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The Schmooze Donald Trump’s Jewish Doctor Has Out-Trumped Him
Breaking news: There exists a man on this planet who speaks in more convoluted prose than Donald Trump. His name is , MD. Bornstein, who has been Trump’s personal physician since 1980, gave the Republican U.S. presidential candidate a clean bill of health in a letter released by the Trump campaign on Monday. “I am…
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News Jews With Asian Heritage Pose Growing Identity Challenge to Jewish Establishment
Since their wedding in May 2012, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have become the unofficial representatives of Jewish- and Asian-American couples in the United States. Earlier this month they were prominently featured around the world hugging their firstborn daughter Max. Previous stories revolved around Hannukah celebrations at the couple’s home and…
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The Schmooze Ben Smith Gives Buzzfeed the OK to Call Donald Trump a Racist
Buzzfeed editor-in-chief has spoken: calling Donald Trump a racist is no longer a breach of journalistic integrity. In a memo sent out on Tuesday, Smith told his staff that they are henceforth permitted to refer to Donald Trump as racist — as fact, rather than opinion — on social media. According to Politico, the memo was…
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The Schmooze James Deen Breaks Silence — Denies Rape Claims
James Deen has finally spoken up against the sexual assault allegations piling up against him. In an with the Daily Beast’s Aurora Snow — herself a former adult film star — the man once billed as the “nice Jewish boy” of porn denied that he sexually assaulted any of the women who have publicly accused him….
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The Schmooze Amy Schumer’s Childhood Video Wins Hanukkah
Move over, . The search for the ultimate Hanukkah video is over — Amy Schumer wins hands down. The Jewish comedian shared a childhood video of her singing “Happy Hanukkah” on her Instagram page and if you haven’t seen it, you need to stop whatever non-essential task you’re doing. In addition to being ADORABLE, Schumer…
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News Jews Are Still the Biggest Target of Religious Hate Crimes
When it comes to religious hate crimes, Jews and Jewish institutions were the biggest targets in America again last year, hands down. But when it comes to hate crimes overall, the single biggest motivation by far was not religion at all; it was race—a situation that has prevailed for years. Those are two of the…
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Opinion Stop Asking If James Deen Was a Feminist — Ask If He’s Guilty
It’s been only a few days since James Deen — a man formerly referred to as a variation of the boy-next-door, nice-Jewish-boy, and even “feminist hero” of pornography — was accused of sexually assaulting several women, including his ex-girlfriend. The Internet can’t seem to get enough of Deen, even (especially?) when he has been accused…
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Culture ‘Transparent’ Is Back — and It’s as Good (and Jewish) as Ever
When we last left “Transparent’”s Pfefferman clan, they were scavenging the leftovers – chopped liver, coleslaw and maybe some whitefish salad– after a shiva. Now, at the start of the show’s second season — the first episode of which aired early on Amazon this week — we rejoin them at a wedding. The two events,…
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Opinion Outrage over Nicholas Kristof’s op-ed on sexual assault of Palestinians is missing the point
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News They texted about Torah and mitzvahs. Feds say they were insider trading
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Opinion I run The Jewish Theological Seminary. Here’s the real story about President Isaac Herzog speaking at our commencement
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Yiddish ייִדן פֿלעגן באַשווערן רוחות און שלאַנגען אויף ווײַסרוסישJews used to conjure spirits and snakes in Belarusian
בײַ ייִדן איז פֿאַראַן אַן אַלטע טראַדיציע צו שרײַבן רײַסישע סגולות מיט ייִדישע אותיות.
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Fast Forward Anti-Israel Republican Thomas Massie ousted from Congress as Trump endorsee wins primary
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Fast Forward Jewish groups rally behind bipartisan Senate antisemitism bill with $1B security allocation
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Fast Forward With AOC backing and anti-Israel message, Chris Rabb vies for open House seat in Philadelphia