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2006: Fact or Faux Pas?
In lieu of establishing a “Jewish Awareness Month” in 2007, take the YPASI (You’re Probably An Antisemite If…) test to see if you’re an A-S. 1) When comedian Michael Richards said that he identified as Jewish, you felt: a) disappointed that he hadn’t opted for Scientology. b) embarrassed, like how Senator George Allen felt when…
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Hat Trick: Two Goals and a Speaking Tour
Jewish professional athletes, especially Orthodox ones, may face stiff challenges breaking in, but they sure do get noticed fast. Exhibit A: Benjamin Rubin. The 17-year-old just made it onto a hockey team in a Canadian minor league that most Americans have never heard of. But two months in and Rubin’s already got speaking engagements in…
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Saluting The Fresh Prince
MULTITALENTED WILL SMITH HONORED AT MUSEUM GALA “I salute all of you who contributed to my career,” Will Smith, honoree at the December 3 Museum of the Moving Image dinner, told the black-tie crowd at the Waldorf-Astoria. “I want to thank my mother for making love to my father… I know it was not easy,”…
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Boxer Bends Diet for Presidential Treats
Among the guests at the White House’s Hanukkah party were Jewish boxer Dmitry Salita and his trainer Jimmy O’Pharrow. “It was very exciting, a great holiday gift,” the undefeated, Odessa-born, New York-raised pugilist told the Shmooze. After an hour or two of drinking and mingling, Salita said, he and O’Pharrow were called into the separate…
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Dreaming of a White House Hanukkah
President Bush’s national approval ratings may have hit rock bottom, but it’s safe to say he has a fan in 14-year-old Ariel Cohen. Ariel was tapped to light the menorah at this year’s Hanukkah party, held Monday, on the fourth night of the holiday. She was picked for the gig after meeting Laura Bush when…
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Laura Keepin’ It Kosher
The lady of the house was on hand Monday to make sure that no treyf was left behind. Laura Bush joined Rabbi Binyomin Taub, Rabbi Hillel Baron, Peter Olster and Rabbi Mendy Minkowitz in the second-ever kosherizing of the White House kitchen.
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What’s an Indiana ‘HooShir’?
Whether you are a devotee of basketball coach Bob Knight, a native Indianan or even a historian of the Midwest, nobody today quite knows the origin of the word “hoosier.” But a few Jewish a cappella singers at Indiana University have provided their own meaning — and landed a White House holiday gig along the…
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Late Night Quiz for Carter
Can anyone blame former President Jimmy Carter for believing that the American media harbor a stifling pro-Israel bias? First his book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid” (Simon & Schuster), was trashed in the pages of The Washington Post by journalist Jeffrey Goldberg and on Slate.com by Michael Kinsley, as well as by other pundits. Then Carter…
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Merry Christmas, Now Die
Last year superstore chain Wal-Mart enraged religious conservatives by instructing employees to wish customers “Happy Holidays.” Well, ’tis the season to be jolly — Wal-Mart switched back to “Merry Christmas” and now Christian conservatives are happy. This year it is liberals who are protesting — over Wal-Mart’s decision to stock on its shelves the Evangelical…
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Applauding the Adelsons
YAD VASHEM HONORS THE ADELSONS — PHILANTHROPISTS EXTRAORDINAIRE “I don’t remember so many people standing up as when I was on the chow line in the army,” said Sheldon Adelson, chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corp. He and his wife, Dr. Miriam Adelson, were honored at the November 19 American & International Societies…
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Clicking Toward a Pastime of Yore
A California-based Web site is putting a new spin on Hanukkah this year, not with dreidels but with many a Jewish grandmother’s favorite pastime: mah jongg. Starting after the Sabbath ends on Saturday, December 16, and continuing nightly through Saturday, December 23, the Web site mahjongtime.com will host the first-ever online Hanukkah mah jongg tournament….
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