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Israel News Israelis Offer Shabbat Meals And Sanctuary To African Asylum-Seekers
In the basement of a synagogue in Jerusalem, almost 100 people have turned out on a cold and rainy January night to hear about what they can do to help African asylum-seekers in Israel who are in danger of being deported. The point of the gathering is to sign up families, many of them English-speaking…
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Israel News Inspired By Anne Frank, Israeli Rabbis To Hide African Immigrants Facing Deportation
A group of Israeli rabbis, including the sister of comedian Sarah Silverman, cited Anne Frank as inspiration for a program calling on Israelis to hide African asylum seekers facing forced expulsion from Israel in their homes. The Anne Frank Home Sanctuary movement hopes to assist the near 40,000 African asylum seekers predominately from Eritrea and…
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The Schmooze WATCH: Sarah Silverman’s Rabbi Sister Drops F-Bombs To Explain Judaism
“My third favorite sister, you guys!” Sarah Silverman exclaimed, welcoming one of her three sisters, the Jerusalem-based Reform rabbi Susan Silverman, to the talk show “I Love You, America.” In a brief, but stunningly specific, discussion on Sarah Silverman’s new Hulu show that aired around Thanksgiving, the sisters spent eight minutes lying on a bed,…
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Fast Forward Sarah Silverman’s Birthday Wishes To Her Nephew In The IDF Bring Out The Haters
(JTA) — Comedian Sarah Silverman posted birthday wishes on Instagram to her 19-year-old nephew showing a photo of him as a baby and a photo of him as an Israeli soldier, leading to hateful messages in response. This baby is now a 19 year old soldier. OY. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, @adar_abramowitz_silverman I LOVE YOU A ZILLION!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️…
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The Schmooze Sarah Silverman’s Response To Louis CK Is Devastating
What do you do when a person you love does bad things? Sarah Silverman loves America, but she doesn’t understand what led to the outcome of the 2016 election. She made the TV show “I Love You, America” to try to get to the bottom of it, and laugh along the way. And Sarah Silverman…
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The Schmooze Sarah Silverman Gets The Role She Deserves In ‘Battle of the Sexes’
My beloved Sarah Silverman spoke and said unto me, ‘Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away, this is freaking HAPPENING.’ — Song of Songs 2:10 (Revised by The Schmooze Edition.) Sarah Silverman is one of the funniest people in the world, and yet she is almost always bad in movies. You’ve been…
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The Schmooze Sarah Silverman’s Rabbi Sister Says Comedian Is ‘Holier’ Than She Is
It’s cold out there for celebrities on Twitter, especially the ones who refuse to keep quiet about our country’s current political … uhhhh … situation. Sarah Silverman is one celebrity who will not be silenced when it comes to tweeting her very explicit opinions about President Donald J. Trump, white nationalism, and the Republican Party…
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The Schmooze Can Sarah Silverman’s ‘Aggressively Dumb’ New Hulu Series Heal America?
One need not be intimately familiar with Sarah Silverman to grasp her fiery hatred for the President of the United States. She’s been known to express her feelings on Twitter in no uncertain terms. If you haven’t had the pleasure of witnessing them, I’ve included a couple below that aptly sum up her sentiment towards…
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