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Opinion News Quiz: Putin Plays and Camp Clears Out
This week we race from Russia to Japan to D.C., New York and Israel. If this were an actual trip, it would cost you thousands of dollars. But, it’s not. It’s a quiz. Take it after the jump.
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The Schmooze James Franco Needs You!
Move over, Zach Braff! James Franco has launched an IndieGoGo campaign to rustle up funds for his latest project: a film trilogy based on “Palo Alto Stories,” his 2011 fiction-writing debut. The 35-year-old jack-of-all-trades will not be directing the films himself, Mashable reported, opting instead to recruit three of his “favorite directors at [New York…
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The Schmooze Marc Mezvinsky’s Apartment For Sale
If you can’t keep up with the Clintons, you can at least try and live like them. Marc Mezvinsky, Chelsea Clinton’s banker hubby, is unloading his $4.5 million apartment at the Grand Madison, a 12-story, 191-unit building at 225 Fifth Avenue, the Real Deal reported. Mezvinsky, 35, had reportedly purchased the three-bedroom, 2 1/2 -bath…
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Fast Forward Barbra Streisand Is Butt of Anti-Semitic Joke
Holland’s deputy premier has condemned an anti-Semitic comment made on Dutch television by a local singer about a concert by Barbra Streisand. Singer Cornelis Willem Heuckeroth, better known as Gordon, said on the air last week that Streisand, a famous Jewish-American actress and singer, had come to the Netherlands to perform on June 6 because…
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News Debbie Stoller Talks About What Makes Bust a Hit
Debbie Stoller, 49, always had lofty aspirations for Bust, the genre-smashing, stereotype-shattering magazine she and Laurie Henzel launched in 1993. “Even though it just started as a [photocopied], stapled-together thing, we always thought it would take its place on the newsstand, next to all the other women’s magazines,” Stoller said. “We hoped it would provide…
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News Are Jewish Non-Profits Targeted by IRS Over Ties to Israel?
As the Internal Revenue Service reels from revelations that it targeted Tea Party groups’ tax-exempt applications for extra scrutiny, Jewish groups from the left and right are seeking to draw attention to a less noticed reality they say they face: Groups with ties to Israel seem to be drawing extra IRS scrutiny, too. Several Jewish…
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Fast Forward Michael Applebaum, First Jewish Mayor of Montreal, Resigns Under Fire
Michael Applebaum, the first Jewish mayor of Montreal, resigned on Tuesday, a day after he was charged with fraud and corruption in the latest major Canadian municipal scandal. “I am going to put my energies into my defense and into my family,” said Applebaum, who had promised to clean up Canada’s second-largest city when he…
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The Schmooze Why Drake Isn’t Having Sex
Poor Drake. Apparently, the Canadian rapper is so wrapped up in his creative process that he doesn’t have time for sex. Or at least that’s what he recently told GQ in their July 2013 issue. “You know the way fighters don’t f–k before the fight? Sometimes I feel like I’m so focused on training my…
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