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Jews Who Fought Hitler, ‘Menashe’ And More To Read, Watch And Do This Weekend
Personally, I think President Trump’s communications director Anthony Scaramucci’s graphic rant to The New Yorker is the only entertainment I’ll need this weekend. Should you be looking for something less lurid and politically disheartening, check out our recommendations below. 1) Watch The much-anticipated Yiddish-language film “Menashe,” which chronicles the struggle of a Hasidic widower to…
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Here Are All Of Your ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Guest Stars In Order Of Increasing Importance
HBO finally announced on Wednesday the stars who will be joining Larry David on Season 9 of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and, as usual, The Schmooze has opinions! You can find, in order of increasing importance, the celebs who will be marching alongside David this fall. 11.Elizabeth Perkins Who? 10.Lauren Graham Why? 9.Ed Begley Jr. No….
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This Jewish Player Won The World Series Of Poker With A Pair Of 2’s
(JTA) — Scott Blumstein admits it: He never expected to get the card he needed to become the World Series of Poker champion. Blumstein, 25, of Brigantine, New Jersey, pulled a deuce on the river — the final card of a poker round — to win with a pair of twos in a dramatic finish…
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Jon Stewart Returns
Jon Stewart, or Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz as he’s known both in our hearts and to his mother, has finally decided to wake up from his nearly two year nap to resume what God put him on Earth to do — tell jokes about Saddam Hussein. The comedian announced Wednesday that he’s teaming up with HBO…
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Larry David Reveals He’s Related To Bernie Sanders
One of the great things about being a celebrity is you don’t have to order a kit on “23AndMe” to find out you’re 1/32 American Indian (congratulations but you still can’t wear a feather headdress to Coachella). Instead, you can find out everything you want to know about your family’s history on the PBS series…
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Sarah Silverman Compares Star Of David To American Flag
Sarah Silverman inserted herself Wednesday into the debate over recent instances of LGBT groups banning “Zionist displays” from their events, specifically the Chicago Dyke march and Chicago Slutwalk. In response to a Slate article titled “This Is a Safe Space. No Jews Allowed”, Silverman tweeted out her opinion about the controversial decision. Aw friends- the…
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‘You Are Not A Burden’: Jewish Celebrities Tweet Out Against Trump’s Transphobic Military Ban
On Wednesday, the aged block of cheddar cheese that’s currently governing our country tweeted out that he would be reinstating a ban on transgender citizens serving in the military. Unsurprisingly, he announced the ban on his favorite presidential platform — Twitter. The liberal and, let’s be honest, evolutionarily evolved world exploded in response to Trump’s…
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Roxane Gay Pens NYT Essay Decrying HBO’s Alt-Reality Civil War Drama
In an essay published July 25th in the New York Times, Roxane Gay voices her exhaustion over narratives that imagine a world in which slavery still exists. She writes specifically about “Confederate”, the upcoming HBO show from “Game of Thrones” showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, that will tell the story of a fictional reality…
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Film Featuring All-Hasidic Cast Receives Rave Reviews At Sundance
Dreams of becoming a movie star are probably few and far between among Hasidim. Many Hasidic communities tend to be distrustful of the secular and going to the movies or watching television is often forbidden or, at least, heavily discouraged. That’s why Menashe Lustig, a Hasidic performer who hails from New Square, New York, is…
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Viral Petition Demands Macy’s Drop Ivanka Trump’s Clothing Line
When the last polar bear has dropped dead and the last freshwater lake has been tainted by the salty liquid of a rising ocean, will we be able to take comfort in the fact that Ivanka Trump’s clothing line has been dropped by every major department store in America? Maybe! It didn’t take long for…
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Sick Of Hearing About ‘Wonder Woman’? You’re Really Going To Hate This News!
‘Wonder Woman’ is to pop culture news as ‘Donald Trump’ is to political news, which is to say it’s very, very good for it. In the same way Trump’s ascendence upped revenue across the board for the political media, pop culture writers are acutely aware that writing about ‘Wonder Woman’ will attract the clicking masses…
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