Shira Feder
By Shira Feder
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The Schmooze Jeffrey Tambor Is Not Being ‘Transparent’ About Whether He Will Remain On The Show
A Los Angeles family is rocked by the revelation that the person they knew as their father Mort is a transgender woman named Maura, in the critically acclaimed Amazon show “Transparent.” The show was a liberal wet dream, full of sensitively handled gender exploration and nuanced portrayals of Jewish life. But the bubble burst when…
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The Schmooze Need To Phone A Friend? Tommy Wiseau Is On The Line
James Franco and Tommy Wiseau. Who can even tell the difference anymore? One’s a Jewish artiste, and one’s a European of indeterminate origin. But these days they’re looking very similar. Years ago, Wiseau rented a Los Angeles billboard advertising his movie “The Room”, fated to go down in history as the worst best movie ever…
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The Schmooze Are Men Scum? Not On Facebook.
Ironic misandry in the form of “ban men!” and “I want to take a nice long soak in male tears!” has become pretty popular lately. Yet, as a new piece in The Daily Beast revealed, women can be banned for calling men scum on Facebook. ProPublica’s investigation into Facebook’s algorithm revealed that white men are,…
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The Schmooze Taylor Swift’s ‘Reputation’ Has Its First Great Cover
Oh, Taylor. What are we going to do with you? While “Reputation” wasn’t exactly hailed as a masterpiece by the American public, the treacly, cliché-ridden lyrics and sticky, conventional EDM inspired hooks coalesced into an album that facilitated one of the finest bits of musical theater to ever haunt the aimless void of YouTube. Meet…
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The Schmooze Look Out Aesop, Jenny Slate Is Muscling In
A fable is a moral tale that often features animal characters. Think the boy who cried wolf or the story of the tortoise and the hare. Most of the fables that we’re familiar with were written by the legendary Greek slave Aesop. But not anymore. Not now that Jenny Slate is releasing a book. Jenny…
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The Schmooze Has Slavery Show From ‘Game Of Thrones’ Creators Been Abandoned?
If you don’t care to envision an America where slavery was never abolished, you certainly aren’t alone. When the Jewish creators of “Game Of Thrones,” D.B. Weiss and David Benioff, announced that their next venture was an alt-history show where slavery had never been abolished, eminent scholar Ta-Nehisi Coates felt hehad to get involved. The…
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The Schmooze Everyone Loves Israeli Chocolate Spread. Even Gwyneth Paltrow.
Israelis have their own versions of everything, from Google Maps, which they’ve replaced with Waze, to Nutella, which they’ve replaced with Elite’s Pesek Zman chocolate spread. And even Gwyneth Paltrow is a fan. Paltrow’s father is Jewish and she’s mentioned in interviews how she grew up celebrating both Jewish and Christian holidays all her life….
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The Schmooze ‘The Marvelous Mrs Maisel’ Lives Up To Its Name
For fans of “Gilmore Girls,” certain aspects of Amy Sherman Palladino’s newest venture “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” will seem familiar. There’s the whip-smart, snappy dialogue of “Gilmore Girls,” now moved to 1950s New York where it is even more at home. There’s the blunt yet vulnerable brunette heroine at the center of the action, shifting…
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