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The Schmooze Who Is Irena Sendler, The Catholic Holocaust Hero Who Gal Gadot Will Play In Upcoming Biopic?
When Germany invaded Warsaw in 1939, Irena Sendler was just a 29-year-old Polish social worker. By the end of the war, she had saved untold thousands of Jews. Even a death sentence and imprisonment did not stop Irena Sendler from saving Jewish children. That’s a true wonder woman. Gal Gadot, who dazzled the world as…
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The Schmooze ‘JoJo Rabbit,’ A Holocaust Comedy, Is Good For The Jews
German 10-year-old JoJo Betzler is a young boy with a simple dream: hunt Jews, make friends, get girls, blow stuff up. It’s the twilight of World War II and, from JoJo’s perspective, things are going most spiffingly. He lives in a tiny German town with buildings that look like iced buns, and spends his days…
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The Schmooze Disney’s First Jewish Princess Debuts In Time For Hanukkah
This Hanukkah season, the Disney universe will finally gain a princess who’s a member of the Tribe. While Sarah Silverman sparked some hope and a lot of confusion last year by claiming her character in “Wreck-It Ralph” as the first Jewish princess, Disney has never included an officially kosher character. (We love Sarah, but a…
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Culture Kubrick’s Personal ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ Script To Be Displayed At Museum Of The Jewish People
July 16, 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch. While most accept the arrival of the shuttle on the lunar surface four days later as a watershed moment in space exploration, a few cranks hold to the idea that the landing was staged and filmed by director Stanley Kubrick. This theory has…
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The Schmooze Woody Allen’s Long-Shelved Movie To Be Released Overseas
Woody Allen’s “A Rainy Day In New York,” shelved by Amazon Studios, will have a European audience. Allen’s latest will be released in Europe this October, Variety reported. The movie, which was completed in 2018, will reach Italian audiences and will likely later be distributed in France, Belgium and the Netherlands, thanks to pre-existing distribution…
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The Schmooze Next Up For Spike Lee: A Biopic About KKK-Heir Turned Civil Rights Activist
It was in October of 1961, in McComb, Mississippi, when members of a racist mob descended on 22-year-old Bob Zellner and tried to pull out his eyeballs. Zellner is not a Jew, despite what his name might suggest. And though his activism in the American civil rights movement was legendary, Zellner is a white Alabaman…
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The Schmooze An Erotic Keira Knightley Movie About Post-WWII Germany? Uh Oh.
If two people are hot and white enough, can we get past the fact that one of them is a Nazi-bystander and just enjoy watching them have sex? Yes! A trailer for the movie “The Aftermath” emphatically answers. Based on the book of the same title by Rhidian Brook, “The Aftermath” follows the true story…
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Books Ottessa Moshfegh Fangirled Out At Whoopi Goldberg’s House
Author Ottessa Moshfegh has defied the old warning, “never meet your heroes.” She wasn’t disappointed. Those who’ve read Moshfegh’s second novel, 2018’s “My Year of Rest and Relaxation,” won’t have much trouble guessing who that hero is. Like her book’s unnamed protagonist, who spends a year fettered to her bed self-prescribing medication and binging films…
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