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Meet Anthony Rapp, The Actor Accusing Kevin Spacey of Childhood Sexual Assault
Last night, Buzzfeed News published an exclusive report detailing an alleged childhood sexual assault on actor Anthony Rapp by Kevin Spacey. Spacey, a two-time Oscar winner and current star of “House of Cards,” said last night that he doesn’t remember the interaction with the then 14 year-old boy, but apologized “for what would have been…
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A List Of Our Favorite Moments From The Kathy Griffin Revenge Video
If you are a little girl harboring dreams of one day making a name for yourself in the City of Stars, let me be the first to crush your dreams — Hollywood is a festering cesspool of toxic misogyny, unfathomable greed, and a general sense of complete emptiness. Do literally anything but go there and…
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‘We Fell In Love Before We’d Even Really Held Hands’: Mandy Moore Met Her Jewish Fiancé On Instagram
It was September 2015 and Amanda Leigh Moore was sad. Her career was stalled. She was separating from her husband Ryan Adams, who would later come out with an album about their relationship entitled, “Prisoner.” Her Instagram was mostly pictures of small animals and humorous Ryan Gosling memes referencing astrology. But! There was a song…
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You Don’t Want To Know How Much Money Paul Newman’s Rolex Just Sold For
What is a 1968 Cosmograph Daytona – Reference Number 6239? A car model? A declassified CIA file? The working title for a 2045 Bond film that will star the little boy from “Room”? In some sense, a 1968 Cosmograph Daytona – Reference Number 6239 is anything we want it to be. In another more accurate…
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Jews, Witches, and Sorcery: The Remarkable Tradition That Is Still Practiced Today
“Rabbi,” asks a man in that evergreen Jewish fairytale film “Fiddler on the Roof”: “Is there a proper blessing for the tzar?” It’s late October, and Jews leery of Halloween and its pagan origins may be wondering if there is a ritual saying for a witch. There is a curse, actually, written up neatly in…
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Mila Kunis Has Given Her 3-Year-Old Daughter Wine Every Shabbat Since She Was Born
Mila Kunis may be starring in a movie called “A Bad Moms Christmas,” but the Jewish mother of two with Ashton Kutcher has a committed Shabbat practice for her family. In a confessional interview with co-star Kristin Bell, Bell admitted that neighbors have caught her feeding her daughter nonalcoholic beer. Kunis responded: Want me to…
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100-Year-Old Couple Celebrates Their Wedding Anniversary: ‘I’ve Loved You For 80 Years’
Marcia Jacobs is 100 years old. Arthur Jacobs is 105. This week their marriage turned eighty. One of the couple’s six grandchildren, Gabe Jacobs, caught the Jacobs on tape wishing each other a happy anniversary on Monday. Marcia, who served for many years as the director of social work at the Hebrew Home for the…
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Drop Everything: Drake Had A ‘Re-Bar Mitzvah’ Party
Little Aubrey Drake Graham turned 31 this week and demonstrated that he is, beyond a reasonable doubt, a man. Rapper Drake rang in 31 (13 if you go the Hebrew-reading direction) with a “Re-Bar Mitzvah” at Poppy in Los Angeles. My bar mitzvah board ? A post shared by champagnepapi (@champagnepapi) on Oct 22, 2017…
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Mazel Tov! Bar Rafaeli Welcomes Second Daughter
Israeli supermodel Bar Rafaeli and heir to a family food fortune Adi Ezra welcomed their second daughter, Elle Ezra, over the weekend. (This sentence actually comes from a rare Isaac Bashevis Singer manuscript for a futuristic novel that was discovered in a time capsule recently.) Same week, same dress, same place. Different year. ✨ A…
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Can You Tell The Difference Between A Jewish Model And This 19th Century Painting?
The quietly revolutionary and unimpeachably cool Jewish model Hari Nef recreated John Singer Sargent’s 1883-4 painting “Madame X” as part of a series for Harper’s Bazaar. The 25-year old model, who has also starred on Transparent, appreciates the way Sargent’s subject, Parisian socialite Virginia Amelie Avegno Gautreau, refuses to engage with the viewer. “You can…
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The Schmooze’s Top 12 Jewess Halloween Costume Ideas
While Halloween isn’t really a Jewish holiday, why not take the opportunity to make it so by channeling your favorite Jewish females this year? There’s no question that girls of all ages will be sporting Gal Gadot’s fabulous Wonder Woman outfit, which should be one of the most popular costumes this year. Here are our…
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