How did someone with no modelling experience go from caring for her siblings and helping her Mom clean homes and offices to being THE face of Christian Dior? 14-year-old Sofia Mechetner’s...
Shiva Watch: Beeswax, Broads, & Babies
BURT SHAVITZ, (born Ingram Berg Shavitz of Great Neck, Long Island, NY), 80, passed away. Shavitz became famous three decades ago when his beeswax and other Burt’s Bees natural products became...
Jewish Olympic Champion Aly Raisman Poses Naked for ESPN
Ally Raisman shot a nude but very tasteful video for ESPN’s famous Body Issue. Debuting in 2009, the Body issue features interviews and world class nude photography. Previous issues have...
4 Ways to Advertise to Jewish Millennials
Mark Duffy is a freelance copywriter with over 20 years of experience. He has also blogged about advertising for over 10-years on his Copyranter blog, and had the distinction of being...
Seattle Girl Scouts: A Mitzvah Tastier Than a Cookie Pays Off
Earlier this year, a donor offered $100,000 to the Girl Scouts of Western Washington (aka Seattle-Tacoma). This single gift was about 5% of the regional group’s annual contributions and one...
Peacamole? Can Pea-mmus Bring PEAce To The Mideast?
On Wednesday, July 1, The New York Times reported on a pea-filled version of guacamole recipe. The internet caught fire over this pea-infusion. U.S. President Barack Obama tweeted that he was against...
Rabbis Help Rebuild Tabgah Church
Last week, fire gutted part of the Church of Loaves and Fishes on the shores of the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel in what investigators suspect is an arson attack by Jewish extremists. The...
A Jewish Woman for a Sawbuck – the Redesign of the American $10 Bill
If U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew is to be believed – and as a Shomer Shabbos observing member of the Jewish tribe why should he not be believed – by the year 2020, a woman will...
JewliciousReels: Shalom Quito (and Guayaquil)
This month in NYC there are several film festivals. Kulturfest, the Israel FIlm Center and the JCC have Yiddish and Israeli films. The Human Rights Watch, American Black, Lower East Side, Rooftop...
Yidstock Lands at Central Park – Yiddish Soul Kulturfest
It was the night of June 16, 2015, James Joyce/Leopold Bloom’s Bloomsday to some, the night before Ramadan to others, and to about 3,000 in Manhattan, it was the first NYC Summerstage cantorial...