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Sarah Silverman’s Response To Louis CK Is Devastating
What do you do when a person you love does bad things? Sarah Silverman loves America, but she doesn’t understand what led to the outcome of the 2016 election. She made the TV show “I Love You, America” to try to get to the bottom of it, and laugh along the way. And Sarah Silverman…
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Pregnant Gal Gadot’s Trick For Morning Sickness On Set
An assistant. A bucket. The human larynx. This is how Gal Gadot handled her morning sickness while filming “Justice League” and doing reshoots of “Wonder Woman.” Read on if you have the stomach for another story about the approachable heroics of Gal Gadot, alias “Wonder Woman,” alias “Diana Prince,” alias the world’s sweetheart. Doing press…
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Miss Iraq Issues A Statement About Posing With Miss Israel At Pageant
The universe is sending Adar Gandelsman and Sarah Idan mixed messages. The two women, representing their respective countries as Miss Israel and Miss Iraq at the Miss Universe pageant this month in Las Vegas, posted pictures posing together on Instagram on Tuesday. “Peace and love from Miss Iraq and Miss Israel”, Idan captioned her photo….
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It’s The 5th Yartzeit Of The ‘Twilight’ Movie Franchise
Five years ago today, the final movie in a franchise that reframed the national conversation around sex and romance was released. “Twilight: Breaking Dawn 2” represented the end of the general public’s formal relationship with the pedophilia, incest, bestiality, and necrophilia-flexible world of the “Twilight” saga. Stephanie Meyers wrote four “Twilight” series books, and those…
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Drake Stopped His Concert Because He Saw A Man Groping Women
Drake has had more bar mitzvah parties than a boy should ever have, but on Tuesday he may have finally become a man. At an afterparty performance in Sydney, Australia, the polymath was rapping onstage when he saw someone in the audience he believed was groping women. A post shared by HOT 97 (@hot97) on…
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Announcing The Forward’s Sexiest Jewish Intellectual Award
As of Tuesday morning, America officially has the “Sexiest Man Alive” that it deserves: a 41 year-old divorcee with an arm tattoo and a history of homophobia longer than his back hair. Country star Blake Shelton was crowned People’s 33rd Sexiest Man Alive and immediately provoked a fanfare celebrating some of his most mindlessly hateful…
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Recipes Making Weed-Infused Matzo Balls With Joan Nathan
Queen of Jewish cooking Joan Nathan likes to add fresh ginger and nutmeg to her matzo balls. The Forward 50-honoree also puts homemade chicken stock into the matzo ball mix to add flavor. She finishes by mixing in chopped up fresh dill, parsley and cilantro. Recently, she added one more thing: Cannabis leaves. In collaboration…
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Miss Israel and Miss Iraq Pose On Instagram For World Peace
Contestants at the Miss Universe beauty pageant say they want one thing and one thing only: world peace. And on Monday, Adar Gandelsman of Israel and Sarah Idan of Iraq took to Instagram to make a surprisingly radical statement about world peace and the power of images. Gandelsman, representing Israel at the Miss Universe pageant…
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Jenny Slate and Chris Evans, Kindly Stop Playing With My Heart
I believe it was Stacy Ann “Fergie” Ferguson of the Black Eyed Peas who once sang, “Oh no, no, no, don’t phunk with my heart.” Fergie, who, notably, is also the vocalist on the band’s songs “Where Is The Love?” and “Don’t Lie”, does not joke. And neither do I. It is with great gravity…
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The Dreidel Fidget Spinner Is Here — Just In Time For Hanukkah
According to the story of Hanukkah, the Maccabees fought against forced assimilation to Hellenist culture. Now 2017 has us asking…is a little assimilation so bad? Assimilation has brought us things like matzo-ball ramen, Jewish baseball players, and heck, even presents on Hanukkah. Now, it’s brought us something even better: The Fidget Dreidel. Like latkes and…
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‘Justice League’ Star Ezra Miller Was Told Coming Out Was ‘A Mistake’
Queer-identifying Jewish actor Ezra Miller says he was told that he’d “made a mistake” by coming out. In an interview with ShortList he said that after he described himself as “queer” in 2012, “I was told I had done a ‘silly’ thing in…thwarting my own potential to be a leading man.” via GIPHY Since 2012,…
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