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The Schmooze People Magazine Crowns Gwyneth Paltrow "World’s Most Beautiful Woman"
Gwyneth Paltrow has had a busy month. After taking first place in Star Magazine’s annual “Most Hated Person In Hollywood” Top 20, the actress has been hailed as the “World’s Most Beautiful Woman” 2013 by People Magazine. Paltrow told People she was stunned by their choice. When I first heard that I was gonna be…
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News Nicholas Lemann Talks About Journalism’s Hazy Future
Throughout his 10-year tenure as dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, Nicholas Lemann fielded calls on a daily basis from people asking about the “crisis” in journalism and what he intended to do about it. It was a crisis he was all too familiar with. As dean, he navigated young journalists…
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News How Carob on Lag B’Omer Taught Jews To Be Cynical
Soon it will be Lag B’Omer, or didn’t you know? If you’re like me, you didn’t. Not a clue. After all, this is not a front-of-the-pack holiday. (“Lag” is right there in the name.) But it’s a holiday with a very cool history and one enduring quirk. Historywise, it celebrates a pause in a plague….
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News John Ruskay Announces Resignation, Steered Federation Through Fiscal Crisis
John Ruskay will resign as head of the UJA-Federation of New York in mid-2014, leaving a position he has held since 1999. UJA-Federation, which calls itself the largest Jewish philanthropic organization in the world, had revenue of $234 million in 2011. The organization said that it had raised $2.7 billion over the course of Ruskay’s…
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Fast Forward John Ruskay To Leave Top Spot at UJA-Federation
John Ruskay will be leaving his position as executive vice president and CEO of UJA-Federation of New York. The federation announced Ruskay’s departure on Tuesday. His last day as head of the nation’s largest federation will be on June 30, 2014. Ruskay joined the federation in 1993 and has been CEO since 1999. In Ruskay’s…
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The Schmooze Stars Flock to Salute Barbara Streisand
The movers and shakers of the glamorous set were out in droves Monday night to raise their glasses in a toast to Barbra Streisand, who was given the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Chaplin award at Avery Fisher Hall Monday night. Called a “true legend and hometown girl,” Streisand is the first woman to have…
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Fast Forward Morocco Jewish Museum Reopens After Renovations
The Museum of Moroccan Judaism, one of the only institutions of its kind in the Arab world, was reopened in Casablanca after months of renovations. The re-opening ceremony earlier this month was attended by Moroccan government officials, the museum’s president Jaques Toledano and Samuel Kaplan, the U.S. ambassador to Morocco and a past president of…
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Opinion Reform Jewry Grapples With Intermarriage Among Rabbinic Students
There’s a new controversy roiling the Reform movement: Can an applicant to rabbinic school be married to a non-Jewish partner? Everyone knows that many American Jews date men and women from other religious backgrounds. But rabbis? This might shock some readers — even today, when nothing shocks us anymore. But actually, the phenomenon is not…
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Fast Forward Unarmed man who tackled Bondi Beach Hanukkah attacker identified as Ahmed al-Ahmed
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