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Here Are All Of Sunday’s Jewish Oscar Nominees
Happy Oscars-Shabbat! Hold on to your hats — here are all the Jewish people and Jew-ish movies that will be competing for Academy Awards in major categories this Sunday. BEST PICTURE “Black Panther” The nod for the cutting-edge Marvel movie is a huge moment for Black representation, and a credit to our non-Jewish friend, director…
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Online Store Apologizes For ‘At Least I’m Not Jewish’ T-Shirts
When you’ve got nothing but the hope in your heart and the shirt on your back, at least you’ve got this: you’re not Jewish. Wait, what? Zazzle, an online store that allows users to design and personalize objects like stationary and throw pillows, has dropped a user-designed t-shirt that read, “At least I’m not Jewish!”…
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg To Be Immortalized In Lego Form In ‘The Lego Movie II’
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has given the makers of “The Lego Movie II: The Second Part” permission to use her image in the upcoming film. That’s right: one of the greatest legal minds in human history contains multitudes (of Legos.) The criterion “Lego” producers Chris Miller and Phil Lord set for cameos in…
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Gloria Steinem Declares Allegiance To Women’s March, Shouts Out Jewish Voice For Peace
[ Feminist and Jewish icon Gloria Steinem declared her total allegiance to the national Women’s March movement on Saturday, in spite of the roiling controversies and accusations of anti-Semitism that have been leveled against some of the march’s top leadership. Steinem took the small stage in New York City’s Foley Square on Saturday morning wrapped…
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Leslie Jones: The New ‘Ghostbusters’ Is Insulting, ‘Like Something Trump Would Do’
When at first you don’t succeed, abandon women and go back to making movies starring only men. This, Leslie Jones claims, is the reasoning behind Jason Reitman’s upcoming “Ghostbusters” sequel — another follow-up to the classic film after the woman-focused reboot starring Jones was a box office bomb in 2016. Reitman, whose father Ivan Reitman…
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Ariana Grande’s ‘7 Rings’ — Satire Or A Big Misstep?
How do you solve a problem like a young female pop artist? Singer Ariana Grande is known for sex anthems, public breakups, and hair dos that conjure up a horse’s backside, so perhaps you should be forgiven for dismissing her as a person not to be taken seriously. No forgiveness will come from these quarters,…
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Louis CK, Remorseless: ‘I like to Jerk Off, And I Don’t Like To Be Alone’
“I have spent my long and lucky career talking and saying anything I want,” world-famous comedian Louis CK wrote in the New York Times in November 2017, in a statement acknowledging that he sexually harassed five women. “I will now step back and take a long time to listen,” he wrote. Just over a year…
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Michael Cohen Paid For A Twitter Account To Call Him A ‘Sex Symbol’
Who has two thumbs and thinks Michael Cohen is a “strong, pit bull, sex symbol”? Not women. A major report by the Wall Street Journal found that former Trump attorney Michael Cohen paid RedFinch Solutions, LLC to rig polls in the 2016 presidential election to benefit President Trump. According to the Journal, Cohen also paid…
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Senators Debate Whether To Support Cardi B’s Anti-Trump Screed
If poets are the true legislators of the universe, then rapper Cardi B is the true supra-natural leader of the galaxy. With the sticky-fingered glee of schoolboys, senate Democrats have taken to trumpeting her message to Americans in light of the ongoing government shutdown. The 26-year-old cultural sensation released an instantly-viral video on Instagram, assessing…
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Sarah Silverman Is ‘Heartbroken’ About Women’s March Leadership
On Saturday, a sea of pink knitted hats will once again fill the streets of major cities as, for the third annual Women’s March, women unify in pursuit of human rights. But how many of those women will be Jewish? Comedian Sarah Silverman succinctly summed up much of the American Jewish response to the ongoing…
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Meet The Bisexual Jewish Rock Star On Netflix’s ‘Sex Education’
Sex education is sweeping the nation. No, not the system of keeping children and teens apprised of their bodies’ reproductive and pleasure systems, but something even better: a television show! “Sex Education,” a British TV series that debuted on Netflix over the weekend, has young people buzzing like — well — whatever buzzes — we…
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