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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Donald Trump Is Gonna Be a Zayde — Again!
There’s a new bundle of joy on the way! Ivanka Trump has announced she and hubby Jared Kushner were pregnant with their third child via an incredibly sweet photo of Trump with their first two children, Arabella, 4, and Joseph, 23 months. The couple, married for about six years, have become the darling of the…
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Lena Dunham (With an Amy Schumer Pop-In) Interviews Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton tells millennial queen Lena Dunham that she “absolutely” is a feminist in an interview with the Girls’ star, who was an early big booster of the former secretary of state’s presidential run. The interview will run in full next Tuesday on the 29-year-old Dunham’s new website, LennyLetter.com. To say the chit-chat is a…
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Artist Anish Kapoor Slams France For Covering Up Anti-Semitic Vandalism on ‘Queen’s Vagina’
British-Indian artist Anish Kapoor made news in three European capitals over the Jewish High Holy Days, marching with Ai Weiwei for refugees in London, fighting anti-semitism in France, and opening a major exhibit in Moscow. The biggest of this media trifecta was the vandalism on a sexually-suggestive piece nicknamed the “queen’s vagina” at the Palace…
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Everything You Ever Needed to Know About ‘Frum Porn’
Frum porn. It’s a thing. A recent story published in Vice found no less than 74 videos tagged “frum fetish” on a porn site called clips4sale.com. Another 31 were tagged “frum lesbians.” Most of these clips, Vice reports, come from a site called frumvids.com(click at your own peril), which specifically caters to an Orthodox Jewish…
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How ‘Broad City’ Does Yom Kippur
Two lovely, if morally questionable, Jewesses + bacon, egg and cheese sandwich + hangry kvetching + whipped cream + Oprah posters = a “Broad City” Yom Kippur. May your fast be as delightful! Broad City Get More: Comedy Central,Funny Videos,Funny TV Shows
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Say Hello to Brad Falchuk, Gwyneth Paltrow’s New Man
Mazel tov to Gwyneth Paltrow and former Glee producer Brad Falchuk, on making their relationship The photo of the pair was posted to Brad’s account instead of Gwyneth’s, which makes us think that they’re still trying to leak the news slowly. (Gwyneth has 1.2 million followers; Brad has around 500 at the time of the…
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6 Movies To Atone To on Yom Kippur
Now we know some consider it heretical to watch movies on Yom Kippur, but rumor has it that some Jews (GASP!) spend the Day of Atonement propped in front of a TV screen. In Israel, that is not an option. As you may or may not know, all TV channels turn dark once the moment…
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Giulio Ricciarelli Exposes Holocaust Ignorance in ‘Labyrinth of Lies’
“I assumed your film [“Labyrinth of Lies”] was fiction — not realizing you were recreating history,” I told Giulio Ricciarelli during our chat at the Regency Hotel. In this, his directorial debut film of the behind-the-scenes drama that led to the 1963-65 Frankfurt [Auschwitz] trials, which, he said “was as important in its way as the…
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Mayim Bialik Visits Dad’s Grave Before Emmys
Actress Mayim Bialik visited the grave of her father before the Emmy Awards ceremony. Bialik, plays Amy Farrah Fowler on the popular sitcom “The Big Bang Theory,” told People magazine in an article published on the magazine’s website Sunday that she would visit the grave of her father Barry, who died in April, because it…
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Why the Emmys Were Huge for the Jews
To borrow a word from Donald Trump, the 67th Emmy Awards were huge for Jewish talent. When Jewish stars weren’t scooping up the Emmy’s flamboyant statues — really so much better than those dinky Globes — Jewish creators, writers, and directors were. The biggest winners: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Amy Schumer, Jon Stewart, and Jeffrey Tambor, star…
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A Jew’s Guide to Repentance
On the latest episode of , a public radio show and podcast, host Krista Tippett and Jewish ethicist Louis Newman talk repentance, reflection and learning to confront our sins head on.
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