Jana Banin
By Jana Banin
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The Schmooze Regina Spektor Welcomes Baby Boy
(JTA) — Mazel tov to Regina Spektor on the birth of her son — on keeping the details and photo evidence away from the prying eyes of the media (although we have to admit we’re dying to see a shot of the munchkin). The only public proof that the Jewish songstress and her musician husband Jack…
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The Schmooze Muppets and Bar Refaeli Too Racy for Israeli TV
(JTA) — A risqué ad featuring Bar Refaeli in bed with a purple, mustachioed Muppet has been banned from running before 10 p.m. in the holy land, Walla!, Israel news website reports. Per a governmental council called The Second Authority for Television and Radio, the ad for local fashion brand Hoodies has “too many sexual insinuations”…
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The Schmooze Sorry Guys, No Amy Winehouse Hologram Tour
(JTA) — If you thought rumors of a concert tour featuring a hologram version of the late Amy Winehouse seemed too good to be true — or perhaps creepy — you would be correct. Last week, the UK newspaper The Sun reported that billionaire Alki David was planning to use 3-D computer technology plus an orchestra…
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The Schmooze Julianna Margulies Can Really Lay on The ‘Jew Guilt’
What to do when a key player on your hit series has one foot out the door? Invoke your bubbe at her most manipulative. At least that’s the route “The Good Wife” star Julianna Margulies took when trying to convince co-star and friend Josh Charles to stay on the show, Entertainment Weekly reports. Last night…
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The Schmooze Sarah Silverman Donates Her Voice to Keshet
(JTA) — Attention all Bostonians looking for a good, old-fashioned, R-rated outgoing voicemail message: Sarah Silverman and Keshet, an organization that advocates for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Jews, might be able to help. Attendees of the Keshet Cabaret on March 27 will have the opportunity to bid on a personal voicemail from the raunchy…
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The Schmooze Is Beyonce Coming to Israel?
(JTA) — The upcoming Israeli summer might just be getting even hotter. According to a Sunday report on Israel’s Channel 2 news, Beyoncé will be stopping over for a gig at Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park on June 15. The thing is, the date does not appear on Beyoncé’s website. Plus, as Israeli fans may remember,…
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The Schmooze Lighting Up With Seth Rogen: Jewish Edition
(JTA) — We just can’t stop talking about Seth Rogen lately! Sorry if you’ve had enough, but this clip from Bravo’s “Watch What Happens Live” is just too Jew-packed to resist. Last night the show’s host Andy Cohen got Rogen to play a round of “Spill the Herbal Tea,” in which the writer, actor and Alzheimer’s…
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Food Jeff Goldblum’s Newest Role? Restaurateur
Jeff Goldblum, it seems, per this obviously totally real clip from MTV’s “After Hours With Josh Horowitz,” is now in the restaurant business. At NYC eatery Goldblum’s, the actor is proprietor, maitre d, waiter, piano player, bartender, and more. A fantasy come true. Except for kosher folks. Sorry guys — there’s pork on the menu….
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