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The Schmooze Lena Dunham Will Dress as Planned Parenthood Doctor for Halloween
Lena Dunham just won Halloween. In the age of costumes, a woman during Halloween finds herself looking at paltry options full of “sexy” this and “sexy” that costumes. So when Lena Dunham reminisced about her past costumes and announced that she plans to dress up as a Planned Parenthood doctor in Tuesday’s Lenny Letter, the…
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The Schmooze When Bernie Sanders Turned Table on Larry David
Bernie Sanders thinks Larry David’s impersonation of him on SNL this week was pretty, pretty good. The Vermont Senator took a brief pause from discussing campaign finance and college tuition on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night, to pay homage to Larry David’s classic Curb Your Enthusiasm . And he completely nailed it.
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Fast Forward The Bernie Sanders That Only Jewish Vermont Knows
(JTA) — Bernie Sanders reads from the Passover Haggadah in Hebrew and jokes with his seder hosts about finding hametz, traces of leavening, after they have thoroughly cleaned the house in preparation for the holiday. The presidential candidate, a socialist competing for the Democratic nomination, also follows Israeli politics close enough to understand the influence…
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The Schmooze These Folks Have the Best Bernie Sanders Impressions
We all loved Larry David’s spot-on impression of Bernie Sanders on SNL last Saturday. But 300 miles away from SNL headquarters, Bernie Sanders impressions are anything but news. In Burlington, Vermont, where the senator served three terms as mayor, residents have had years, even decades of practice. And boy, are they good. Just watch this…
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The Schmooze Larry David Nails Bernie Sanders Impression on ‘SNL’
(JTA) — “What’s the deal with emails, anyway?” Sounds like a line on a “Seinfeld” episode (or Modern Seinfeld, anyway). But last night we heard it on the “Saturday Night Live” spoof of the first Democratic debate. The speaker was Bernie Sanders’ doppelganger, “Seinfeld” creator Larry David. David is a Jewish curmudgeon who also plays…
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Opinion Why Was Israel Missing From the Democratic Debate?
They discussed gun control and ground troops; college debt, climate change and capitalism; what to do about Syria and how to counter Vladimir Putin. They treated the nation — those who were watching, anyhow — to a quick course in the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933. For two and a half hours on October 13, the…
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Fast Forward Democrats Mostly Get Along in First Debate — But Mideast Differences Loom
The first Democratic presidential debate focused mostly on economic issues, although foreign policy differences emerged on how to handle the crisis in the Middle East. The debate Tuesday night in Las Vegas brought together the five candidates running for the Democratic nod for the presidency. Making his first appearance on a national debate stage was…
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News Bernie Sanders Opens Up About Jewish Upbringing — at Last
(JTA) — I interviewed Bernie Sanders a couple years ago, when word first circulated that the Vermont senator might seek the presidency. Though he knew about JTA going in — and must have known questions about his Jewish background were coming — he didn’t want to get into it. I wrote at the time: “But…
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