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The Schmooze Mayim Bialik On ‘Big Bang Theory’ Showed Me An Orthodox Woman Can Do Anything
I was a senior in high school when my mom surprised me with tickets to see a taping of “The Big Bang Theory.” We were spending my yeshiva winter break in Los Angeles for a mother-daughter trip. And then, in the middle of the Warner Bros. studio tour, my mom handed me a piece of…
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The Schmooze Let’s Talk About Adam Sandler’s Best SNL Sketches Of All Time
Jewish comedian Adam Sandler made his hosting debut this weekend on “Saturday Night Live,” and it was superb. A veteran of the beloved variety show, Sandler became the comedian we know and love with the whimsical, musical humor he showcased on the sketch series he joined at only 23. After being hired as an SNL…
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The Schmooze Brandeis Sports Director Loses, But Makes Jeopardy History
In one of the biggest feats on this season of Jeopardy, a Jew found a way to make a loss into a piece of history. Adam Levin, a Brandeis University alum and the current sports director for the university’s athletics department, nearly beat current Jeopardy champion James Holzhauer, the Boston Globe reported. The episode was…
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The Schmooze ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Is Filming Its Third Season And We Can’t Wait For It
Get ready folks – production is officially underway for one of today’s most popular television shows! Filming for the upcoming third season of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” began earlier this month on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Town and Country reported. And a new image has been released to give us a taste into…
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The Schmooze This Is….Marvelous: Sterling K. Brown To Star On ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’
It’s official: a Pearson is coming to the Jewish side. Actor Sterling K. Brown, most famous for his role as Randall Pearson on the hit NBC drama “This Is Us,” will star in a three-episode arc on the third season of the Amazon Prime breakout series “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” In a video shared to…
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The Schmooze Get Ready For A Very Jewish Philip Roth TV Show
Philip Roth will speak from the grave…in the form of a television mini-series about a rabbi, of course. The late author’s 2004 novel “The Plot Against America” is being developed into a six-part miniseries from HBO, Deadline reported. Produced by frequent partners Ed Burns and David Simon, the work depicts an alternate version of American…
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The Schmooze U.S. May Not Air Eurovision — Hosted By Israel — This Year
Last year, the world watched Israeli singer Netta Barzilai win the biggest live singing competition in the world. This year, the U.S. might not have the chance to watch the spectacle. Eurovision Song Contest, the annual spectacle that made megastars out of the likes of ABBA and Celine Dion, may not air in the U.S….
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The Schmooze Is God A Black Woman Or A White Man? TV Can’t Decide.
A Jew dies and goes to heaven. Standing at the pearly gates, she sees…wait — is that Maya Rudolph? Or Steve Buscemi? Or can she not see anyone at all? An uncanny theological dialogue has quietly broken out in the splashiest of places — network television — where three different shows, all by Jewish creators,…
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