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Tuesday’s Shmooze Celebrity Roundup
The super svelte Gwyneth Paltrow threw caution to the wind and enjoyed some serious carbs while recently celebrating her 40th birthday in Italy. The paparazzi caught her living — and smooching — it up in Portofino with hubby Chris Martin of Coldplay. Mayim Bialik channels classic TV housewife icons like Lucy Ricardo and June Cleaver…
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Bar Rafaeli’s Sex Tape Fundraiser
Israeli supermodel Bar Rafaeli is raising money in a fake (or is it?) Kickstarter campaign to create a sex tape. We’ll let her promotional video speak for itself. Bar Refaeli’s Sex Tape Kickstarter from Bar Refaeli
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Author Blog: Love is the Answer
Lenore Weiss is the author of the collection Cutting Down the Last Tree on Easter Island, is now available. Her blog posts are featured on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning’s Author Blog Series. For more information on the series, please visit: I’m in the process of relocating…
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Monday’s Shmooze Celebrity Roundup
Here’s what you may have missed while you were building your sukkah: Anne Hathaway married her Jewish fiancé, Adam Shulman, in Big Sur, California on Saturday. The ceremony reportedly took place in front of 150 guests, and the bride wore a custom designed gown by Valentino. The affair was planned by Israeli-born Yifat Oren, whose…
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Friday’s Shmooze Celebrity Roundup
There was lots of buzz yesterday about a new collaboration between writer Adam Mansbach and actor Samuel L. Jackson. You may recall that the latter did a popular audio version of the former’s wildly popular picture book, “Go The F-ck to Sleep.” Well, now, it appears to have dawned on them to tell America to…
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In Defense of Jake Gyllenhaal
Part of being a journalist is correcting the injustices in this world, and I’m here to do just that for someone who’s been needlessly and heedlessly mistreated for so long that he has become nearly forgotten. I’m talking, of course, about Jake Gyllenhaal. The puppy-eyed actor, so fabulously crushable as recently as two years ago…
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The Jewish Actor Who Would Not Be Intimidated
The Austrian Jewish actor Fritz Kortner (1892-1970) is still a household name among German-speaking theater lovers, due to CD reissues of his readings, paperback reprints of his memoirs, and biographical tributes. Such was not always the case, as we learn from a fascinating essay, “Fritz Kortner on the Postwar Stage: The Jewish Actor as a…
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Books Author Blog: Mr. Expert on God
Earlier this week, Theodore Ross wrote about the Manhattan eruv and a revision for his paperback. 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 information on the series, please visit: One of the strange, but nice, things that come…
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Historic Photo Archive Finds Home in Toronto
The Black Star Collection’s journey to Toronto hasn’t quite been as dramatic as the flight of its Jewish creator, Ernest Mayer, from the Nazis. But its recent landing at Ryerson University — which acquired nearly 300,000 Black Star images with the help of an anonymous donor — caps a colorful history. Ryerson will unveil the…
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Thursday’s Shmooze Celebrity Roundup
Mazel tov to Sarah Michelle Gellar and her husband Freddie Prinze, Jr., who welcomed a baby boy in Los Angeles last week. The couple also has a 3-year-old daughter, Charlotte Grace. Ivanka Trump and her “chic family apartment” are on the cover of the October issue of Elle Décor. The cover story features picture-perfect rooms…
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New Frum Fashionista Reality Show
Tobi Rubinstein Schneier has plenty of faith to go around. The ex-wife of rabbi Marc Schneier, who was caught in a major cheating scandal, Schneier has made some major improvements in her life and career in the past two years, according to an article in the New York Post. The fashionista has a new reality…
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