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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‘Sexiest Doctor Alive’ Saves Birthright Participant’s Life On Israel Flight
It sounds more like an NC-17 dream than reality — the man People magazine called “The Sexiest Doctor Alive” leaped into action to save a life when a passenger on his flight to Israel went into anaphylactic shock. But you know what they say about Israel: If you will it, it is no dream. 29-year-old…
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Sarah Jessica Parker Opens Up About Her #MeToo: ‘I Just Push It Down, Push It Away’
Imagine this: You are one of the wealthiest and most bankable actresses in the world. You and your film star husband both enjoy status as icons. You head up a production company, eventually producing your own prestige television shows. You’ve been decorated with awards and lucrative endorsement deals. A male coworker begins behaving inappropriately toward…
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Meet Megan Rapinoe’s Jewish Girlfriend, WNBA-Star Sue Bird
Filed under, Things We Wish Our Grandparents Had Lived To See: A lesbian Jewish basketball star passionately kissing the woman who led the U.S. Women’s Soccer team to yet another World Cup victory. Related story: Megan Rapinoe’s Brother Was Once In A White Supremacist Gang. He’s Inked Over His Swastika Tattoos. Your neighbor, your rabbi,…
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Naomi Campbell And Paula Abdul Pay Tribute To…The Lubavitcher Rebbe
25 years ago this week, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the leader of the Chabad Hassidic movement who some Jews believe to be the messiah, died. Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, a biographer of Schneerson, who was known to his followers as The Rebbe, says, “He really established what is, as far as I know, the first attempt…
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What Is It With Jewish Millennial Women And ‘Bachelor Nation?’
I was a junior at Stern College for Women when I stumbled upon my first “Bachelor” party. I was foraging for a late-night snack from the vending machine in my dorm building, when I noticed that the lounge’s couches were filled with girls, crowding around the TV and talking about what sounded to be the…
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Meet The Jewish Actors Who Are In The Running To Play Elvis Presley
As a child, I would sit with my bubbe in front of her television set, watching her insert a worn out VHS tape into her VCR of a concert of one of her favorite musicians – the maybe-but-maybe-not-Jewish Elvis Presley. The golden age of rock and roll is through, and the age of musical biopics…
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Who Is Joe Biden’s New Jewish Daughter-In-Law, Melissa Cohen?
In the 2016 presidential elections, it was said that whichever candidate won — Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton — the president would have Jewish grandchildren. Both Trump and Clinton have a child who married a Jewish person. Joe Biden, a hopeful for the 2020 Democratic bid, would also bring Jewish in-laws to the White House….
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A Neil Diamond Musical Is Headed To Broadway
There’s not a trace of doubt in our minds that a Neil Diamond musical is headed for Broadway. A new musical about the life and career of one of the most famous Jewish American singers of the last fifty years is currently in development, Deadline reported. The age of biopic musicals on the Great White…
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Karlie Kloss: Converting To Judaism Before Marrying Joshua Kushner Wasn’t ‘Weak’
The Talmud states that this is the first question the beit din — the group of rabbis sitting in judgment — should ask of a person seeking to convert to Judaism: “Why should you wish to convert — do you not know that the people of Israel at the present time are persecuted and oppressed,…
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Gal Gadot: I Show-Off My Israeli Pride In Response To Anti-Semitism
“Wonder Woman” star and international sweetheart Gal Gadot is always talking about Israel — the hummus! The people! The hand-to-hand combat training! So. Is this some kind of public relations strategy, a journalist for the Israeli tabloid Walla asked Gadot this week? Perhaps a Zionist scheme? “No!” Gadot said in Hebrew, shaking her head and…
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Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, And Scooter Braun’s Fight, Explained
A group of the most powerful players in entertainment are in a financial struggle laced with sexual politics. On one side: Taylor Swift, backed by fellow pop stars including Halsey and supermodel Cara Delevingne. On the opposition: Justin Bieber and Demi Lovato, with potential assists from Kanye West and Kim Kardashian. And at the center?…
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