Abigail Jones
By Abigail Jones
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The Schmooze Rabbi Says Sleeping With the Enemy Is Okay For Israelis
“Valentine operatives,” “honey traps” and “honey pots” have devilishly sweet names for a reason: The phrases refer to those men and women who seduce enemy operatives to gain key information or facilitate their capture. And according to a new ruling by Rabbi Ari Shvat, sleeping with the enemy goes “above and beyond” and is a…
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The Schmooze Jewish Body Cleanup Crews’ Bitter Fight
Two groups dueled it out on Kings Highway and West Sixth Street in Flatbush, Brooklyn, slinging insults (“I’m going to cut your balls off”) and fighting over rights to a dead motorcyclist’s body. Police intervened and tempers eventually cooled, though only momentarily. This is not the plot to a new action movie. Last April, Chesed…
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The Schmooze Slideshow: Leonard Nimoy’s ‘Secret Selves’
If you had a lost or hidden other half, who would it be? A rocker? A mad scientist? Someone sluttier or cooler than yourself? Fantasy comes to life in Leonard Nimoy’s “Secret Selves,” a collection of 26 moving, often provocative photographs on display at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art through January 2, 2011. Nimoy,…
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The Schmooze Rick Sanchez Attacks Jon Stewart, Calls Him A ‘Bigot’
Jews run CNN? And the larger news industry? It was just one of many head-turning statements that TV news anchor Rick Sanchez made yesterday while appearing on “Stand Up! With Pete Dominick” on Sirius radio. “I think Jon Stewart’s a bigot,” he exclaimed, then later clarified, “All right, I’ll take the word bigot back; I’ll…
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The Schmooze Oldest Living Jew Dies at 111
Fannie Forman Buten witnessed it all: the roaring ‘20s, two world wars, the women’s and civil rights movements, JFK, Elvis, airplanes, moon landings, MTV and the Internet. She was also believed to be the oldest living Jewish person in the world up until her death last week. Buten, who was born in Austria in 1899…
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The Schmooze How Forward Staff Members Fared on Pew Religion Quiz
You may not be smarter than a fifth grader, but do you know more about religion than the average American? The Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life recently published results from a survey on Americans’ religious knowledge, which found that Jews are among the smartest religious group. (We knew we were smart,…
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The Schmooze ‘Barbra Streisand’ Goes Viral
Afternoon blues? Plug in your earphones and check out this hilarious new clip by the DJ duo Duck Sauce, posted on the New York Times ArtsBeat blog.
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The Schmooze Do Jewish Lawyers Really Do It Better?
On a bench near the Broward County Courthouse in South Florida, a blue and white sign exclaimed “Prefer a Jewish lawyer!” and offered a phone number people could call to reach the Jewish American Bar Association, a Jewish lawyer referral service founded by social worker Lisa Spitzer and based in Boca Raton. The controversial advertisement…
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