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The Schmooze Jason Biggs Gets in Bed With Joan Rivers
For the last time: No, Jason Biggs is not Jewish (though he is married to Jenny Mollen, who definitely is). The “Orange is the New Black” actor stopped by “In Bed With Joan” to promote the hit show’s second season, and joan Rivers launched the interview with the elephant in the room: “I was told…
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The Schmooze ‘Magic Schoolbus’ Returns — Welcome Back Arnold!
“Bus, do your stuff!” Those words — music to any 90s child’s ears — will once again ring out. But this time, Ms. Frizzle’s voice will be coming from your Netflix account. Yes, it’s true. “The Magic Schoolbus” is getting a re-boot. Netflix and Scholastic Media have announced they will be joining forces to launch a…
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News Jewish Stripper Fleeces Wealthy Men in $200K Date-Rape Drug Scam
Four New York City strippers and a club manager have been arrested in an alleged plot to drug wealthy men and run up false charges on their credit cards, officials said on Wednesday. The scheme fleeced the victims of roughly $200,000 in less than four months, according to the New York City’s Office of the…
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The Schmooze Lea Michele’s New Boyfriend Is a $17K-a-Week Gigolo
Lea Michele is finally wiping away her tears for Cory Monteith — with some sexy massage therapy. According to TMZ, the “Glee” star has been quietly seeing one Matthew Paetz (Jewish?), also known by his Cowboys4Angels alias, Christian. The site, featured on Showtime’s “Gigolos” offers, ahem, male “companionship” to women. According to his site description, Matthew…
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Fast Forward Jewish Teenager Wearing Kippah Attacked With Taser Stun Gun in Paris
French police are looking into reports that a gang of youths tasered a Jewish teenager in central Paris. The National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, or BNVCA, said it had contacted police based on reports in French Jewish media of the alleged assault, which according to the news site Alliance.fr happened on Tuesday on Paris’…
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News Hungary Jews Unify Around Fight With Government Over Holocaust Whitewash
(JTA) — It isn’t every day that Jewish organizations reject funding for Holocaust commemorations. But that’s what happened in Hungary this spring when Jewish groups refused nearly $1 million in special state grants to protest what they see as the government’s whitewashing of Hungarian complicity in the Holocaust. “We wanted to send a very strong message…
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Fast Forward French Participation in Birthright Expected to Increase Tenfold This Year
The number of French participants in Taglit-Birthright Israel is slated to increase to 1,000 this year from approximately 100 a year ago. The Birthright organization decided to focus on France this year due to recent anti-Semitic attacks there, expanding its cooperation with local Jewish organizations and increasing its French online marketing effort. “We have decided…
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Life Why Women Are the New Gatekeepers of Modesty
Getty Images // Ultra-Orthodox women in Israel Who are the gatekeepers of the conservative religious ideal of tznius, or modesty? This question has been argued and parsed on social media and on blogs in recent years as radicalism in the ultra-Orthodox communities has taken on new and more visible forms. A common misperception is that…
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