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Culture 22 absolutely on-the-mark pop culture predictions for 2022
2021 was a year of new beginnings — not just for our newly reopened society, but also for the coronavirus pandemic, which continues to mutate into increasingly scary-sounding novel Greek letter variants. And so, we end 2021 on a note of uncertainty. In a year like this, when Taylor Swift surprised us with a 10-minute…
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Culture Will Seth Rogen’s very Jewish book upset Jews?
It’s been nine months since Seth Rogen agitated the Jewish community by expressing a sentiment increasingly common among his generation. You’d be forgiven for forgetting all about it. In August, the actor-writer appeared on Marc Maron’s podcast and said he was “fed a huge amount of lies about Israel” throughout his Jewish education. The backlash…
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The Schmooze Why is Seth Rogen so weirdly good at pottery?
These days, Instagram is a great place to go if you want to feel bad about the productive quarantine hobbies you don’t have. People, you will discover if you venture into this app for even one minute, are making their own lemon curd. They are expanding their consciousness through breathwork. They are knitting sweaters way…
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Community Unlike Seth Rogen, I was in charge of my own Jewish education – I’m still a Zionist
By now, I am sure you have heard of Seth Rogen’s latest comments regarding Israel. I wasn’t shocked by his comments, but I knew that they didn’t speak for me or my experience with Israel. I grew up in a small town in Iowa and there weren’t any Jews nearby for hundreds of miles. I…
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Culture What Seth Rogen’s new movie gets right and wrong about the history of pickling
Toward the end of the new Seth Rogen comedy, “An American Pickle,” time-displaced pickler Herschel Greenbaum’s millennial great-grandson informs him that Brooklyn hipsters are pickling watermelon. “They pickle fruit these days?” says Herschel, who spent a century salinating in a pickle vat before being revived in 2019. “Just when I think I figure it out,…
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Community Talk about the conflict by talking about climate change
Joel Swanson’s recent take on the Seth Rogen interview on “WTF with Marc Maron” resonated with me not because I, like Rogen, once had a warped understanding of Israel, but because the reactions from some members of this community are so clearly misplaced, they represent a mass distraction. For one, it seems to me that…
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