The Schmooze lies at the intersection of high and low culture. Here, the latest developments and trends in Jewish art, books, dance, film, music, media, television and theater are all assimilated into one handy pop culture blog.
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Economist Joseph Stiglitz goes analog to rebut Trump at Davos in real time
Addressing a packed auditorium in the World Economic Forum in Davos, on the first morning of the conference, President Trump painted a rosy picture of the American economy, crediting his administration’s policies with achieving “an economic boom the likes of which the world has never seen before.” It’s true that unemployment is currently at 3.6%,…
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Meet The Israeli Performance Artist Critiquing Americans’ Obsession With Money
View this post on Instagram My $500,000 briefcase is for sale for $1,000,000 The difference goes to charity?@ophirariel @baselmiami @artbasel #artbasel #artbaselmiami #art #artistrymakeup A post shared by CAPITALI$MAN (@capitalist.man) on Dec 7, 2019 at 9:20am PST Who would pay a million dollars for a briefcase stuffed with just half of that? That’s what Capitalist…
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Where’s Waldo? A striped t-shirt becomes an American Jewish sensation
The Siyum HaShas — a nationwide celebration that ends each cycle of Talmud study — occurs only once every seven and a half years. So when Brooklyn accountant Yonatan Gray had a belated idea for how to celebrate it, he had to wait a long time to put it in action. At the 2012 Siyum,…
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Timothée Chalamet to portray Bob Dylan in upcoming biopic
When Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016, he didn’t know that the greatest accolade of his life still lay ahead — the honor of being portrayed by an actor whose face is so precious people make money by superimposing it on Impressionist art. In other words, Timothée Chalamet. On January 6,…
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Karlie Kloss’s Kushner Connections Come Under Fire on Project Runway
On Thursday, our favorite new member of the tribe Karlie Kloss was called to answer for her political connections on the literal runway. The supermodel-turned-coder, who serves as a judge on the current season of Project Runway, was taken aback when a contestant sardonically asked if she would wear one of his creations to dinner…
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Zac Efron Hospitalized For Typhoid While Filming Reality Show ‘Killing Zac Efron’
Reality TV just got really…real. While filming an shoot for ominously-titled reality TV show ‘Killing Zac Efron’ in Papua New Guinea, real-life star Zac Efron was hospitalized with a life-threatening case of typhoid. After becoming ill, Efron, 32, was evacuated from Papua New Guinea to Brisbane, Australia, where he was treated for several days before…
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Hallmark’s Hanukkah Movies Do More Damage Than Good, By Portraying Jews As Outsiders.
The Jewish television viewing public asked for meaningful Hanukkah content. They asked for made-for-TV holiday schmaltz that would allow them to pretend they have a perfect seasonal wardrobe and live in tastefully decorated suburban houses without also pretending that they celebrate Christmas. Instead, they got two movies about an alternative universe where silly Jews know…
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The Definitive Ranking Of Coats in “Mrs. Maisel” Season Three
“Nobody really dressed like that,” says my father, a person who was sentient in the 1950s, about “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” “Is that supposed to be a bathrobe or something?” he says of Rose’s splendid housecoats. “The word nerd didn’t exist back then. Who wrote this show?” Jewish tradition teaches the importance of bearing witness…
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“Elena of Avalor” Gets Hanukkah Right (Almost)
This holiday season, Disney Junior delivered what once seemed impossible — a Hanukkah episode with no Christmas trees. Despite the prevalence of Jews in Hollywood, when Hanukkah makes an appearance on TV, it’s usually as a sidenote or a joke. This year, made-for-TV giant Hallmark dipped a brave toe in the waters of multiculturalism by…
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The Forward’s 3rd Annual Sexiest Jewish Intellectual Alive (And One Dead) Awards
When the Red Sea crashed in on itself and the people of Israel tumbled out on the other side, unharmed, subject to miracle, and free for the first time in their lives, they very quickly started complaining. And so it is each year, when I release “The Forward’s Sexiest Jewish Intellectual Alive (And One Dead)”…
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Instagram Influencer Elizabeth Sutton Talks Judaism, Divorce And Art
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Elizabeth Sutton (@elizabethsuttoncollection) on Oct 16, 2019 at 5:40pm PDT If multi-tasking splits the brain in two, than Elizabeth Sutton’s mind resembles a pie cut into eights, or tenths, depending on the hour, or day, or minute. The New-York based artist and mother of…
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