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The Schmooze Katy Perry Visits Auschwitz
Katy Perry took a break from the European leg of her “Prismatic World Tour” to visit Auschwitz on Wednesday. The pop star posted shared a picture of the concentration camp with her 15 million Instagram followers with the following caption: “My heart was heavy today. For ever let this place be a cry of despair…
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Opinion You Want To Give Every European Jew a Gun — Really?
Getty Images In an article originally titled “Why Every Jewish Man, Woman, and Child in Europe Should Get a Gun,” Liel Leibovitz claims that European Jews need guns because they can’t trust their governments to protect them from anti-Semitic “savages.” Leibovitz chides those trusting in “reasonable measures,” arguing instead that, “European Jews with guns can…
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The Schmooze Monica Lewinsky’s Life Has Been Turned Into a Mini-Series
Remember when Monica Lewinsky tried to put that whole Bill Clinton scandal behind her by moving to Manhattan and starting her own handbag line? Well, now the whole saga has been immortalized in a new 6-part DIY mini-series, the Fader reports. The series, directed by Doron Max Hagay, seems loosely based on New York Magazine’s…
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The Schmooze Marisa Tomei Will Play Gloria Steinem in New HBO Series
Oscar winner Marisa Tomei will be playing Gloria Steinem in a new HBO-series produced by George Clooney. (Yes, that’s a lot of big names. Take a minute to process.) The project, which will also star Kathy Najimy, will reportedly be set in 1971, during the early days of Ms. Magazine. The story will be told…
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Books Why Ayelet Tsabari’s Sami Rohr Win Is a Victory for Arab Jews
Sami Rohr Prize winner Ayelet Tsabari / Elsin Davidi Ayelet Tsabari, author of the short story collection “The Best Place On Earth” (HarperCollins 2013), has won the prestigious Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature — and I couldn’t be happier about it. A couple of months ago, I issued one of those pre-New-Year’s calls for…
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Opinion Changing My Mind On Same-Sex Ceremonies
Josh and Mark on the day of their commitment ceremony / Danielle Perelman On a recent Sunday night, I did something that in the past I never thought I would do. Nine years ago, I voted “no” on the most well-known Conservative Movement responsum on homosexuality, the Dorff-Nevins-Reisner teshuvah on “Homosexuality, Human Dignity and Halakhah.”…
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Life Combining Forces to Battle Breast Cancer
Illustration by Lior Zaltzman Dozens of Torontonians have gathered to nosh on latkes and blintzes at a downtown café’s weekly Yiddish cabaret. Tables are squeezed close together, and as the performance winds down, my college roommate and I start chatting with our neighbors. The two women and their pre-teen daughters are out celebrating the girls’…
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Fast Forward Ukrainian Jewish Soldier Buried in Kiev — One Month Later
A Ukrainian Jewish soldier who died last month amid Russian-backed separatist fighting was buried in Kiev. Yevgeni Yatsina, who was almost 26, was brought to burial in the capital on Friday following the discovery of his body, which was covered by debris since he died in an explosion last month in the country’s east, the…
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