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The Schmooze Adam Levine Dyes His Hair Blond — Jewish Girls Mourn
Adam Levine must be over being the “Sexiest Man Alive,” because this weekend, he went and did this: Yes, the first Jewish man ever to win People’s annual award has bleached his hair an N’Sync shade of blonde. The photo, which shows Levine posing with fiancee and Victoria’s Secret Model Behati Prinsloo, was posted to…
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The Schmooze Comedian Tales — It’s All in the Timing
It was all about tale telling at the Society of Illustrators’ “From the Borscht Belt to Seinfeld: The Evolution of Jewish American Comedy.” With welcoming comments by Society’s executive director Anelle Miller, panelists included Yiddish scholar and Jewish comedy maven Prof. Edward Portnoy, “comedy writer Tom Leopold (“Seinfeld,” “Cheers”), Drew Friedman, whose amazing caricature illustrations…
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News How Murder of Esther Lebowitz Changed Jewish Baltimore Forever
A lot has changed for Baltimore’s Northwest Orthodox community since 1969. For one, it’s grown from a tight colony of a few hundred families to tens of thousands of residents. It’s also drifted northward as small synagogues have sprouted up and down the community’s streets. But people still remember. The store near the corner of…
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Fast Forward U.S., Israel Reach Tax Information-Sharing Agreement to Combat Tax Dodging
Israel has become the latest country to reach a tax information-sharing agreement with the United States under a new law meant to combat offshore tax dodging by Americans, a U.S. Treasury Department spokesperson said on Thursday. Set to take effect on July 1, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act of 2010 (FATCA) will require foreign…
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Fast Forward Israel Population Grows to 8.2 Million, According to Bureau of Statistics
Israel’s population increased to nearly 8.2 million, according to figures released just ahead of Israel Independence Day, or Yom Ha’atzmaut. The population grew by 2 percent, about 157,000 people, according to the report released Thursday by the Central Bureau of Statistics. Jews make up 75 percent of the population, or 6.135 million people. Arabs are…
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The Schmooze Presidents Conference vs. J Street: ‘Mean Girls’ Edition
The dovish group J Street has lost its bid to gain admission to the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations by a suprisingly large margin of 22-17. Many were outraged, including Union for Reform Judaism leader Rick Jacobs who threatened to quit the group, which he called a “facade.” But we have Facebook to…
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The Schmooze ‘Ida’: Conversation with Director Pawel Pawlikowski
“Ida,” a fascinating and disquieting Polish language film written and directed by Pawel Pawlikowski, is a post-Soviet Polish rumination, a mystery with religious and political overtones. Pronounced as “Eeda,” Pawlikowski told me during our chat: “I needed a good name and remembered the Jewish Polish actress Ida Kaminska. It was a name I liked, but…
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Fast Forward Cardinal John O’Connor Was Actually Jewish
Cardinal John O’Connor, the late archbishop of New York, was technically Jewish, according to new research. O’Connor’s sister, Mary O’Connor Ward, recently discovered through genealogical research that her mother, Dorothy Gumple O’Connor, was born Jewish but converted to Catholicism before she met and married the O’Connors’ father. Ward told the newspaper Catholic New York that…
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