Renee Ghert-Zand
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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Food Kosher for Passover? There’s an App for That
We are fortunate that while Passover commemorates events of a very ancient era, we live in extremely modern times. As we rush around shopping and cooking for the holiday this year, we don’t even need to turn on our laptops, let alone crack open a book in search of guidance and resources — thanks to…
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The Schmooze Get Your Obamulkes and yarMITTkahs for Passover
For the sake of unity and sanity, many families ban talk of contemporary domestic politics from the Seder table. But diehard political supporters of presidential candidates have a way of getting their positions across without saying a single word. As Matthew Walters tell us, you can wear your politics on your sleeve — or your…
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The Schmooze SoHo Synagogue Founders Voted Most Stylish
A young rabbi and rebbetzin are holding their own among some heavy-hitting company. Are they being compared to great Torah scholars? Historical rabbis and their wives? No — it’s a bunch of fashion designers, artists, art dealers, musicians, writers and hoteliers whose company they share. StyleCaster has deemed Dovi and Esty Scheiner, co-founders in 2005…
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The Schmooze Friday Film: Captain of a Sinking Country
Watching the documentary “The Island President” is like watching a political thriller — only its story is not fictional and the cast is not made up of movie stars. Most important, the stakes are very real. In fact, they are so high that the existence of an entire country hangs in the balance. The underdog…
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Food Murray Lender of Lender’s Bagels Dies
Murray Lender, unfortunately, did not live long enough to read in the upcoming May issue of Consumer Reports that it gave his frozen bagels high marks (while daring to question the supremacy of the New York bagel, no less). Lender, 81, died in a Miami hospital on March 21 from complications from a fall, according…
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The Schmooze She’s Everywhere! Mayim Bialik’s Old Navy Ad
We can now add CFO (as in “Chief Floral Officer”) to Mayim Bialik’s blossoming curriculum vitae. The “Big Bang Theory” actress, neuroscientist, mommy, blogger, kosher vegan connoisseur, and attachment parenting expert can now be seen hocking spring dresses in a short Old Navy commercial. Bialik appears in the spot wearing a frumpy frock and floppy…
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The Schmooze Yair Netanyahu Goes AWOL
Yair Netanyahu, son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara, wanted to pop home for Shabbat dinner with his family. So that is just what he did. The only problem was that Yair is an IDF soldier, and he did not have permission to do so. Now, Yair is serving a 21-day military…
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The Schmooze Knesset Member Wants to Dance With the Stars
Sometimes you?ve just gotta dance. At least that?s what Kadima MK Nino Abesadze says. Abesadze is hoping to kick it up on Israel?s version of ?Dancing With The Stars,? but her need to move to the beat is being stifled by Knesset legal advisor Eyal Yinon. He claims that Abesadze?s participation on the show could…
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