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5 Most Stunning Looks From The Met Gala
The Met Ball, aka the biggest fashion night of the year, happened Monday night — and we’re still taking in all of the fierce, wacky, I-could-literally-never-pull-that-off outfits put on display. The event, which raises money for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, celebrated Japanese designer Rei Kawakubo and her label, Comme des Garçons this…
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We Can’t Make This Up: Yiddish Song Performed On Mongolia’s American Idol
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Besides Mexico City, which hosts the annual Yiddish Idol competition, there really is nowhere on earth where you would expect to hear a Yiddish song performed as part of a singing competition, let alone on national television. Recently, however, the American-Jewish singer Amalia Rubin performed an excellent…
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The Singing Israeli Couple Is Back With Another Dreamy Single
Everyone’s favorite Israeli musical couple Yonina is back — and their latest song is just as dreamy as ever. Yoni and Nina Tokayer, whose video covering Matisyahu’s “One Day” went viral last summer, released their new song “Love,” which is pretty much as gentle and delightfully pure of a song as you could possibly ask…
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11 Best Moments Of Samantha Bee’s ‘Not The White House Correspondents Dinner’
Brassy, TV obsessed, head full of dyed-blond(e) hair, and fond of the word “pussy”: we’re not talking about President Donald Trump, we’re talking about Samantha Bee, the host of her own show “Full Frontal” and Saturday’s special, “Not the Whitehouse Correspondents’ Dinner.” In the phalanx of late night TV hosts dedicated to discrediting the Trump…
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7 Reasons to Watch Jill Soloway’s New Show ‘I Love Dick’
This is the story of obsession as told by popular entertainment: boy meets girl, boy projects every single one of his desires onto girl, girl resists, boy wins girl/murders girl. In a new Amazon Studios venture by “Transparent” creator Jill Soloway, this story is flipped. “I Love Dick,” based on the cult-classic metafiction book of…
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‘Donald Trump’ Interrupts The Daily Show to Defend Himself
Donald Trump paid a timely visit to “The Daily Show” yesterday to celebrate his first 100 days in office, and, as Noah said, “his first eighteen-hundred holes played.” Anthony Atamanuik gave Alec Baldwin a run for his money with an impression that’s a bit more flamboyant, and a skin tone that plagiarizes directly from Frito-Lay….
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WATCH: Carrie Fisher Shines In The Last Role She Ever Filmed
It’s fitting that the last role Carrie Fisher ever filmed features her airing her opinions on mental illness, offending someone, and being so enchanting that we miss her before she’s even gone from the screen. The actress wrapped filming on the third season of the British-American comedy hybrid “Catastrophe” last December and boarded a flight…
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A Banned Israeli Romance, And More To Read, Watch, And Do This Weekend
Dorit Rabinyan’s novel “All The Rivers” caused a scandal in Israel, where the novel, which follows a romance between an Israeli Jewish woman and a Palestinian man, was banned from schools by the Ministry of Education. Its English translation arrived this week, as did a sobering essay by Rabinyan about the isolation she faced after…
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Married For 69 Years, They Die Together — Holding Hands
A Jewish couple married for 69 years died only minutes apart, hand in hand, last weekend. Isaac Vatkin, 91, and Teresa Vatkin, 89, were both lying unresponsive in a Highland Park, Illinois hospital, when their grandchildren arranged them together so that they could hold hands. “I didn’t want them to be scared,” their granddaughter Debbie…
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4 Jewish Fun Facts For Pretzel Day
Written while noshing on pretzels at Forward HQ. Here are some interesting facts to impress your Jewish family and friends on #nationalpretzelday. 1) Kim Oster-Holstein of Kim and Scott’s Gourmet Pretzels is one BAF (Bad Ass Female). She’s the founder of Kim and Scott’s Gourmet Pretzels and CEO/CIO “Chief Inspiration Officer” of Crave Bar, a…
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Yes, There’s Definitely An Amy Schumer/Jennifer Lawrence Movie Coming
When the news came out that Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Schumer were writing a movie together, the pop culture heavens opened up and we gave thanks for what was sure to be a brassy, bold, hilarious gift of a movie. But then two years went by without any real updates. Well, never fear, because in…
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