Josh Tapper
By Josh Tapper
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The Schmooze ‘Oseh Shalom’ Passes 1 Million YouTube Hits
A stirring video rendition of “Oseh Shalom,” produced by prolific English producer Trevor Horn for the U.K.’s Office of the Chief Rabbi, surpassed the 1 million views mark on YouTube earlier this week. The video, recorded in May 2008 in honor of Israel’s 60th anniversary, was shot at a North London studio (more) famous for…
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The Schmooze Irma Stern Painting Sells for Staggering £2.4 Million
South African artist Irma Stern acquired a reputation for wanderlust during the mid-twentieth century, painting her way through innumerable African countries after her first exhibition in Berlin in 1919. (Stern, born in Transvaal to German-Jewish immigrants, refused to show in Germany between 1933 and 1945, instead traveling through Zanzibar, Senegal and the Congo.) Her paintings…
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The Schmooze Attention Single Jewish Men…
Are you a single, thirty-something Jewish American man, in constant dread of your mother’s nagging quest to understand why you’re not married? Do you live in the shadow of her disappointment, feeling inferior and inadequate, and maybe starting to believe yourself that you’ll die alone? Well, here’s a solution: Move to Tel Aviv, where 44…
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The Schmooze Ariel Sharon Coma Sculpture: Quirky, Morbid or Blasphemous?
While former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon lies comatose in a Tel Aviv hospital, his body will be on display at the city’s Kishon Art Gallery beginning Thursday. In case you were wondering, hospital attendants haven’t carted Sharon’s body to the exhibit. The “body,” a life-size, animated sculpture replete with hospital bed, drip and blue…
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The Schmooze Rick Sanchez and Anti-Semitism
By this point, we all know the details of former CNN anchor Rick Sanchez’s fall from grace. As fast as he rose from fill-in anchor in the mid-2000s to host of a two-hour, social media-inspired afternoon broadcast, Rick’s List, he was out the door, taken down by one of the great taboos left standing in…
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The Schmooze This Is What Happens When a GOP House Candidate Dresses as a Nazi
Here’s a question that’s popped up one time too many in the last few years: Why, 65 years after the fall of Nazi Germany, do some people still think it’s conscionable to don Nazi uniforms? And why, for goodness sakes, would they do so if they have political aspirations? Associating with Nazism is career suicide,…
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The Schmooze Document Shows Philippe Petain’s Influence on Anti-Semitic Policies
Little had been known about French collaborationist leader Philippe Pétain’s influence on anti-Semitic policies in Vichy France, where he governed from 1940 to 1944. But according to The Guardian, a draft of a memo, recently revealed to the Holocaust Memorial in Paris, shows Pétain went to great efforts to extend the brutal treatment of French…
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The Schmooze Elderly Couple Placed on ‘Cabin Arrest,’ Booted From Cruise Ship After Jewish Taunts
Surliness and course language, not to mention public drunkenness, have always been a part of a sailor’s life on the high seas. But those associations tend to call to mind 18th-century pirates, or maybe Massachusetts fishermen, not East Side octogenarians. But it turns out little old ladies can swear like sailors too. Just ask passengers…
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