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Collectors’ Item
Last month, a California man made collectors history when he sold his 1909 Honus Wagner baseball card for a record-setting $2.35 million. Next month, Martin Abramowitz, the driving force behind Jewish Major Leaguers — an outfit dedicated to documenting “American Jews in America’s Game” — will be celebrating a comparable, if significantly less pricey, piece…
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New Perch For ‘Lobby’ Observer
After close to a year of authoring a blog hosted by the Web site of The New York Observer, journalist Philip Weiss has decided to pull up stakes and strike out on his own. The reasons, Weiss said, were part economic, part political. “I wanted money after a year, and the Observer didn’t want to…
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Camp Paris
For The Shmooze, it has been a source of both shame and pride that Paris Hilton has never given us a reason to write about her. A gossip page without the hot hotel heiress is a bit like a circus without a clown. Recently, though, Hilton gave us our big chance when she took up…
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Poll: Black and Kravitz Need To Jew Things Up
As readers of The Shmooze know, actor-singer Jack Black is not hiding in the Jewish closet: Last year, during a December 7 appearance on “The Tonight Show,” he discussed his Hanukkah plans and told of how a childhood Seder, at which an aunt organized a skit for the kids, got him hooked on performing. But…
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‘Titanic’ Star Makes Waves at Western Wall
Leonardo DiCaprio launched a titanic tussle in Jerusalem this week, when the actor’s bodyguards clashed with photographers at the Western Wall. DiCaprio, who is touring Israel with girlfriend Bar Rafaeli, made a stop earlier in the day at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial.
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Da Latest Ali G Lawsuit
Marketing executive Heddi Cundle’s self-penned Tribe.net profile describes her as a “[n]atural leader and decision-maker. Ingenious thinker and astute long-range planner. Logical and analytical. Determined, emphatic and exceptional organizer. Strong motivation and work ethics. Decisive and great aptitude for creative problem solving. Shares birthday with Vincent Van Gogh. ” Add to that: determined litigator —…
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Kabbalah Costumes
Pop diva Madonna and her film director husband, Guy Ritchie, celebrated Purim in Los Angeles at the Kabbalah Centre. Boy George, famous for his everyday-is-Purim wardrobe, recently criticized the Material Girl because of her ties to the center. “Nobody has actually bothered to investigate the Kabbalah attitude to gay people and I can assure you…
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Who Needs Sanctions If You Have Groggers?
White supremacist David Duke and the international Jewish campus organization Hillel each ushered in Purim with a message painting this year’s celebration as a time to worry about Iran. For Hillel, this meant setting up a Web site that portrayed Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as a modern-day Haman. The site featured groggers drowning out his…
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Napoleon Synaplex
It’s bad enough when two divas show up for a big bash in the same dress — but the rabbi and the synagogue president!?! Well, it happened this year at Temple Beth Zion-Beth Israel in Philadelphia, where the rabbi, Ira Stone, and the president, Bob Fleischman, both showed up for the Purim festivities as Napoleon….
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Batting For the Other Team
Two years ago, on Jewish Heritage Day at Shea Stadium, home of the New York Mets, rookie first baseman Mike Jacobs electrified the crowd when he used his first major league at bat to hit a home run. The fairy tale had just one unfortunate wrinkle: Jacobs turned out not to be Jewish. Last year,…
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The Real Knockout: Anna Nicole’s Judge
The Florida judge who decided the fate of Anna Nicole Smith’s body seems to be trying to make as much of a splash with his dramatic courtroom decorum as the fallen playmate made in her colorful life. Judge Larry Seidlin, a Jewish boy from the Bronx who once worked as a cabbie before being elected…
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