Renee Ghert-Zand
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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The Schmooze A Nose Job Too Far for The Groggers?
Anyone who has been following The Groggers’ rise to Jewish pop-punk stardom knows that the band likes to push the envelope. But they may have pushed it too far with their latest video, “Jewcan Sam: A Nose Job Love Song.” Dr. Michael Salzhauer, a 40-year-old Miami plastic surgeon is under investigation by the American Society…
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The Schmooze Scarlett Johansson Dishes on Photo Scandal
Actress Scarlett Johansson says she felt “absolutely violated” by the hacking of her personal email account and the publishing of nude photos she had taken of herself last year. Speaking out for the first time about the incident, Johansson, 27, recently told Stylist magazine, “It was really terrible; I felt absolutely violated. I wasn’t really…
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The Schmooze Ruth Madoff’s New Digs in Old Greenwich
There goes the neighborhood. Some residents of Old Greenwich, Connecticut are not pleased to learn that they have been joined by none other than Ruth Madoff, wife of the notorious Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff. Rumors that Mrs. Madoff had arrived in town were recently confirmed. She apparently moved last October into a modest (by Greenwich…
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The Schmooze Gilad Shalit To Get Army Discharge
The Israeli press has reported on former Hamas captive Gilad Shalit’s every move since his release and return to Israel last October. First we were informed of the Gilad Shalit shirt craze, then of his first bike ride and his first visit to the beach. Next we saw him being visited by political VIPs like…
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Food Kosher Tour Gives Foodies a Real Taste of Tuscany
Exploring local cuisines around the world when you keep strictly kosher can be supremely challenging. So when celebrity kosher chef Susie Fishbein tasted an authentically prepared Cornish hen with a chocolate port sauce in Portugal at a Shabbat dinner, she was excited and intrigued. This summer, she will help other kosher foodies, get an authentic…
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The Schmooze Bullock and Ratner: We’re NOT Dating
Some celebrities, knowing full well that tabloid reporters like to cook up sensationalist stories, just let the rumor mill churn. But when it comes to the suggestion that she is dating notorious womanizer, gay-basher and producer-director Brett Ratner, Sandra Bullock refuses to go with the flow. In Touch magazine’s cover this week featured a large…
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The Schmooze Mila Kunis Grumbles About Weight Gain
Poor Mila Kunis, GQ’s Knockout of the Year, isn’t happy with her body and sits home alone in the evenings. Or so her cover story in April’s Harper’s Bazaar makes it seem. Apparently, once Kunis gained back the 20 or so pounds that she lost in order to play a ballerina in “Black Swan,” the…
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The Schmooze Eric Nederlander: I Had Postpartum Depression
Broadway producer Eric Nederlander’s divorce from his second wife, Lindsey Kupferman, has brought to light the issue of male postpartum depression. Divorce papers obtained by The New York Post show that Nederlander claimed that it was the baby blues that caused him to physically abuse his wife. Kupferman sought and obtained a restraining order against…
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