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The Schmooze The Jewtopia Trailer Is Here!
You’ve got to respect a movie that manages to insert nearly every stereotype about Jewish relationships into a two-minute trailer. In all seriousness though, with a cast like this one, Jewtopia may be a parody worth watching. Based on the off-broadway show of same name, Jewtopia’s ensemble includes Jon Lovitz, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Phil Rosenthal,…
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The Schmooze Mom Helped Kid Paint Swastikas
When Jon Lovitz tweeted his outrage over an anti-Semitic act of vandalism in Southern California this April, his ire was directed primarily at a group of teenage girls he called bullies. Lovitz’s friends, parents of a teenage daughter, found feces left on their doorstep and swastikas and the word “Jew” painted in maple syrup in…
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The Schmooze Jon Lovitz Gets Tough On Hate Crime
We may know Jon Lovitz as a joker, but he was very serious when he tweeted about a recent anti-Semitic act perpetrated against his friend’s teenage daughter by other students from her school. It was reported that Lovitz’s posts about the incident, which took place in Northridge, California on April 3, led to the expulsion…
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The Schmooze Friday Film: A Talking-Head Tribute to Lenny Bruce
Dustin Hoffman as Lenny Bruce in ‘Lenny’ (1974). Courtesy Toronto Jewish Film Festival Nearly 50 years after his landmark Carnegie Hall performance, and 44 years since his drug-related death, Lenny Bruce still has the power to shock. And as long he’s onscreen, it’s impossible to look away from Elan Gale’s Looking for Lenny, a new…
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