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Breaking News In The #MeToo Era, These Synagogues Are Banning Shlomo Carlebach Songs
NEW YORK (JTA) — When Rabbi Angela Buchdahl announced how her synagogue would respond to the #MeToo moment, she singled out a man. But he wasn’t one of her congregants, synagogue clergy or staff members. He was Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, perhaps the most prominent 20th-century composer of American Jewish music. Carlebach penned a vast body…
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Fast Forward Matt Lauer Fought For His Job As Evidence Piled Up Against Him
When reporters from the New York Times were calling the executives of NBC about the “culture” of the Today Show, the executives asked Matt Lauer if there was anything they should know. “I am racking my brains, but I can’t think of anything,” Lauer responded, according to a report in Page Six. Less than two…
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Fast Forward Judge To Larry Nassar: ‘I Just Signed Your Death Warrant’
Larry Nassar, the former doctor of the U.S. Olympic gymnastics team, was sentenced to between 40 and 175 years in prison Wednesday, the New York Times reported. Nassar was convicted of multiple sex crimes and accused by prominent gymnasts, like Aly Raisman and Simone Biles, of sexual abuse. His seven-day trial saw 156 women testify…
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The Schmooze Scarlett Johansson Calls Out Franco, Time’s Up For Coercive Men
Scarlett Johansson is making headlines for attacking James Franco at the Los Angeles women’s march this weekend. But her decision to focus her speech on the grey areas of sexual misconduct that some see as “bad sex” and others as “sexual assault” is the real news. In a brilliant speech, Johansson raised the level of…
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The Schmooze ‘It’s About Time’: Ruth Bader Ginsburg On #MeToo
“How dare you? How dare you do this?” Those were Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s words in response to the man who gave her her first ever “#MeToo” moment, requesting a sexual favor in exchange for information about an upcoming exam. He was her professor at Cornell, and she was an undergraduate student. As…
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The Schmooze ‘I Love Dick’ Has Been Canceled By Amazon, With Other Shows
Tastes change. Amazon Studios has canceled the Jill Soloway-helmed TV series “I Love Dick” after one season. In what seems an attempt to scrub the studio’s slate clean after the ouster of top executive Roy Price, who resigned in the wake of accusations of sexual harassment, the production company has canceled a slew of shows…
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Fast Forward LA Times CEO Spread ‘Frat House’ Culture At Businesses He Led
Ross Levinsohn, CEO and publisher of the Los Angeles Times, has been followed for two decades by allegations of sexual harassment and fostering sexually inappropriate work cultures, NPR reported Thursday. The report, based on dozens of interviews with former colleagues and court records from sexual harassment suits, details a pattern of Levinsohn objectifying women he…
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The Schmooze Movie News: Woody Allen And Mark Wahlberg Cause Controversy, Gal Gadot Glows
It’s been quite the week for shocking film and television news: A controversial article accusing Aziz Ansari of sexual misconduct elicited dozens of inflamed responses, a scandal over gender pay disparity ripped through Hollywood and, most stunningly of all, “Paddington 2” — which is, in fairness, supposed to be quite good — became the best-reviewed…
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