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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15 Reasons Schmidt From ‘New Girl’ Is the Ultimate Jewish Friend
Season 6 of “New Girl” (finally!) starts tonight and we’re celebrating by paying homage to the loft’s resident Jew, Schmidt. Apologies for playing favorites, but out of all of the crew, we would definitely most want to co-opt him as our roommate. Driving moccasins and all. He’ll give it to you straight. He has no…
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Steely Dan Co-Founder Donald Fagen Assaulted Wife, Cops Say
Walter Becker and Donald Fagen of Steely Dan. Steely Dan founding member Donald Fagen was ordered to keep his distance from his wife of more than two decades after New York City cops say he knocked her to the floor of their Upper East Side digs in Manhattan. The New York Times reports that Fagen,…
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BREAKING: Bar Refaeli Is an Actual Pregnant Human Being
Bar Refaeli, beloved Israeli top-model and TV show host, announced on New Year’s Eve that she was expecting her first child with husband, businessman Adi Ezra, who she married in September of 2015. So what does Israel’s most beautiful woman look like pregnant? Well, luckily, you don’t have to wonder about that: there’s photographic evidence….
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Sheldon Harnick Raises the Curtain on ‘Fiddler’ Memories
‘Fiddler’ lyricist Sheldon Harnick, R, weighed in in on the latest production. With him in this photo is composer Jerry Bock, L, and The Forward’s Masha Leon. With “Fiddler On The Roof” back on Broadway with Danny Burstein as Tevye the Milkman, I asked the musical’s 91-year-young lyricist Sheldon Harnick for his review of this…
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BFFs Amy Schumer and Jennifer Lawrence’s Retirement Plans Include Each Other
The entire world has been watching the Amy Schumer and Jennifer Lawrence love story unfold. The two have become fast friends over the last year, delighting us with wonderful moments of female friendship. Like that time they and went water skiing together. But we’ve been especially delighted by their constant support of each other’s work….
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We’ll Miss You, Dr. Zizmor!
If you have spent any time in the New York City subway in the last 20 years you have seen the kitschy rainbow ads for Doctor Jonathan Zizmor, New York’s most famous dermatologist. Fondly known as Dr. Z to native New Yorkers, over the years, Zizmor has become part of the very fabric of New…
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Mark Zuckerberg’s New Year’s Resolution Puts Yours to Shame
While the rest of the world contemplates a new health regimen or better money management to start off 2016, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has loftier goals in mind. In a January 3 , Zuckerberg discussed his personal goal of coding his very own artificial intelligence to help him with daily life. “My personal…
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7 Strangest Jewish Jokes on ‘New Girl’
(JTA)— Fans like to call “Seinfeld” one of the most-Jewish sitcoms of all time, even though it makes so few explicitly Jewish references. In that regard, the successful Fox sitcom “New Girl,” which stars Zooey Deschanel and will start its fifth season Jan. 5, is a foil to the “show about nothing”: It’s chock-full of…
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Bar Refaeli Announces She’s Pregnant — on Instagram
Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli announced in an Instagram post that she is expecting her first child. Refaeli, 30, posted a photo of a positive pregnancy test on her Instagram account. “2016 is going to be like…” she wrote, followed by an icon of a baby bottle and an icon of a baby. The post received…
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16 Jewish Pop Culture Predictions for 2016
Since it’s the season for 2016 predictions, we bring our own: 1) A Clickhole-originated petition to have Mel Brooks replace the current voice of the New York Subway system will, after gaining surprising grassroots power, succeed, to the joy of New Yorkers and tourists alike. 2) Lil Dicky, the not-so-serious rapper responsible for bringing us…
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Barack Obama Gets Cameo in Jerry Seinfeld’s ‘Show About Nothing’
They didn’t leave the White House grounds and coffee was drunk in a staff dining room, but comedian Jerry Seinfeld took U.S. President Barack Obama out for short spin in the latest episode of his popular web series “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.” In his latest pop culture venture, Obama filmed a special guest spot…
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