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It’s Official, Prairie Dresses Are In: Batsheva Hay Presents At New York Fashion Week
It was a dreary Wednesday afternoon when the sky, seemingly tired of simply teasing bad weather, opened up to a Biblical-level deluge. But inside the Square diner, attendees at the Batsheva Spring Summer 2019 Presentation (designed by Jewish vintage connoisseur Batsheva Hay) stayed dry and warm as they were transported to an idyllic 1950s-era scene….
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The Yom Kippur Fasting Experience, As Told Through GIFs
Yom Kippur begins just before sundown this Tuesday, September 18, and ends after sundown on Wednesday, September 19. In the course of the day you may pray. You may sing. You may prostrate. You may book end the experience on one side by swinging a chicken, and on the other by immediately and enthusiastically building…
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Yom Kippur Services In New York City: The Forward’s Picks
All year long, we wait for the Day of Atonement to seek forgiveness for acting on our sinful inclinations. This year, we will be better. This year, we will shed our skin of all the times we laughed too hard at Sacha Baron Cohen’s jokes. We will finally vote in midterm elections. We might even…
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Amy Schumer Flip-Flops Back To Nixon, Two Days After Endorsing Cuomo
We spend a lot of time here on the Schmooze pointing out male failure, so we figure it’s okay for us to take a moment to say that female celebrity activists need to clean up their acts right now. In the past 48 hours, Susan Sarandon essentially celebrated Donald Trump for inspiring diverse participation in…
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Netflix’s ‘Sierra Burgess’ Is A Backwards Take On Feminism With No Concept of Consent
“Sierra Burgess is a Loser” is the type of movie that fills us with a longing for simpler times when we weren’t condemned to follow a clichéd underdog of a protagonist as she embarks on an emotional awakening that leads her to discover herself, fall in love, and skip into the sunset. “Jaws,” where you…
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Ann Coulter Dreamily Imagines Trump Killing Jared Kushner In New Book
In her new gleefully-titled tome, “Resistance Is Futile! How the Trump-Hating Left Lost Its Collective Mind,” Ann Coulter salivates over a fantasy in which President Trump murders his son-in-law and advisor Jared Kushner. Ann Coulter is the mucus-coating on the scum clinging to the bottom of the refuse pile of cultural commentators and we hate…
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Tel Aviv, And Not Jerusalem, Is Officially Hosting The 2019 Eurovision Song Contest
Tel Aviv will host the 2019 Eurovision song contest, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which organizes the annual event, announced Thursday. EBU and Israel’s national broadcaster Kan selected Tel Aviv, considered the business and cultural capital of Israel, after the city agreed to bear the venue costs for the competition’s three-night event—two semi-finals and the…
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10 New York Fashion Week Looks That Prove Modest Clothing Continues To Be On The Rise
As long as designers create whimsical couture gowns and politically inspired graphic tees, there will always be a place on the runway carved out for conservative women. Season after season our eyes remain glued to the catwalk, awaiting a fresh batch of orthodox-like ensembles to wear. We will never tire of the way mainstream and…
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Kim Kardashian West Just Signed To Be The Face Of Israeli Eyewear Company – Alongside Bar Rafaeli
Kim Kardashian West will get a 10% stake in the U.S. branch of Israeli fashion eyewear company Carolina Lemke Ltd. as part of a deal that will make her the company’s new brand ambassador. The agreement, which has been in the making for several months, was announced in a filing with the Tel Aviv Stock…
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Lena Dunham Apologizes For…Accidentally Creating ‘Fat Isn’t Beautiful’ Sweatshirts
32-year-old auteur Lena Dunham is one of the most flexible people in the world — her foot is almost always in her mouth. On Wednesday, Dunham lived up to the name of the Twitter parody account “Lena Dunham Apologizes,” apologizing for collaborating on a fashion line that includes sweatshirts boasting slogans like, “Being fat is…
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Debra Messing Trashes Susan Sarandon For ‘Your Part’ In Trump Election
Women: So catty! Say, why don’t you break it up already, ladies! The gentler sex has their claws out once again in a (checks notes) classic battle between one woman’s progressive politics and another’s radical leftist agenda. It’s a girl-on-girl clash of (checks notes again) an outspoken left-wing activist-actress versus an explosive Bernie-or-Bust Hollywood icon….
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