Gabriel Lehrman is a former Social Media Intern at The Forward. Follow him on Twitter @LivefromLehrman.
Gabriel Lehrman
By Gabriel Lehrman
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The Schmooze The Internet is Puzzled by Diversity Discussion Featuring Seth Rogen and 6 Other White Guys
The Hollywood Reporter published a roundtable conversation featuring seven animation producers and directors discussing their respective films. The talk centered around how cultural biases affect their approach to making movies and their portrayals of princesses on screen. Each director, you guessed it, was a white man. It didn’t take long for the internet to call…
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The Schmooze WATCH: Trevor Noah Faces Off Against Tomi Lahren on ‘The Daily Show’
Tomi Lahren and Trevor Noah are known for their ability to aggressively attack the subjects on their show, so when these political show hosts had a showdown of the hosts on television this week, it was surprisingly civil. Since Lahren, a political commentator for “TheBlaze,” has rocketed herself onto the mainstream of conservative thought by…
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News Shmuley Boteach Shares 50th Birthday With Fidel Castro Burial — Is That a Bad Thing?
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is known for his pro-Israel activism, his support of president-elect Donald Trump, and his books about sex in the Orthodox world. But recently he found himself making a small scene about a completely different issue – the burial of Fidel Castro. My 50th birthday party in NYC this Sunday 4 December same…
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Culture Mezuzah from a Million Meals
Alexander Rapaport, Executive Director of the Masbia Soup Kitchen, has had a busy year. His soup kitchen, with sites in Flatbush, Coney Island, and Rego Park (Queens), recently overcame months of delays to open a new site in Boro Park. According to their website, they have also “had an almost 350% increase in meal distribution…
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News What Did Ari Emanuel Say to President-Elect Donald Trump?
Was this meeting at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, so different from all the others? In a day filled with meetings at his Golf Club, President-elect Donald Trump met with the Ari Emanuel, the co-CEO of a Hollywood talent agency named WME-IMG. Trump dubbed Emanuel as the “King of Hollywood” according…
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The Schmooze That Time Jon Stewart and Megyn Kelly Duked It Out Over the Phone
There’s plenty of candid tidbits in Megyn Kelly’s new memoir “Settle for More.” The Fox News anchor details the well-publicized sexual harassment scandal with Roger Ailes, her feud with Donald Trump, and chronicles her rise to the top. But one story, a little known anecdote about what happened after Jon Stewart attacked her for a…
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