Shira Feder
By Shira Feder
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The Schmooze Gal Gadot Nixes Eurovision Gig
Ah, Eurovision. Or as I like to call it, the last bastion of international camp and kitsch. It’s a song contest, in which different countries of the world submit original songs to compete. These one hit wonder songs capture something of our time, something to which we cannot put a name to, a spirit of…
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Food Shakshuka For When You Feel Absolutely Alone In The World
Everyone has those recipes. Those break-the-emergency-glass, cook in times of extreme darkness and desperation, use your tears as a seasoning kind of recipes. When it feels like you’ve fallen down and can’t get up, cooking can be cathartic. You’re feeding yourself and you’re reminding yourself that you matter and that you are important and that…
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The Schmooze Sarah Silverman Feels Sorry For Louis C.K. And Others Called Out By #MeToo
In this troubling age of #MeToo, in the near-constant darkness of sexual abuse allegations, celebrities are struggling to find a way to reconcile their personal relationships with their fellow famous folk who have been accused of misbehavior. Sarah Silverman, a friend of Louis C.K. (who has been accused of masturbating in front of women without…
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The Schmooze Shakira Takes A Stand On Israel By Performing In Tel Aviv This Summer
Shakira is scheduled to perform in Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park this July — despite expected BDS protests. This will be the first time that she performs in Israel, though she did participate in a 2011 presidential conference, hosted by Shimon Peres in Jerusalem. (Apparently, Peres referred to Shakira multiple times as Sharika, but that’s all…
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Food What Philip Roth Taught Us About The Jewish Appetite, Liver And Beyond
“So. Now you know the worst thing I have ever done. I fucked my own family’s dinner,” Philip Roth famously wrote in Portnoy’s Complaint, a line that remains, decades later, as compelling as the first time I read it. It was the idea of food as sex as solo activity as sustenance. There was an…
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Food Muslims And Jews Celebrate Ramadan In Interfaith Dinners Nationwide
This year, Jews and Muslims alike sat down for a halal and kosher iftar feast together in Brooklyn’s Sheepshead Bay. “If [there was] ever a time people come together as Americans and Brooklynites, this is the time,” attendee Benjamin W Schaeffer told the Brooklyn Daily. “When people interact, [they] can appreciate those shared values.” Since…
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Food European Jewish Food Festival ‘Gefiltefest’ Canceled This Year
When I woke up this morning, I was not aware that a cataclysmic catastrophe had taken place while I slumbered: Europe’s largest Jewish food festival is short a couple dollars this years and will not be taken place. That’s right, no Gefiltefest. Michael Leventhal, Gefiltefest founder, told the JC: “We hope it will be back….
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Food The World’s First Kosher Cheeseburger Is Here
The trail-blazing Impossible Burger, the world’s only kosher cheeseburger, created sustainably, is now officially on the Orthodox Union’s kosher database registry. The Impossible Burger entered development in 2011 and debuted in July 2016 at the fashionably erstwhile Chef David Chang’s Momofuku Nishi in Manhattan. It’s since won a 2017 Tasty Award and a 2018 Fabi…
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