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A Forward Classic Returns — With Dr. Ruth Dishing Advice
For the waves of Jewish immigrants who arrived on these shores in the late-19th and early-20th centuries, America was the goldene medina — the golden land. But it could also be a pretty confusing place. And so they turned to the Jewish Daily Forward’s beloved Bintel Brief column to make sense of it all. Started…
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Hip-Hop Mogul Launches Lyric Crusade. Any Takers?
Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons moved the Don Imus debate forward this week, with a call to the recording and broadcasting industries to “remove/bleep/delete” the words “bitch,” “ho” and “nigger.” The Shmooze caught up with Simmons to see if he is hoping to enlist Jewish groups in his new campaign. His initial response was enthusiastic. “Do…
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Remembrance: Kitty Carlisle
Kitty Carlisle Hart, 96, passed away one week after the official end of Passover. The concurrence reminded me of how few of her fans knew she was Jewish — and how lucky I was to have had the chance to hear her talk about that quiet part of her life. We met three years ago…
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Rabbi Takes Unorthodox Trek
Rabbi Yonassan Gershom’s continuing mission: to find a publisher for “Jewish Themes in ‘Star Trek’ (Where No Rabbi Has Gone Before!)” His goal: to use the mother of all sci-fi franchises to teach people about Judaism. “As an intellectual, I related with a person like Spock,” Gershom told The Shmooze. “I was what they called…
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A Jewish Star Shines Anew
After a disappointing debut as a New York Met last season, Shawn Green has hit the ground running in 2007. After seven games his batting average is an impressive .370. To make matters more interesting, the slugger has announced that for every run he bats in this year he will be donating $180 (10 times…
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Madonna Eyes Site for N.Y. Kabbalah Center
Madonna, the Queen of Pop, is gracing the gossip pages again. She’s not announcing a new album. And no, she’s not performing her classic ballad “Live To Tell” while suspended from a giant mirrored cross, as she did during the summer of 2006. As rumor has it, she’ll be making the trip from London to…
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Offensive Foul?
Former NBA star Micheal Ray Richardson found himself in some hot water after news of a March 27 interview started making the rounds. Richardson, who played for the Knicks and Nets and is now a coach with the Continental Basketball Association’s Albany Patroons, was asked before a playoff game about a contract he’d been offered….
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Virtual Journalism
Second Life — the burgeoning online virtual world with more than 5 million registered users — already has synagogues, a Jewish museum, a Holocaust memorial, a Western Wall replica and, yes, antisemitism. Now it has its own Jewish magazine. The first issue of 2Life, an English-language magazine chronicling Jewish life in Second Life, hit the…
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In Newsweek’s List of America’s Top Rabbis, Hier is Highest
Winning a few Oscars and hanging out with Governor Arnold might be enough to get you a place on the Forward 50, but good luck cracking the top five. Thankfully for Rabbi Marvin Hier, however, now there’s another game in town with a preference for Los Angeles-based rabbis. This week, Newsweek published its own Top…
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Fashionista Finds Her Fellow Funders
Jewish philanthropists and Jewish fashion moguls don’t often run in the same circles, but a recent parlay of the tribe’s top donors may have changed all that: Sartorial superstar Donna Karan dipped her toes into the pool of Jewish givers last week when she made an unexpected appearance at the 2007 Jewish Funders Network conference…
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Treyf, But a Hoot All the Same
Hooters, the American restaurant chain known primarily for its scantily clad waitresses, announced this week that, come summer, it would be expanding into the Holy Land. Ofer Ahiraz, owner of the Atlanta-based company’s new Israeli franchise, said that he plans to open his first branch in Tel Aviv with the possibility of more to follow….
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