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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Admiring Blum: A Great French Jewish Statesman Celebrated on Film
For visitors to the New York Jewish Film Festival, a must-see on January 18-20 is a new hour-length documentary, “Leon Blum: For All Mankind” about the French socialist politician. Written by Blum’s grandson Antoine Malamoud and directed by University of Alabama Professor Jean Bodon, the film offers a mere sketch of an eventful life, and…
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Books National Jewish Book Award Winners Announced
The National Jewish Book Award winners were announced Wednesday and there’s good cause for excitement. From an illustrated children’s bible to a gripping young adult novel based on the voyage of the M.S. St. Louis, here are the list of winning books: Jewish Book of the Year Award “Louis D. Brandeis: A Life,” by Melvin…
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Ralph Fiennes on Playing Nazis, Holocaust Victims and Mohammed Atta
“Do you have to be handsome to play the role of a Nazi commander?” That was a question that actor Ralph Fiennes was asked during a January 9 discussion, titled “The Power of Film and the Holocaust” at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Fiennes didn’t have a clear answer. The British actor,…
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Masterworks and Kitsch: Russian Jewish Artists Ill-Served in San Diego
Discerning lovers of Jewish art have until January 17, 2010 to see the exhibit “American Artists from the Russian Empire” which opened in October at the San Diego Museum of Art. They will need to be discerning, because although the exhibit features major works of interest by Ben Shahn, Louise Nevelson and Mark Rothko, greeting–card…
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Celebrating Survival
TANENBAUM AWARD CEREMONY HONORS A MAN OF WORDS AND A MAN OF THE ARTS “I guess what I just experienced was what we now call a Nobel Prize moment,” New York Times religion columnist Peter Steinfels said as he accepted the Media Bridge-Builder Award from Blu Greenberg, founding president of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance,…
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In the Shadow of The Winter Garden
A diabolical terrorist plot had just been thwarted in London, the latest Arab-Israeli war was raging and a storm had struck the city the previous night. But to the crowd gathered at West 51st St. and Broadway in New York City on the afternoon of August 11, the presence of blue skies — nothin’ but…
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Teen Has An Eye for The Storm
Most 4 year olds want to be firemen or policemen when they grow up. But by the time Florida’s Zach Gruskin turned 4, he already had other plans: He wanted to study hurricanes. “Everything about hurricanes fascinates me,” the young hurricane hunter, now 15, told the Forward. “They are like nothing else on this planet….
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Nazi Problem Finds Jewish Solution
In 1955, Wilhelm Blaschke, a noted German mathematician, threw up his hands in the face of quandary over which he had long puzzled. He deemed the “three-web problem,” which focused on how to straighten a web’s curved lines, “hopeless.” More than half a century later, the puzzle has been solved. The twist? Blaschke was a…
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