Renee Ghert-Zand
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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The Schmooze Julian Schnabel Auctions Surfboard for Charity
Visual artist and Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Julian Schnabel has donated one of his limited edition “Blind Girl Surf Club” surfboards to a charity auction in California for Surfers Healing: A Foundation For Autism. The black surfboard, which has a picture of a girl with a purple mark over her eyes on one side and “Blind…
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The Schmooze Unladylike Brawl on Jerusalem Light Rail
Operation of the Jerusalem Light Rail has not gone smoothly since it finally got up and running late this summer. Earlier this month, some drivers held a strike, and others quit their jobs over pay issues. An elderly man was badly injured when struck by a train car. Windows have been broken by stones thrown…
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The Schmooze Tony Kushner to Receive $100,000 Award
Playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner has been awarded a $100,000 prize for “Creative Citizenship” by The Nation Institute and The Puffin Foundation. The honor, recognizing his socially conscious work, will be formally bestowed upon him at The Nation Institute’s Annual Gala on December 5 in New York. According to a press release, Kushner was chosen…
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The Schmooze Streisand To Sing for the IDF
Barbra Streisand is set to headline a star-studded gala for the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces in Los Angeles on December 8. Organizers of the fundraiser are considering this a coup, given that the singer rarely agrees to sing at such events and has yet to accept invitations to hold a concert in Israel….
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The Schmooze ‘Kosher’ Clothing Crackdown in Jerusalem
In another sign that the Holy City is also the holier-than-thou one, Jerusalem’s chief rabbinate is going to begin a kashrut certification program for clothing stores. According to the Srugim website (the portal for Israeli news from the national religious perspective — not for the popular Israeli television series of the same name), this has…
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The Schmooze Visit Einstein’s Brain in Philly
Albert Einstein may have died in 1955, but his brain is still around — very small pieces of it, that is. For the first time ever, the public can now view 46 slivers of Einstein’s brain on display in a special exhibition at the Mütter Museum and Historical Medical Library, which is run by the…
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Life When Women Are Attacked for Speaking Out
“A Woman’s Opinion is the Miniskirt of the Internet.” That is the title of an op-ed piece in Britain’s “The Independent” that a friend of mine recently sent me. It is by Laurie Penny, a 25-year-old writer known by many for her blog, “Penny Red,” and is about the horrific hate mail she receives on…
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Life Journalist Mona Eltahawy Assaulted in Egypt
American-Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy has been freed after being beaten, arrested and interrogated by security forces in Cairo. Eltahawy, 44, has reported that she was also sexually assaulted during her 12-hour detention. She is in Egypt covering the violent protests in Tahrir Square and its environs. Eltahawy is the first Egyptian journalist to have lived…
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