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The Schmooze Mandy Patinkin, Lena Dunham Get Emmy Nods
The Emmy nominations are here! The tribe cleaned out this year with Mandy Patinkin (“Homeland”), Nathan Lane (“The Good Wife”), Lena Dunham (“Girls”), Mayim Bialik (“Big Bang Theory”) and Julia Louis-Dreyfus (“Veep”) — to name but a few — up for awards in various categories. Check out the full list below/[via Vulture] OUTSTANDING DRAMA Breaking…
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News Mothers of Down Syndrome Babies Have Options in Ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem
When Shmuel, my sixth child, arrived with Down syndrome, I cried bitterly as I imagined myself dead and him homeless; I played hostess to numerous other fantasies, my own and those of other women, who came to cry by my childbed. But when I returned to life and found my husband distressed and exhausted, I…
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The Schmooze Bar Refaeli Pulls a Katy Perry
You’re welcome. In case you were wondering (on the off chance your brain still works after seeing this picture), the woman kissing Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli is Orna Elovitch, TMZ reports. The caption reads: “B & O standing on the grass and k.i.s.s.i.n.g”
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Fast Forward Righteous Pole’s Maccabiah Reunion With Rescued Jew
Many of the athletes flying into Israel this week to participate in the 19th Maccabiah Games would say this is the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. But for one 86-year-old Polish-Catholic woman who will be among the crowd of tens of thousands attending the opening ceremony at Teddy Stadium on Thursday evening, it marks the…
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The Schmooze Madonna’s Son Rocco Bar-Mitvahed
Can you picture Madonna and Guy Ritchie dancing the hora? This is what one can only hope happened after their son Rocco was bar-mitzvahed on July 13 at the Kabbalah Center in New York. Madonna celebrated her boy’s transition to manhood by posting a picture on Instagram. “We finish the last letter of the Torah…
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Fast Forward Landlord’s ‘No Mezuzah’ Rule Sparks Lawsuit
An Orthodox Jewish man from suburban New York City sued his landlord for demanding that he remove the mezuzah from his apartment’s doorpost. Arye Sachs of North Babylon on Long Island filed a lawsuit this week in Brooklyn federal court, the New York Post reported. In the lawsuit, Sachs said his landlord ordered him to…
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The Schmooze Gail Simmons Pregnant With First Child
Gail Simmons has one in the oven — and no, it’s not a batch of cookies. “Top Chef” judge Gail Simmons is expecting her first child with husband Jeremy Abrams. The baby is due this winter, Simmons’ rep confirmed to People Magazine. Simmons married Abrams, head of the music programming company Audiostiles in 2008. Their Long…
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Life Tisha B’Av, Take One
If you’ve been raised by Orthodox parents, attended only Orthodox schools and camps, and spent two years in Israel studying Jewish topics, it can be a bit embarrassing to realize that after 24 years, you have to check Chabad.org to remember all the rules of Tisha B’Av. But until now, I didn’t need to remember…
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