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4 Jewish Actresses Who May Be Casting An Oscar Vote This Year
After years of flack for failing to include enough people of color and women among its ranks, the academy is working to do something about it. This year, it has extended invitations to 774 people, including hundreds of women and minorities. And among those 774 people were a lot of Jews. Check out our starter…
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Celebrate The Fourth Of July With These Stunning Yiddish Covers Of American Classics
This post originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Jews like many immigrant groups sought both to assimilate into broader American society and to hold onto their roots. One way to express pride in their Americanism and at the same time celebrate their own culture was to sing patriotic American songs in Yiddish. During the period…
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David Duchovny Remains Silent About ‘The X-Files’ All-Male Writing Team
David Duchovny, the Jewish actor who functions as one-half of the star power behind the long-running hit show “The X-Files”, has remained silent regarding the show’s latest controversy: the all-male writing team behind its 11th season. His onscreen partner-in-crime, Gillian Anderson, shared her indignation in a tweet response yesterday to a Washington Post story that…
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5 Things About Ari Melber, Greta Van Susteren’s Replacement
Just six months after finding a new home at MSNBC, Greta Van Susteren announced Thursday that she was leaving the network. Taking her coveted place will be Ari Melber, MSNBC’s chief legal correspondent. So who is MSNBC’s new primetime host? Here are four things to know about the 37-year-old broadcast journalist. 1. He has a…
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Seth Rogen’s Mom’s Twitter Is The Best Thing You’ll Read This Week
Like all mothers, we need Sandy Rogen, but we don’t deserve her and we certainly don’t do enough to thank her for what she does for us. The Vancouver-based retired social worker is a mother of two who has been described by her son as a “radical Jewish socialist”. She is also a phenomenal tweeter….
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How A Palestinian Internet Star and Israeli Mormon Jew Found Love Online
There is no reason that Nuseir Yassin and Alyne Tamir should be dating. He is Palestinian. She’s Israeli. He’s Muslim, she comes from Jewish and Mormon traditions. He is two years younger than her. When they met, her divorce was barely finalized. She’s a vegetarian. He loves to eat meat. And yet. Yassin, an internet…
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John Mayer Has Graciously Accepted The Fact That He Was Katy Perry’s Greatest Lover
Easily the most cited example of anti-Semitism is the Holocaust, followed perhaps by the Crusades or the Spanish Inquisition. My favorite instance of historical anti-Semitism comes from a study done in 17th century Krakow, when the city appointed a commissioner to answer the age-old question: Why do people hate Jews? After a thorough inquiry, the…
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Alicia Silverstone Is Confused By Everyone’s Obsession With ‘Wonder Woman’
You may still be on a high from seeing “Wonder Woman” in theaters but, for Alicia Silverstone, all the superwoman hype is totally as if. In an interview with Variety this week, Silverstone said she’s “confused” by what a big deal everyone is making about the female-led superhero movie. “Before ‘Wonder Woman’, there were a…
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Something Crazy Is Happening In Troye Sivan’s Life But He’s Not Telling Us What
Sometimes, you have to look hard to see that the world is full of tiny, beautiful things but you don’t have to look very hard to find Troye Sivan, the tiny, beautiful, Jewish pop star who has been making headlines left and right for his music and LGBTQ activism. Big things are happening for Sivan…
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Adam Lambert Is Having A Really Good Month
The fate of “American Idol” contestants is far from uniform. If the universe were right and good, the winners would go on to become superstars, pumping out jam after hot summer jam, taking only brief vacations to make out with models on a yacht off the coast of Tahiti. Runners-up would go on to become…
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‘Million Dollar Matchmaker’ Host Says She Will Break Contestants In ‘Literally’ An Hour
Whether or not you’re ready for it, Patti Stanger’s “Million Dollar Matchmaker” is coming back this summer. The Queen of Tough Love told Page Six that the show is different from Bravo’s “Millionaire Matchmaker,” on which Stanger got her start. “It’s more like ‘Intervention’ meets ‘Millionaire Matchmaker.’ We break you in literally an hour,” said…
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