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Jewish Artist Troye Sivan Pens Chart-Topping Gay Sex Anthem
You can bet your bottom dollar that gay sex will not remain a taboo topic in mainstream culture much longer. For this we can thank Jewish and Australian singing sensation Troye Sivan, whose new hit song “Bloom” seems to be an anthem to homosexual discovery. Sivan, 22, who rose to prominence on YouTube and Star…
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Ben Stiller And The Real Stormy Daniels Join Forces In Starry SNL Sketch
It was a starry and stormy night on Saturday when Ben Stiller returned to “Saturday Night Live” as Michael Cohen along with Alec Baldwin, Scarlett Johansson, Jimmy Fallon, and the flesh-and-blood stormy Daniels. In a cold open more focused on shock-value than humor, laughs and artistry come mostly from the show’s repertory players — Kate…
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Nic Cage’s Son Converts, Marries “Goddess” In Jewish Wedding Ceremony
On a golden day in Canyon County, California under a woven chuppa and in front of an aquamarine pool, Weston Cage Coppola married a woman he as at times referred to as a “goddess,” “my one true queen,” and “incarnation of everything I’ve ever desired.” A post shared by Weston Cage Coppola (@westoncage) on May…
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Stormy Daniels Smacks Down Roseanne Barr On Twitter
We’re one year and 104 days into Donald Trump’s presidency and America resembles nothing more than a cultural Boggle set. Shake it, and you get “Giuliani,” “Kanye,” “Peace in Korea,” and “smokey eye.” So it was inevitable that Stormy Daniels and Roseanne Barr, two of the biggest and most unlikely names of 2018, would eventually…
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Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon Are In A Very Important Movie About Spies
“Women should get their own stories,” said Rachel Weisz, when asked recently if she was interested in seeing a remake of the Bond films with a female protagonist. “Why not create your own story?” It is with that spirit of intrepid female creativity that we introduce Schmooze readers to the trailer for what may be…
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Mitt Romney’s ‘Favorite Meat is Hot Dog’ — But Does He Eat Hebrew National?
“My favorite meat is hot dog,” Utah senate candidate Mitt Romney announced today. Now he’s getting roasted. We have a beef with Romney — are these hot dogs kosher, or not? Let’s begin by taking a look at the exact quote, in a profile of Romney in the Washington Examiner this week. So does Mitt…
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Meghan Markle Was Maid of Honor In Her Best Friend’s Jewish Wedding
It was with a somberness bordering on despair that we learned last year that future royal Meghan Markle is not Jewish. It hit us like a Roman centurion hitting the Second Temple: Meghan Markle would never attend a Jewish wedding in the church of England. (^Those were the days) Except Meghan Markle did attend a…
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Roman Polanski Appealing After Motion Picture Academy Expels Him, Bill Cosby
If millennials are spoiled in part because they were given too many participation trophies, then boomers are leading us into complete social collapse because they want awards for denouncing a child rapist a mere 41 years after he admitted to rape. Get the justice league over at the Motion Picture Academy Association a couple of…
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Is Sex A Human Right? The Talmud Passage That Has The Answer Has Gone Viral.
The Talmud is like that friend of yours who has something to say about everything, and everything to say about sex. It’s a sizable text (the Steinsaltz Bavli Talmud, for example, is 29 volumes in total) that acts like a great, organically growing comments section — a literary Jewish reddit spanning hundreds of years, written…
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Movie News: ‘Disobedience’ Disappoints, Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Leonard Bernstein
Readers: You may have assumed that writing about culture for the Forward has earned me vast, uncountable riches. Your assumption is wrong. To date, I’ve probably made enough money at the Forward to plant, uh, half a tree in Israel. So why work here? The answer is simple: I have a passion for crafting concise,…
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‘RBG,’ Rachel Kushner’s ‘The Mars Room’ And More To Read, Watch And Do This Weekend
We’ve had one day of spring, and now it is summertime! Congratulations to all; may you have blissful weekends at the beach, in the park, or, if you are a certain Forward writer, doing battle with the Rodent of Unusual Size that has found its way into your apartment’s walls. If you are happily rodent-free,…
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