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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Stewart Takes on Sanchez on ‘The Daily Show’
Watch Jon Stewart’s “Daily Show” response to former CNN anchor Rick Sanchez’s assertion that Stewart is a bigot: here.
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Fiddler in the Rough, Part Four: Exit the Queen
Daniel F. Levin is a playwright, composer and lyricist living in Brooklyn. His newest play, “Hee-Haw: It’s a Wonderful Li_e,” was called a “delightful surprise” by the New York Times; his musical, “To Paint the Earth,” about resistance fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto, won the Richard Rogers Development Award. This is the last in a…
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Tel Aviv Port Wins Barcelona Architecture Prize
Crossposted from Haaretz The renovation of the Tel Aviv Port has earned the two architects who designed the public spaces there the award for outstanding landscape architecture in Europe at the Euorpean Biennial for Landscape Architecture, in Barcelona. The recognition, given in spite of the fact that Israel is not technically part of the continent,…
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Bringing Slavic Soul to Rikers Island
As their name implies, Slavic Soul Party! updates traditional Eastern European sounds with a festive, contemporary feel. Their instrumental music conjures carnivals and circuses, pep bands and klezmer bands, James Brown and James Bond. Brooklyn music aficionados may know Slavic Soul Party! from their weekly Tuesday gigs at Barbès; uptowners may have caught them at…
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Berlusconi’s Jewish Joke Draws Rebuke From Vatican
Crossposted from Haaretz The Vatican journal and the Italian bishops’ daily newsletter yesterday condemned a “Jewish joke” told by Italian Prime Minister Sylvio Berlusconi on his birthday last week. Berlusconi, who turned 74, jocularly told well wishers a joke about about a Jew that charged another Jew 3,000 euros a day to hide him during…
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Rahm Emanuel’s Parting Gift From the White House: A Dead Fish
Crossposted from Haaretz Rahm Emanuel, who resigned as the White House chief of staff on Friday in order to run for mayor of Chicago, received an unusual parting gift. During a staff meeting in the White House’s Roosevelt Room on Friday morning, Council of Economic Advisers chair Austan Goolsbee handed Emanuel a dead Asian carp…
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Slideshow: Leonard Nimoy’s ‘Secret Selves’
If you had a lost or hidden other half, who would it be? A rocker? A mad scientist? Someone sluttier or cooler than yourself? Fantasy comes to life in Leonard Nimoy’s “Secret Selves,” a collection of 26 moving, often provocative photographs on display at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art through January 2, 2011. Nimoy,…
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Seeing the Big Picture at the Haifa International Film Festival
Crossposted from Haaretz A look back at a film fest featuring debuts, adaptations and less-than-noteworthy efforts. Still the event was an affirmation of what Israeli cinema can achieve. Prizes were awarded to five of the seven Israeli feature films competing in the 26th Haifa International Film Festival, which ended Saturday night. Of the three best,…
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Out and About: Tel Aviv Dance, Jason Alexander at UCLA
Meet Avi Yitzhak, Israel’s first Ethiopian fashion designer. Jewish Fiction .net, “the first English-language journal devoted exclusively to the publishing of Jewish fiction,” has launched. Roberto Rodriguez and Abraham Inc. are among several Jewish-y acts included in the Village Voice’s Jazz Consumer Guide. The fourth annual Tel Aviv Dance festival opens today, bringing 12 international…
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This Week in Forward Arts and Culture
Gavriel Rosenfeld notes the textual inspiration for the new synagogue in Mainz. Nathan Burstein takes a look at “Nuremberg,” a documentary finally getting its American premiere after 62 years. Susie Linfield goes to see the current performance by Israel’s Batsheva dance company. In Eli Valley’s latest comic, the Jewish community finds salvation in an unlikely…
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Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters Rebuffs ADL’s Anti-Semitism Accusations
Like the song on Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” says, “the show must go on.” That’s the word from ex-Pink Floyd honcho Roger Waters, who has forcefully rebuffed accusations his new solo stage show includes anti-Semitic imagery. As the Shmooze reported this week, the Anti-Defamation League lashed out at Waters for an animated stage sequence where…
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