Josh Tapper
By Josh Tapper
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The Schmooze American Jewish Soccer Players Gunning For Sports Glory
As Jordan Farmer plays a steady back-up role for the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA Finals and Kevin Youkilis, Ryan Braun and Ian Kinsler all rank in the top five in MLB All-Star voting at their respective positions – Braun, a Milwaukee Brewer, leads all National League outfielders – three other Jewish American athletes…
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The Schmooze California Students Caught Playing ‘Beat the Jew’ Game
If playground politics weren’t brutal enough, seven Southern California high school seniors added a little antisemitic flair through a game brazenly titled “Beat the Jew,” played on and around the campus of La Quinta High School on May 20. The game, promoted through a 40-member Facebook page, never happened again and the participating students all…
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The Schmooze Hebrew U Sues GM over Sexy Einstein Image
When Albert Einstein died he bequeathed his letters and rights to his image to Hebrew University in Jerusalem. And now, 55 years later, the university is suing General Motors for publishing a bodacious, yet weirdly flattering, image of the scientist in last fall’s People magazine “Sexiest Man Alive” issue. The ad, which was part of…
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The Schmooze Tiger’s Jewish Mistress Will Pose for Playboy
Rachel Uchitel, the Las Vegas nightclub hostess-cum-Tiger Woods mistress, will capitalize on her tryst with the world’s most infamous golfer by appearing half-nude in an upcoming Playboy spread, according to celebrity gossip site, TMZ. But, Uchitel, the granddaughter of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants may not be taking it off so fast. She agreed to pose on…
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The Schmooze ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Is Coming to New York!
After seven seasons in sunny Los Angeles, celebrity schlemiel Larry David is bringing his award-winning HBO series, “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” home to New York. HBO confirmed a New York Post story stating that a “majority” of the show’s 10 episodes will be shot in the city where David grew up, and where his career-making sitcom,…
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The Schmooze Flooding Auschwitz
Just a few days after the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial complex was closed in an effort to save its Holocaust archives from heavy flash flooding in southern Poland, the site has been partially reopened, according to the Associated Press. Heavy rainfall has wreaked havoc across central Europe in recent days, causing rivers to burst, flooding many provincial…
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The Schmooze Funnyman, the First Jewish Superhero
In 1947, nearly a decade after Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster sold the rights to Superman — an infamously raw deal that earned the comic’s creators a paltry $130 — the duo attempted to avenge their exclusion from the franchise’s lucrative rise to the top of the comic book heap. But their new effort, Funnyman,…
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News Stanford Gets $12 Million for Jewish Studies
Stanford University will introduce a new doctoral concentration in education and Jewish studies, thanks to a $12 million grant from the Jim Joseph Foundation. The grant, which will endow a professorship for the program, is the largest gift in the history of Stanford’s School of Education. The program is expected to launch in January, 2011….
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