Renee Ghert-Zand
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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The Schmooze Is a Holocaust Music Video a Good Idea?
The noted “second generation” author Thane Rosenbaum has rejected the label “Holocaust writer,” saying that Holocaust narratives can only be written by those who personally lived through its horrors. He’d probably say the same about Holocaust music videos — that is, if he could even wrap his head around the notion of such a thing….
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The Schmooze ‘Hitler’ Haircuts All the Rage
A lot of young guys have been walking lately into barbershops all over the world asking for a certain hairstyle. It’s not a new one. In fact, if you are at all familiar with archival film footage and still photographs from Germany in the 1930s, you will recognize it immediately. Older people may cringe at…
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The Schmooze Revealed! Henry the K Blasted Jews
It seems Henry Kissinger had little patience for Jews who were fighting for the rights of their brethren in the Soviet Union or lobbying for Israel. Britain’s Daily Mail reports that newly-released State Department documents indicate that in 1972, when he was National Security Advisor in the Nixon administration, Kissinger called such Jews “bastards.” At…
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The Schmooze Mouse Sperm Breakthrough Could Help Cure Infertility
In a tale of mice and men, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researchers have made a breakthrough in rodents that could eventually help infertile male humans. The group, led by professor Mahmoud Huleihel, has produced mouse sperm from germ cells using in-vitro techniques. The researchers at Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology and Immunology in the…
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The Schmooze Entire Marc Jacobs Collection Stolen
The Shmooze has some advice for you if you happen to be a fashion editor waiting to get another look at Marc Jacobs’s spring/summer 2012 collection shown at New York’s Fashion Week in September: Don’t hold your breath. As it turns out, the entire collection — all 46 looks — has gone missing in transit…
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The Schmooze Israel’s First Zombie Movie
Cinephiles who happen to be both zombie movie fans and Israeli film buffs will be glad to know that the first Israeli zombie movie is set to be released this coming June. According to AbbaNibi newswire, director Eitan Reuven has said that the end of post-production on “Another World” is finally in sight. Work started…
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The Schmooze Hubby: Boehner Shunned Wounded Gabby
It looks highly unlikely that we will ever chance upon Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’s husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, having a friendly beer with Speaker of the House John Boehner. Gawker noticed that The Hill published excerpts from Kelly’s new book, “Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope,” that clearly showed that Kelly is more than a…
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The Schmooze Collector Keeps Israeli Art ‘Out of the Ghetto’
Donald Rothfeld, a retired cardiologist from New Jersey now living in New York, has decided to keep his significant Israeli art collection “out of the ghetto.” Consequently, Rothfeld has donated it to the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center in Washington, D.C. Rothfeld made the gift together with his wife, Susan Merker, and…
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