Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleWelcome to The Reel Schmooze with ToI film reviewer Jordan Hoffman and host Amanda Borschel-Dan, where we bring you all the entertainment news and film reviews a Jew can use.
Hoffman delights in his New Jersey quest for the best cottage cheese in the world — Israeli — much to the utter scorn of Borschel-Dan before turning to his scathing review of the new Amazon “documentary” charting the life of First Lady Melania Trump prior to the her husband’s 2025 inauguration.
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We hear a theory that producer Melania Trump attempted to recapture the Eastern European propaganda look of her youth in the MAGA vehicle probing her napkin choices, and Hoffman rates her success.
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