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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Piers Morgan Called Daniel Craig ‘Emasculated’ For Holding His Own Baby
British TV personality Piers Morgan mocked actor Daniel Craig for carrying his infant child in a baby carrier against his chest on Monday on Twitter. And we know, we know, you don’t come to the Forward’s pop culture page for this dreck! You come for serious pieces about jobs held by Jews in the Pale…
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Marilyn Monroe’s Annotated Jewish Prayer Book Expected To Fetch A Fortune At Auction
A bright white prayer book, published in 1922 and owned by American bombshell Marilyn Monroe, will be sold at auction on November 12. Jonathan Greenstein, of the auction house J. Greenstein & Company, says he’s sold Sammy Davis Jr.’s menorah and Alan Dershowitz’s judaica, “But nothing like this — Marilyn Monroe’s personal siddur.” Hubba hubba….
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The Fallout From Pete And Ariana’s Engagement: One Gets The Ring, One Gets The Pig
Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson are kaput in case you haven’t heard (and if you haven’t, you’ve clearly been stripped of your wifi because this revelation has been absolutely plastered across the web) and she is over it. All good things must end…is kind of a crazy generalization. All insane, spur-of-the-moment, clearly bolstered by internal…
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The Bagel Emoji Was Bad. Apple Heard Your Complaints Loud And Schmear.
Power to the people. Sing it across the nation: faced with public hysteria, Apple has fixed the bagel emoji. Baruch Hashem. When the Unicode Consortium, the enigmatic organization of engineers that universalizes emojis, first debuted plans for the bagel emoji in February, the American public burst spontaneously into uproar — not least of all those…
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Meet The 93-Year-Old Israeli Just Crowned ‘Miss Holocaust Survivor’
Truth is often stranger than fiction in Israel, a land flowing not with milk and honey but startups and bagged chocolate milk, where Gal Gadot can win a beauty pageant and so can 93-year-old great-grandmother Tova Ringer. Ringer was crowned this year’s “Miss Holocaust Survivor” on Sunday at the annual competition at the Haifa Convention…
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Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson Broke Up (Sob! Sob!)
The love that made one thousand men say, “Hey! Maybe I don’t have to try so hard!” may be over. Pop mega-star Ariana Grande and Saturday Night Live comic Pete Davidson have broken up, TMZ reports. People has also reported the news, quoting an anonymous source who says, “It was too much too soon.” (For…
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A Hologram Of Amy Winehouse Will Headline A World Tour
Amy Winehouse, the beloved British-Jewish R&B performer, died in 2011. In 2019, she’ll go on a world tour. As a hologram. Now how is it that a woman who couldn’t even get it together to convince Valerie to come on over found the means to walk back death, reanimate, and hatch a plan to travel…
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Stephen Miller’s 3rd Grade Teacher Suspended After Revealing He Ate Glue, Was A ‘Loner’
Many of President Trump’s White House appointees have had their names plastered across headlines throughout his presidency. Some for tawdry personal affairs, others for misbehavior in the workforce. Their appearances have been scrutinized and their actions inspected. But with Stephen Miller, things tend to get really personal — his family started the job, and now…
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Israeli Court Demands Two New Zealand Activists Pay $18K For Urging Boycott Of Lorde Concert
Picture this: You’re going on a date tomorrow with a wonderful-seeming man. A friend of a friend calls you — she heard about your date plans and she wants to warn you that she went on a date with the man, and when she didn’t go home with him he called her a whore. You’ve…
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This Deaf Jewish-Asian Transgender Model Just Made History
Chella Man is the first deaf Jewish-Asian model to sign with IMG — one of the most prominent modeling agencies in the world. The agency, which is known for an inclusive work environment, boasts a rolodex of models including Bella Hadid, Hailey Baldwin, Ashley Graham and other industry giants. “There is an extreme lack of…
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Ben Gurion University Researchers Discover Harmful Effects of Artificial Sweeteners
The craze for artificial sweeteners may come crashing down like a kid after a sugar high. A new study published in Molecules by Ben-Gurion University Researchers and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore claims that artificial sweeteners have a toxic effect on gut microbes (the bacteria that ensure proper digestion in your gut.) The sweeteners were…
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