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The Schmooze Israeli Actress Odeya Rush to Star in ‘Goosebumps’
Move over, Gal Gadot. There’s a new Israeli taking Hollywood by storm — and she’s only 16. Teenage actress Odeya Rush, who just wrapped filming for her role in “The Giver” alongside Meryl Streep and Jeff Bridges, has reportedly landed the female lead in “Goosebumps.” The movie, which also stars Jack Black, is an adaptation…
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The Schmooze Joan Rivers Makes Her ‘Tonight Show’ Comeback
(JTA) — Monday Night marked Jimmy Fallon’s debut as host of “The Tonight Show.” It was also the first time Joan Rivers, among the parade of stars who took the stage to settle a $100 debt, appeared on the show in over 25 years. Even more monumental: It was the 49th anniversary of her first-ever “Tonight…
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Life Why My Son Underwent Metzitzah B’Peh
The controversial and potentially life-threatening practice of metzitzah b’peh, the oral suctioning of a baby’s circumcision wound by the mohel, is back in the news. As the controversy continues to brew in the secular media, and as Bill de Blasio takes his time coming up with an approach that is “much more effective at protecting…
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Fast Forward Hungary Rabbi Unearths 103 Torahs in Russia
A Hungarian rabbi said on Tuesday he had uncovered 103 Torah scrolls stolen from Hungarian Jews during World War Two and stashed in a Russian library, adding he planned to restore and return them to the Jewish community. Slomo Koves, chief rabbi of the Unified Hungarian Jewish Congregation, said he had found the scrolls while…
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Opinion Single, Non-Jewish, and Eager To Convert
Kelly was one of those non-Jewish girls I’d always envied — the ones who seemed to know where every cool party was and dressed with an urban flair. So it took me by surprise when, one day last year, she excitedly told me that she was converting to Judaism. I knew she loved “Jewy” things….
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Fast Forward Sheryl Sandberg Trumpets Jewish Identity at BBYO
Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, described how the Jewish youth movement BBYO helped to shape her. Sandberg, also the author of the best-seller “Lean In” on empowering women in the workplace, spoke in a video message to the annual BBYO conference in Dallas over the weekend. She said her experience in the organization…
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Opinion A Woman Is More Than a Wedding Night
Racheli Ibenboim chats with writer Tuvia Tenenbom./Photo by Isi Tenenbaum I may not be a dyed-in-the-wool feminist by any stretch of the imagination. But I have a strong sense of the rights of women to take agency in their own lives and a repulsion for the oppressive nature of men who harass women for their…
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News Conference of Presidents Gets Red Carpet Treatment From Spain — But Why?
(JTA) The 40 leaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations must have thought they had been mistaken for heads of states or soccer stars when they jetted into Madrid the other day. The visitors were treated like high-level diplomats, complete with round-the-clock police protection and motorcade escorts wherever they travelled. For…
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