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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Tel Aviv Scientists Find That Pot Heals Your Bones
Broke your arm? Time to smoke some dope. According to researchers at Tel Aviv University and Hebrew University, marijuana can help heal bone fractures. Their results were published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research. “The clinical potential of cannabinoid-related compounds is simply undeniable at this point… it is possible to detach a clinical…
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Did Bill Cosby Use a Jewish Alias?
A Bill Cosby deposition from a decade ago has revealed some pretty damning facts. In short, the man who, for years, presented himself as America’s nice-guy dad, had no qualms about seducing women with the use of powerful drugs and fame, all while maintaining that he is not, in fact, a sexual predator. As the…
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Sophie Tucker As You’ve Never Seen Her Before
Could not wait to chat with Susan and Lloyd Ecker producers/writers of the delightful, juicy documentary “The Outrageous Sophie Tucker.” Theirs is an illuminating journey with this groundbreaking sexy, uncensored, zaftig — and proud of it — entertainer who wowed the world from 1907 to 1966 whom I knew only from archival film clips and The…
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The Fat Jew Is Your Latest Fashion Model Obsession
What do The Fat Jew and Bar Refaeli have in common? Plenty, as it turns out. According to , the 30-year-old Instagram star has just signed with One Management agency, which also represents the likes of Bar Refaeli and Karolina Kurkova. His end-goal? “Get uncomfortably famous, develop a raging drug problem, then spiral out of…
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And Your Jewish Emmy Nominees Are…
The 2015 Primetime Emmy Award nominations were announced on Thursday. As always, we’ve got the rundown of all the Jewish entertainers you can root for during the actual ceremony on September 20 — if you’re not too distracted by Andy Samberg, that is. Below is a list of nominations in key categories for the Emmy Awards,…
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Amy Schumer Gets Naked With C-3PO
Two things in this world are 100% guaranteed to make me smile: Amy Schumer and Star Wars. So you can understand that the is enough to make me dance with glee. The ‘Trainwreck’ star appears on the cover of the men’s magazine dressed in Princess Leia’s infamous gold bikini, and sucking on a bewildered C3-PO’s…
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‘Wet Hot American Summer:’ Meet the Counselors
Hello campers! The counselors from Camp Firewood are back! (Or are here for the first time, depending on how you look at it.) Netflix has released another promotional video for their upcoming series, “Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp,” a prequel of the 2005 film “Wet Hot American Summer.” The previously released set…
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That Time Emma Stone Taught Woody Allen How to Tweet
Will Woody Allen soon be on Twitter? During an appearance on “Conan” with Conan O’Brien to promote her role in Allen’s latest film, “Irrational Man,” Emma Stone told the audience how she described and later showed Twitter to Woody Allen. Stone, who unfortunately doesn’t have her own Twitter account, explained to Allen that, “It’s a…
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70-Year-Old Letters Describe the Horrors of Buchenwald
“Yesterday we visited something that you might have already read about in the newspaper or heard about over the radio… Not very far from there is a concentration camp.” These words, written by Private Hyman Schulman, to his wife, Sandy, in Brooklyn, while he was in Europe during World War II, are part of TK…
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‘Moses Man’ — A Holocaust Musical of Teens on The Run
“Moses Man,” a musical about a family’s 9-year-long World War II survival odyssey that took them on a sanctuary search from Vienna, to Cyprus, Palestine and Africa before finally landing in America, has enough “now you’re safe, now you’re not!” twists and turns to justify being dubbed a Holocaust musical thriller. With book and lyrics…
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Mel Gibson Signs On For World War II Movie — With No Jews
Mel Gibson has signed as an advisor to a World War II movie out of China. Should we be expecting an anti-Asian rant soon? According to , the film, called “The Bombing,” will be directed by Xiao Feng, and will star Bruce Willis, Song Seung-heon, Nicolas Tse and Liu Ye. The film takes place in…
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