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Welcome Back, Shteyngart
In the opening pages of his first novel, “The Russian Debutante’s Handbook,” Gary Shteyngart has his ne’er-do-well protagonist slaving away at the dreary headquarters of a New York immigrant aid society where the “yellow water-stained walls and dying hydrangeas” offer all the charm of “a sad Third World government office.” Shteyngart, whose second novel, “Absurdistan,”…
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Must See TV: 1 vs. 99 + Shmuley
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, host of the Learning Channel’s “Shalom in the Home” and author of “Kosher Sex,” recently added a few feathers to his multimedia hat. The bearded Hasidic rabbi logged a stint as a celebrity guest on NBC’s game show “1 vs. 100” and won $10,000, which he plans to donate to Jewish Family…
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Short Cuts
Pop diva Britney Spears may have dropped Kabbalah, but she seems plenty interested in Jewish studs. Just a few weeks ago, The Shmooze noted that Spears was dating South African-born Jewish record producer Jonathan “J.R.” Rotem. Now, word is that she has moved on to model Isaac Cohen…. A New York judge has ordered Jerry…
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Jerry Stiller: Son Of Sunni, Shi’ite
STILLER A STELLAR HIT AT CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY GALA “My father was a Litvak, my mother a Galitz — one Sunni, the other Shi’ite,” Jerry Stiller told the guests at the Center for Jewish History’s December 6 Board of Overseers and Board of Governors dinner, held in the center’s impressive atrium. Special guest Stiller…
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Comic Tribute
Walid Hassan, the 47-year-old host of the sketch-comedy show “Caricature” on Iraq’s al-Sharqiya television, spent years helping his fellow Iraqis laugh at the vagaries of life during wartime — Sunni insurgents, Shi’ite militias, American troops, blackouts, bumbling or corrupt bureaucrats. The tragic punch line came November 20, 2006, when he was gunned down on a…
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Danish and Coffee
Among the more exciting sessions at last month’s Association for Jewish Studies conference in San Diego was one devoted to the furor in the Muslim world over the Danish cartoons of Muhammad. The panel’s most memorable moment, however, had little to do with the cartoons — indeed, little to do with scholarship at all. The…
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Saluting Those In Uniform
THEME AT DECEMBER 7 USO GALA: “LAND OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE” “If you want to see America’s melting pot, look to the military,” said Brian Whiting, executive director of USO of Metropolitan New York, at the December 7 USO & Armed Forces Golf Medal dinner at Cipriani 42nd Street as he looked…
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How To Translate Body Language?
Isaiah Sheffer is in a bind. The artistic director of New York’s Symphony Space and the host of National Public Radio’s “Selected Shorts,” Sheffer was asked by the National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene to direct a staged reading of Neil Simon’s “The Sunshine Boys” in Yiddish for a January 7 benefit. In and of itself, this shouldn’t…
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While You Were Away
With readers on vacation or out enjoying Hanukkah/Christmas/Kwanzaa parties, The Shmooze spent the holidays on the lookout for broadcast nuggets that might have been lost in all the year-end reveling. Our favorites: Jay Leno took an unusual interest in comic actor Jack Black’s Jewish background when Black appeared December 7, 2006, on “The Tonight Show”…
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Brainy Banter At 92nd Street Y Benefit
LIGHTS! CAMERA! LAUGHTER! AT 92ND ST Y’s BENEFIT “She knows more about movies than I know about sex,” said petite psychiatrist Ruth Westheimer about film scholar Annette Insdorfat New York City’s 92nd Street Y’s “On Politics & Culture” lecture series benefit, held December 4 at Cipriani 23rd Street. Insdorf, director of Columbia University’s undergraduate film…
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Our Loss, Boise State’s Gain
The Boise State Broncos needed three trick plays in the final seconds of regulation and overtime Monday night to beat the Oklahoma Sooners in the Fiesta Bowl and cap an improbable undefeated season. One of the stars of the games, Boise State junior safety Marty Tadman, who ran an interception back for a touchdown in…
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