating Katie Holmes? Some people seem…
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