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The Schmooze PBS Wades Into the ISIS Quagmire
“The Rise of ISIS,” the latest documentary from the award-winning Frontline PBS investigative series, is likely to leave you with one major takeaway. Despite the best of intentions, pretty much everything the U.S. has done in the Middle East has contributed to the chaos. We are Westerners lost in a strange land with absolutely no…
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The Schmooze USA Network Orders Up Israel Crime Thriller
Photo: Virginia Sherwood USA Network has ordered four additional episodes of “Dig,” an Israeli-set crime thriller. This brings to 10 the total number of episodes of the series, which premiers in March. Jason Isaacs stars as FBI agent Peter Connelly, who has his share of heartbreak and demons he want to leave behind. So he…
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The Schmooze Why Judd Hirsch Almost Turned Down ‘Taxi’
Judd Hirsch has packed a lot of success into his 79 years on the planet. He is of course known as Alex Rieger, cabbie extraordinaire in the long-running television sitcom “Taxi.” The role earned him four Emmy nominations and two wins. He’s also starred in a number of other successful series, including “Dear John” and,…
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The Schmooze Ben Feldman on ‘Mad Men,’ Playing Jews, and Why He Never Had a Bar Mitzvah
Photo: Trae Patton/NBC The last time we saw Ben Feldman, he’d just cut off one of his nipples. Now, he’s head-over-heels in love with a girl he spied — but never met — years earlier at a rock concert. Perhaps an explanation is in order. For the last three seasons, Feldman has played Michael Ginsberg,…
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The Schmooze The Secret Jewish History of ‘Gilmore Girls’
A still from Gilmore Girls Today is a big day. Today is the day we reconnect with Lorelai and Rory. Today is the day Netflix starts streaming all seven seasons of Gilmore Girls. WE. JUST. CAN’T. EVEN. The Gilmores themselves aren’t Jewish — Richard and Emily would gasp at the thought — but the show did…
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Opinion VIDEO: Satan and Jewess Give Birth to ISIS
Well, this is weird. Iraqi TV is rolling out a new satirical series, “Superstitious State,” that portrays the leader of ISIS as the spawn of Satan and — you guessed it — a Jewish woman. In a promo for the soon-to-come anti-ISIS show, broadcast several times daily on Al-Iraqiyya, we meet a Jewess adorned with…
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Opinion In ‘Black-ish,’ Jews Are More Than White-ish
“Dad, I want to have a bar mitzvah! And — I’ll get a Hebrew name. I’m going to go with either Shlomo or Shmuel.” So says young Andre Jr. — much to the dismay of Andre Sr. — in the trailer for ABC’s new family comedy, “Black-ish,” set to debut September 24. This African American…
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The Schmooze An Escape Artist With Daddy Issues
It’s a bit presumptuous of me to suggest that the History cable network scheduled its two-part “Houdini” mini-series over Labor Day weekend on the theory that most folks will be away from their television. But, if by some chance, that turned out actually to be the network’s strategy, kudos to them. Houdini is played by…
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