Nathan Burstein
By Nathan Burstein
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The Schmooze Student Expelled For Abuse of Israeli Flag
Of all the ways in which people express their contempt for Israel, this is a new one: putting pubic hair on an Israeli flag. A student at St. Andrews University in Scotland has been expelled for doing just that, during a drunken incident in the room of a Jewish student. Paul Donnachie, a 19-year-old student…
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The Schmooze Glenn Beck Gears Up For Big Jerusalem Show
Glenn Beck’s back in Israel this week, in a trip that will conclude tomorrow with a program held at Jerusalem’s Davidson Center, not far from the Western Wall. This is the second visit by Beck since the end of his inflammatory run as a host at Fox News, and the first since July, when he…
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The Schmooze When Circumcision Becomes Amputation
The Shmooze can think of at least one guy who won’t be performing a bris anytime soon. John Patterson, a doctor at Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Ky., is in court this week, facing a lawsuit for amputating a penis during what was intended to be a circumcision. He’s being sued by Phillip Seaton, who’s already…
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The Schmooze ‘Twilight’ Star Kristen Stewart Discovered Singing Dreidel Song
Lana Turner was supposedly discovered at a soda shop while skipping school. Natalie Portman attracted attention while eating pizza on Long Island. And “Twilight” star Kristen Stewart? She was singing about a dreidel. That’s the story Stewart is sharing in the new issue of W magazine, in which she says a holiday play was the…
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The Schmooze Michele Bachmann’s Letter From the Kibbutz
The Shmooze experienced a twinge of guilt last month when it poked fun at Michele Bachmann’s mispronunciation of “chutzpah” during an interview on Fox News. Yes, her use of the word may have been a shameless attempt at pandering to Jewish voters. But was it really fair to expect a Protestant from the Midwest to…
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The Schmooze Sarah Silverman Gets Her Own NBC Sitcom
The Shmooze is surprised but pleased to learn that author, TV star and famed bedwetter Sarah Silverman will star in a new comedy on NBC. The subject of an “intense bidding war” among several networks, the show will be loosely based on Silverman’s own life — as was her previous show for Comedy Central, “The…
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The Schmooze No Joke: Letterman Threatened by Jihadist Website
“Lowly Jew” David Letterman must die! That’s the pronouncement of jihadist website Shumukh al-Islam, which sentenced Letterman — a Protestant — to death because of a joke he made about the killing of Ilyas Kashmiri, a top al Qaeda official who died in a U.S. airstrike in Pakistan. Shumukh al-Islam — which apparently watches late-night…
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The Schmooze Too Big For Broadway: ‘The Bible,’ the Musical
Coming soon to an arena near you: the Torah! A big-budget adaptation of the Old Testament will tour the United States starting in late 2012 or early 2013, reports entertainment website Deadline Hollywood. The show, simply called “The Bible,” is being helmed by Philip William McKinley, the director who stepped in to save the massively…
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