Renee Ghert-Zand
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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The Schmooze Montreal Museum Takes the Internet to the Streets
“I’m interested in pushing young people to get involved, to take ownership of history,” declared Zev Moses, founder and director of the Interactive Museum of Jewish Montreal. For Moses, this means getting people out into the original Jewish neighborhoods of Montreal for an “immersive experience” that combines computer technology with actual visits to historic sites….
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Life Unmarried Pregnant Teacher Wins Court Case
The Tel Aviv Labor Court recently ruled that an Israeli religious school cannot fire an unmarried teacher for becoming pregnant by in-vitro fertilization. The decision has sparked a lot of discussion. For me, it highlights the contradictory expectations put on Jewish women, especially those who choose to live and work in Orthodox communities. The court…
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Opinion Locusts Go Biblical — But Are They Kosher?
If it were a movie, Israel’s real-life nightmare would be a cross between “The Birds” and “The Ten Commandments.” Just in time for Passover, the Holy Land has been plagued by millions of locusts swarming in from across the Egyptian border. Hysterical news reports warned Israelis in the southern part of the country to stay…
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Food Where Obama (and You) Should Eat in Israel
It looks like room service isn’t going to be an option for President Obama when he stays at the Kind David Hotel in Jerusalem on his upcoming trip to Israel. He’ll arrive on March 20, less than a week before Passover begins and according to The Times of Israel, the hotel’s kitchens will have already…
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The Schmooze Drake Throws His Cash Around
Drake seems to have a lot of cash to literally throw around. He arrived this past weekend at a Charlotte, NC strip club with a box full of cash in the amount of $50,000. Before long, it was raining money so hard that the floor was covered in bills. That’s $50K that could have gone…
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The Schmooze Bonnie Franklin, Missed and Mourned
Bonnie Franklin, who died on Friday of pancreatic cancer, is missed and mourned by her “One Day At A Time” co-stars and “daughters” Valerie Bertinelli and Mackenzie Phillips. Tori Spelling says that rumors of an impending divorce from her husband and the father of her four children, Dean McDermott, are exactly that — rumors. “It’s…
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The Schmooze Rolling Stones Israel Show a Purim Hoax
Rolling Stones fans learned that you can’t always get what you want, when a story in the Jewish Press about the band’s planned tour to Israel was revealed to be a Purim hoax. For a while there, Holy Land Stones fans were excited about the prospect of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie…
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Life Jerusalem’s Sexist Street Signs
I never really paid close attention to the street signs in Jerusalem until a couple of years ago, when I missed an important turn onto Golda Meir Blvd. I missed the turn because the local Haredim had erased the print on the sign. They were obviously far more concerned about removing a woman’s name —…
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