Nathan Burstein
By Nathan Burstein
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The Schmooze Eva Braun Blackface Photo Reveals Her Love of Jewish Film
Hitler’s girlfriend apparently loved a film focused on the struggle to maintain Jewish tradition. A recently released photo now making the rounds online shows Eva Braun in 1937, in an image the dictator’s mistress titled “Al Jolson and Me.” Internet chatter about the picture has focused on Braun’s use of blackface, citing it as further…
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The Schmooze Galliano Gets Himself a Jewish Lawyer
It’s not like lawyers had such a sterling reputation to begin with, but apparently the Shmooze isn’t alone in its surprise that John Galliano will be defended in court by a Jewish attorney. “Some people call me anonymously, swear at me,” Stephane Zerbib [tells][1] Israel’s Ynet News. Though surely upsetting, those phone calls aren’t entirely…
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The Schmooze Yehoram Gaon Sparks Israeli Pop Music Culture War
In America, we fight our culture wars over unwed mothers and gay marriage. In Israel, they fight them over pop music. One of the Jewish state’s veteran Ashkenazi entertainers has ignited the latest battle over Mizrahi music, the genre that arrived with Jewish immigrants from the Arab world. Traditionally disdained by the country’s Ashkenazi elite,…
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The Schmooze Haute Couture Comes to Ramallah
Milan, New York, Paris and … Ramallah. The Palestinian city has joined the world’s style capitals by staging its own fashion event, “considered the first couture show in the West Bank,” according to Israeli news Web site NRG. Featuring the work of Palestinian designers, the three-day affair is focused mostly on bridal gowns, with the…
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The Schmooze Sheen Opens Up About Jewish Roots
Just when The Shmooze thought he couldn’t come up with anything loopier, Charlie Sheen has managed to surprise us. The former TV star – who was officially axed from “Two and a Half Men” yesterday – is now talking about his Jewish roots, two weeks after making headlines for comments widely criticized as anti-Semitic. Speaking…
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The Schmooze The Happiest Man in America Is a Jew
Not only is being Jewish good for your health, it makes you happier, too. At the request of the New York Times, the Gallup research organization has put together a profile of “the happiest person in America,” a demographic composite based on surveys the company has conducted daily among 1,000 U.S. adults for the last…
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The Schmooze Will Galliano Go To Jail?
John Galliano could be headed from the fashion house to the big house. French prosecutors have confirmed they’ll [press charges][1] against the disgraced designer, who was fired from Christian Dior this week after the release of a video that showed him launching an anti-Semitic tirade at a Paris cafe last fall. Galliano told shocked onlookers,…
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The Schmooze Name of Sacha Baron Cohen’s Baby Revealed!
Actress Isla Fisher is taking this whole Judaism thing seriously. The “Wedding Crashers” star and her husband, “Borat” comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, have reportedly named their second child Elula, after the sixth month of the Hebrew calendar. The name is a female form of Elul, which usually falls in the late summer or early fall….
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