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The Schmooze Lighting Up With Seth Rogen: Jewish Edition
(JTA) — We just can’t stop talking about Seth Rogen lately! Sorry if you’ve had enough, but this clip from Bravo’s “Watch What Happens Live” is just too Jew-packed to resist. Last night the show’s host Andy Cohen got Rogen to play a round of “Spill the Herbal Tea,” in which the writer, actor and Alzheimer’s…
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Life Israeli Beauty Queen Fights for Women
Israeli beauty queen Doron Matalon is a firm believer that good things can come from bad experiences. As a soldier in December 2011, she was sexually harassed by an ultra-Orthodox man on a Jerusalem bus. Now, as the first runner-up in the recent 64th Miss Israel pageant, she plans to use her newfound fame to…
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Life Throwback Thursday: Queen Esther in New York City
Welcome to Throwback Thursday, a weekly photo feature in which we sift 116 years of Forward history to find snapshots of women’s lives. Sonia Kanciper, a 22-year-old member of the Farband, the Labor Zionist organization and a post-graduate student at Hunter College, was chosen New York’s Queen Esther of 1952 in a beauty contest of…
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The Schmooze Seinfeld Supercut Shows What A Show About Nothing Really Looks Like
Turns out, ‘Seinfeld’ was about something after all. The following supercut, by video editor LJ Frezza, shows what the beloved sitcom would have been like in a New York sans people, soup Nazis, anti-Dentites, marble rye, men in capes, sombreros and Kramer. And what a sad, sad world it would be. [h/t Gothamist]
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The Schmooze Is Roseanne Barr Making Aliyah to Israel?
(JTA) — Comedian Roseanne Barr revealed via Twitter on Wednesday she is interested in making aliyah. Here’s what went down: Barr, who currently lives on a macadamia nut farm in Hawaii with her fourth non-Jewish husband, responded to a Times of Israel story about the aliyah organization Nefesh B’Nefesh with this tweet. aliyah 2014 — Roseanne…
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Life 50 Is Not the New 40
Photo credit Jeannie Cole There was a brief moment there, must of been my early 20s, when I thought that women of a certain age were not subject to the same contradictory demands and humiliations as younger women. I believed that we all would eventually reach a point when projecting the right image on the…
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Fast Forward Ukraine Jewish Leaders Blast Israel for Soft Line on Crimea
A Ukrainian Jewish leader opposed to the Russian takeover of Crimea failed to drum up support this week from Israel, which is sitting out the crisis pitting its U.S. ally against Moscow. Edward Dolinsky, head of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, made a lobbying trip to Jerusalem with influential Ukrainian Jewish lawmaker Alexander Feldman. They were…
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News Is Vladimir Putin’s Embrace of Jews for Real — or Political Show?
(JTA) — When even Russian policemen had to pass security checks to enter the Sochi Winter Olympics, Rabbi Berel Lazar was waved in without ever showing his ID. Lazar, a Chabad-affiliated chief rabbi of Russia, was invited to the opening ceremony of the games last month by President Vladimir Putin’s office. But since the event…
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