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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Why Are Jewish Parents Letting Their Children Watch The Eclipse?
“And I need you now tonight/And I need you more than ever” The singer of the world’s most famous song about eclipses is referring to many things here: a person, love, her heart, and according to the song’s actual writer, vampires. Love, supernatural monsters, and internal organs are needed, tonight and always. But what about…
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A Biblical Exegesis Of Taylor Swift’s Snake Video Tweet
“And the serpent said to the woman, “You are not going to die, but G-d knows that as soon as you eat of it your eyes will be open and you will be like divine beings who know good and bad.” Genesis 3: 4-5 “Boys only want love if it’s torture/Don’t say I didn’t say,…
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The Secret Jewish History Of ‘Total Eclipse Of The Heart’
Today, as the United States experiences its first coast-to-coast solar eclipse, Bonnie Tyler will celebrate by belting her 1980s ballad “Total Eclipse of the Heart.” Released in 1983, the song spent four weeks at the top of the Billboard singles chart and netted Tyler a Grammy nomination. Yet Tyler shares credit for the song’s success…
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Here’s To Jerry Lewis And Dean Martin, The Original Taylor And Katy
Sometimes, it can seem like Taylor Swift and Katy Perry invented the celebrity feud. But decades before Swift accused Perry of stealing her backup dancers in cold blood, Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin hated each other. In the wake of Lewis’s death, a video is making the rounds of Frank Sinatra, in true “Real Housewives…
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Marvel’s ‘The Defenders,’ Sarah Ruhl On Peter Pan And More To Read, Watch And Do This Weekend
The world hasn’t ended yet, but summer soon will. Make the most of it with our weekend culture picks. 1) New York City Playwright and MacArthur Fellow Sarah Ruhl has a new play making its New York premiere at Playwrights Horizons; catch “For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday,” now in previews. If you’re musically…
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Does The Cast Of ‘Jersey Shore’ Think Seth Rogen Made Up The Term ‘DTF’?
In honor of the 10th anniversary of “Superbad,” the teen sex comedy that you could only appreciate prior to taking Gender And Women’s Studies 101 in college, Seth Rogen dropped a whole bunch of trivia facts about the film on Twitter. As a beautiful, young woman with a vibrant social life, I usually exit stage…
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Arnold Schwarzenegger To Neo-Nazis: ‘Your Heroes Are Losers’
The chorus of voices joining together across America to condemn white nationalists and neo-Nazis has reached a cacophonous level. It seems that everybody and their Republican grandma is coming out of the woodwork to tell Donald Trump “you’re drunk, go home.” But among these, one voice stands out above the noise — the voice of…
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Tina Fey Tells People Not To Rally Against White Supremacists
This past week, celebrities have been tripping over themselves to issue the most memorable indictment of the events that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia last weekend. Even Jimmy Fallon, a man who’s rabidly committed to containing his show to jokes that both conservatives and liberals can not laugh at together, got in on the action….
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Meet Erin Davis, Fairy Godmother Of The New York City Jewish Singles Scene
Erin Davis’s grandparents grew up in the same Polish village, were herded into the same ghetto, fell in love in hiding, and escaped together to a displaced person’s camp. Erin Davis’s parents fell in love at a Denny’s Diner. Today, Erin Davis believes that love can be found at a boutique New York City gym,…
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White Supremacist From Vice Documentary Banned From OkCupid For Life
It appears that the white supremacist featured most prominently in Vice’s Charlottesville documentary, Chris Cantwell, simply cannot get no satisfaction when it comes to both white people facing imminent displacement by Jews AND matters of the heart. Whoever runs OkCupid’s twitter account tweeted Thursday afternoon that Cantwell would no longer have the right to search…
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Nathan Fielder Helps Small Business Sell Chili Illegally In New ‘Nathan For You’ Trailer
In the long-awaited fourth season of the pseudo-reality show “Nathan For You,” Nathan Fielder once again goes on a rampage against the hopes and dreams of small business people. In one short season, Fielder will start the first asexual computer repair shop, launch a plot to destroy Uber, and help a small business sell chili…
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