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Amy Schumer And Her New Husband Spotted, Looking Madly In Love
“I’m probably like 160 pounds right now,” Amy Schumer famously announced, accepting her Glamour Woman Of The Year Award in 2015, “And I can catch a d**k whenever I want.” The brazen comedian is all done with her days of catch-and-release, it seems. Amy Schumer married chef Chris Fischer in February, and the pair have…
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Is Spielberg Going To Make Indiana Jones A Woman?
Well here’s another step towards equality in Hollywood: Indiana Jones just might be India Jones — or Joan. “We’d have to change the name from ‘Jones’ to ‘Joan.’ And there would be nothing wrong with that,” Steven Spielberg said in an interview with The Sun. While Harrison Ford (75) is set to star in the…
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Movie News: Silent Film About Anti-Semitism Reemerges, Harvey Weinstein Gets Dumped
Assuming you’re a reader of the Forward, you’re probably well aware that “Jewberg” is not a real Jewish surname. According to a recent story in the Outline, members of the Russian media are not quite so savvy. In a bizarre twist, it turns out a self-proclaimed US State Department analyst and anti-Putin commentator named David…
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Hillary Clinton Called Putin A ‘World-Class Misogynist’ At The Wing Last Night
Hillary Clinton addressed a crowd of women at the women’s-only co-working space The Wing in SoHo last night, in conversation with Audrey Gelman (co-founder of The Wing) and Aminatou Sow (co-founder of Tech LadyMafia). Clinton called Putin a “world-class misogynist”, People reported. “Angela Merkel came to visit him and he knew the intelligence and he…
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Harvey Weinstein Was So Impossible That Even His Crisis PR Firm Just Dropped Him
You know you’re in trouble when even your top-of-the-line, tough-as-nails crisis public relations firm drops you. Sitrick and Company, a PR firm based in New York City, will no longer represent disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein, The Hollywood Reporter reported. Sitrick and Company has been representing Weinstein since October, when the New York Times and…
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Ricky Gervais, British ‘Office’ Creator, Applauds Denmark’s Ban On Kosher Slaughter
We’re only four days into Passover, and it’s already been bad for the Jews. Between a far-right German party calling for the removal of a Holocaust memorial, and a Washington Post confessional lambasting Jewish men (is that OK now?) — now British celebrity director Ricky Gervais (creator of the UK’s ‘Office’ and star of the…
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She Swears Off Dating Jewish Men — And The Fury Of Twitter Is Beautiful
By now, you’ve probably all read that explosive Washington Post essay entitled “I am tired of being a Jewish man’s rebellion” by Carey Purcell about the terrible struggles of being a female WASP dating Jewish guys who end up breaking your heart and settling down with a good Jewish girl. It’s tough to be a…
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‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Director Reed Morano To Direct Anne Frank Film
Reed Moran, director of Hulu’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’, is in talks with Fox Searchlight to direct the Anne Frank drama ‘Keeper of the Diary’, TheWrap reported. Keeper of the Diary follows Otto Frank’s journey to find a publisher for his daughter Anne’s diary, which she wrote while in hiding during the Nazi occupation of the…
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Bottom’s Up: The Forward Presents A Passover Seder Drinking Game
Mud-drenched snow clumps are melting on the sidewalks, drugstores are filled with pastel candy, and the smell of aging hardboiled eggs is already in the air, and that can mean only one thing — it’s time for Passover. The Passover seder is over a dozen specific steps disguised as a festive meal that is no…
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Clarice Lispector, ‘The Zen Diaries Of Garry Shandling’ And More To Read, Watch And Do This Weekend
Like you, many of us at the Forward will be spending much of this weekend focused on Passover. As you prepare for the holiday, make time for some of the Forward’s most powerful articles about it: Founding editor Ab Cahan’s newly translated essay of his first Passover in America, Itzik Gottesman’s account of Eastern European…
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How Do You Ask The Four Questions In Swahili?
Over recent years, a curious tradition has cropped up in many traditional Jewish family seders: The recitation of the Four Questions in a variety of languages. “Jewish children have been reciting the Ma Nishtana for about a hundred generations and…in many different countries,” writes Ilana Kurshan in her book, “Why Is This Night Different from…
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