This is the Forward’s coverage of Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, whose career collapsed in autumn 2022 after he went on an antisemitic tirade.
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The Schmooze Kanye West and Kim Kardashian To Visit Israel
Getty Images Kanye West and Kim Kardashian reportedly are planning to visit Israel next month. The celebrity power couple booked rooms at Jerusalem’s high-end Waldorf Astoria Hotel for themselves and their entourage for April 12, the Israeli daily Yediot Acharonot reported Wednesday. The hotel declined to comment to Yediot, which reported that everyone involved in…
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The Schmooze 5 Jewish Things About Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s Wedding
The crème de la crème of Hollywood, fashion and music worlds will descend on Paris this weekend for the royal Kimye nuptials. Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s rumored Versailles (or Florence?) May 24th, wedding has the world watching and waiting with bated breath. What will the bride wear? Will North crawl down the aisle? Will…
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The Schmooze Bar Refaeli Gets Invite for Kim and Kanye’s Wedding
You are cordially invited to the biggest celebrity wedding of the year. Well, Bar Refaeli is. The Israeli supermodel is among the 100 guests who received an invitation to the Kim Kardashian-Kanye West wedding over the weekend. The ceremony is set to take place in Paris on May 24. The three apparently became friendly during…
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The Schmooze Jewish Museum’s Purim Ball: A Rap and Twitter Spiel
“It’s hard to imagine that we sold out The Armory!” beamed Claudia Gould Director of the Jewish Museum at its February 26 Purim Ball which raised a record $2.5 million. More than 1,000 festive donors dined on a fabulous meal beneath a ceiling installation of 3,000 T-shirts with such imprints as: “I Love Esther” and…
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The Schmooze Kanye West Takes Back ‘Ignorant Compliment’
Kanye West told a Chicago radio station that he wants to take back the “ignorant compliment” he made about Jews. The rapper referred to a comment he made last month during an interview on the New York City radio station WWPR-FM. In defending President Obama’s difficulty in passing his policies, West said, “Black people don’t…
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Fast Forward Farrakhan Tells Kanye Not To Apologize for Jewish Remark
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan told rapper Kanye West not to apologize or bow to pressure over remarks that were called “classic anti-Semitism” by the Anti-Defamation League. “You are telling Kanye West he should know better,” Farrakhan said on Saturday during a weekly address for the Nation of Islam, directing his words at ADL…
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The Schmooze ADL Blasts Kanye West Remarks
Kanye West is in hot water with Abe Foxman. The Anti-Defamation League’s national director issued a statement today denouncing the rapper’s comment over the weekend that : “Black People don’t have the same level of connections as Jewish people.” “If the comments are true as reported, this is classic anti-Semitism,” said Foxman. “There it goes…
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The Schmooze Watch Seth Rogen Play a Shirtless Kim Kardashian
So, if you’re not already aware, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West released a music video last week for the rapper’s song, “Bound 2,” which showed them engaging in some steamy business on a motorcycle. It looked like this: Well, if your immediate reaction to that was “I sure wish two Jewish boys would recreate the…
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Yiddish ווידעאָ: יוטוב־פּערזענלעכקייט רעדט אויף ייִדיש וועגן אַ משפּחה־טראַגעדיעVIDEO: Youtube personality speaks in Yiddish about a tragedy in the family
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