Nathan Burstein
By Nathan Burstein
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The Schmooze More Accusations From Sara Netanyahu’s Former Employee
Another day, another round of embarrassment for the Netanyahu family. Tara Mela, the Nepalese household worker injured during an argument with Sara Netanyahu, gave a press conference yesterday, in which she alleged further mistreatment by Israel’s first family. A caretaker for Sara Netanyahu’s 96-year-old father, Mela claimed she was fired last night and had not…
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The Schmooze Worker Broke Her Own Finger, Netanyahus Say
Israel’s first lady was afraid of her Nepalese employee. That’s the updated version of events from the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a day after his publicity team acknowledged that a domestic worker dislocated her finger during an argument with the prime minister’s scandal-prone wife. The still-unnamed worker “responded with an uncontrollable burst…
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The Schmooze London: Stop Posing Next to the Wax Statue of Hitler
Displaying a statue of Hitler strikes the Shmooze as an inherently bad idea — and sure enough, the one at Madame Tussauds in London is causing problems. England’s Zionist Federation has asked the wax-statue museum to alter its Hitler figure, suggesting it be made to look more “vulnerable,” or posed in a way that prevents…
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The Schmooze Caretaker Breaks Finger, Accuses Sara Netanyahu
For the sake of his own political career, Benjamin Netanyahu might want to keep his wife away from household workers. For the second time in less than two years, Israel’s first lady is being accused of serious mistreatment by an employee, an allegation that is now soaring to the top of Israel’s headlines. This time…
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The Schmooze ‘Real Housewife’ Not an Anti-Semite, Says the ADL
She’s America’s most famous table flipper, but Teresa Giudice is not an anti-Semite. Both the Anti-Defamation League and the “Real Housewife of New Jersey” herself have weighed in on the matter, following a comment on the show’s most recent episode that seemed to suggest the stereotype of money-obsessed Jews. Though her husband’s facing bankruptcy and…
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The Schmooze Glenn Beck Wraps Up Visit With Rally Near the Western Wall
It featured a shofar and showtunes, and unfolded without incident. Glenn Beck wrapped up his much-debated trip to Israel today with a rally near the Western Wall, where the former Fox News star entered to the blast of the shofar in what at times resembled a religious ceremony. “This is the throne of the Lord,”…
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The Schmooze Woody Allen Headed To Munich?
Holocaust obsessive Woody Allen could be making his next movie in Germany. The Hollywood Reporter says the filmmaker, currently shooting “The Bop Decameron” in Rome, is in talks to make Munich the scene of his next film. Still enjoying the success of “Midnight in Paris” — the highest-grossing movie in his six-decade career — Allen…
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The Schmooze Rick Perry’s Mezuzah
First there was the Sarah Palin sheitel. Now there’s the Rick Perry mezuzah. Los Angeles-based MezuzahStore.com has created a large stone mezuzah in honor of the Texas governor, a tribute that follows Perry’s June signing of a law that explicitly protects the right of state residents to post religious objects outside their doors. The law…
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