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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Lindsay Lohan Thanks Anthony Weiner
While hosting “Chelsea Lately” last night, a newly released Lindsay Lohan opened by thanking her fellow celebrities for giving us all something to talk about while she was in rehab. As you all know for the past 90 days, I’ve been on a lovely court-ordered vacation in Malibu, she quipped, adding: “I have a lot…
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Lea Michele Sings a Song for Cory
Less than three weeks after Cory Monteith was found dead in his hotel room, girlfriend Lea Michele is back at work. US Weekly reported that the “Glee” star was in the studio on Monday to record a song which will play in the hit show’s tribute episode to Monteith planned for the third episode of…
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Meet the No. 2 Israeli on Facebook
For her 30th birthday, Meytal Cohen is achieving every struggling artist’s dream — she’s sticking it to her family. On August 9th, Cohen’s Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for an original album will come to a close. With only three days to go, she has almost doubled her $60,000 goal and has 2,519 backers. But…
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Jazz Rabbi Gets a New Gig
The Jazz Rabbi has a new gig. Saxophonist Greg Wall, who spent three years making klezmer and jazz concerts a staple at an East Village congregation, has a new pulpit in Connecticut. On August 1 Wall began work at Beit Chaverim Synagogue of Westport and Norwalk. The shul, which has 65 families, is located in…
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Rita Cosby Shows How Ladies Get Things Done
“It’s been crazier than ‘reality TV’…many of you have heard the name “Carlos Danger”…it’s nice to be here and back to sanity,” said keynote speaker TV news personality Rita Cosby to the 700 guests at the April 1 St. Francis Food Pantries and Shelters’ “Women of Valor Tea” at the Waldorf-Astoria. Emceed by Fox News…
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Of Course Sydney Leathers Has a Sex Tape
Surprise, surprise. Syndey Leathers, Anthony Weiner’s latest virtual paramour, has a sex tape. Subscribers of Vivid Entertainment — incidentally, the same company that Farrah Abraham sold her sex tape to — now have access to two videos of Leathers: a 35-minute video of her photo shoot, complete with frontal nudity and an 18-minute follow up…
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‘The O.C.’ Turns Ten Today
Can you believe we first laid eyes on Seth and Summer exactly 10 years ago? Ouch. “The O.C.” is celebrating its tenth anniversary, and twenty-somethings everywhere are feeling their age. It’s hard to describe the impact that Josh Schwartz’s coming of age series had on people of my generation. “Influential”doesn’t begin to cover it. It…
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Inside the Sex Industrial Complex
There won’t be much physical action in “Married Sex,” Washington, D.C.-based playwright Laura Zam’s latest work. And, truthfully, like the complaints of many long-married couples, the sex in this one-woman show is really just a starting point to discuss relationships, traumas and healing. But the play, which makes its New York debut August 10 as…
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Books Writing the Tradition
Earlier this week, Daniel Torday wrote about Jewish novella-writers and discussed the complicated “Jewish Writer Question.” Daniel’s novella “The Sensualist” won the 2012 National Jewish Book Award in Outstanding Debut Fiction. His blog posts are featured on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning’s Author Blog Series. For more…
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James Deen On Making It in Hollywood
Between James Deen’s mainstream debut alongside Lindsay Lohan in the indie-noir film “The Canyons” and the upcoming biopic “Lovelace” (based on “Deep Throat” star Linda Lovelace) it seems everyone’s talking about porn. Plenty of porn stars have tried to shed their taboo image for a more squeaky-clean Hollywood career. But in an interview with Vulture,…
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Max Greenfield Does a Killer Vanilla Ice
If you’ve ever watched “New Girl,” the fact that Max Greenfield does a killer Vanilla Ice impression should come as no surprise. His lovable schlemiel character, Schmidt, would be proud. For reasons unknown to humanity, Greenfield and Paul Scheer (“The League”) decided to reenact a classic Vanilla Ice and Arsenio Hall interview for the “ArScheerio…
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Yiddish וואָס צוויי פּאָעטן האָבן געשריבן וועגן זייערע מאַמעסWhat these two Yiddish poets wrote about their mothers
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