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The Schmooze Israeli Businesswoman Funds Endowed Professorship at GMU
George Mason University has announced that a new endowed professorship has been created thanks to a substantial donation by American-Israeli businesswoman Shari Arison. The recipient of the Arison Group Endowed Professor of Doing Good Values will work under the purview of George Mason’s New Century College and “will be dedicated to research and education that…
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Opinion News Quiz: Eliot Spitzer’s Return, Edward Snowden
This week’s news quiz deals with obsessions political, sexual and Jewish. (You were expecting, maybe, Irish?) Plus, more anti-Semitism than you can shake a stick at — so don’t even bother looking for a stick.
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The Schmooze Joan Rivers vs. Writers Guild of America
“Fashion Police” guru Joan Rivers is in hot water with the Writers Guild of America. The Council of the Writers Guild of America East voted to send charges filed against Rivers to a trial board Wednesday, raising the stakes in the ongoing strike of “Fashion Police” writers, Variety reported. “The writers on that show are…
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Fast Forward Historic Jewish Cemetery Uncovered in Vienna
Jewish gravestones unearthed at a small cemetery in Vienna were hailed on Wednesday as historically important cultural treasures that could rival the famed Jewish cemetery in Prague. Restoration work at the 16th century Seegasse cemetery has discovered 20 gravestones that are centuries old and were buried by Viennese Jews in 1943 to hide them from…
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The Schmooze James Franco To Be Roasted on Comedy Central
James Franco has announced (via Instagram video of course) that he will be the next celebrity to be roasted on Comedy Central. Hey yo, what’s up? I’m gonna get roasted on Comedy Central, be sure to check it out — they wanted me to tell you that,” he told his followers on Tuesday night, in…
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The Schmooze Justin Bieber Pees in Public
I think it’s fair to say that you can officially be labeled a child star brat once you casually drop your pants in a restaurant kitchen and urinate into a mop bucket on your way out of a club. Who would do such a thing, you might ask? The answer, unsurprisingly, is Justin Bieber. According…
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Opinion Ramadan Arrives — With Unique Challenge for Israel
Ramadan has just started, and an estimated 1 million Muslims from the West Bank will enter Israel to spend part of the holiday with relations here. The defense establishment has become more confident about giving access to Israel for Arab holidays — and for the main part things have been smooth. The opening of the…
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News Leonard Matanky, Chicago Rabbi, Named to Head RCA
The leading Modern Orthodox rabbinical association selected Rabbi Leonard Matanky, a longtime insider, as its new president at a recent convention. Matanky, who leads an Orthodox synagogue and a Jewish day school in Chicago, will replace Rabbi Shmuel Goldin as president of the Rabbinical Council of America. Matanky previously served as vice-president under Goldin. “We…
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