Lisa Keys
By Lisa Keys
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News Dressed To Impress
One look at Isacco Azra, and it’s pretty obvious that he’s a more than suitable public relations man for his single-label clothing shop, Eredi Pisanò. With a relatively fluent command of English, the Italian businessman clearly loves his label’s high-end men’s clothing. Showing a reporter around his store on Manhattan’s Madison Avenue, he excitedly folds…
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Culture Sunrise? Sunset?
Jewish culture in Miami Beach: a faded memory, or something that is alive and kicking, though occasionally interrupted by bursts of absurdity? Two new programs — one upcoming on PBS, the other in constant reruns on VH1 — offer opposing views of the state of Yiddishkeit in south Florida’s glitziest strip of sand. “Where Neon…
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Culture Mafia Jews: Inside a Genuine Cabal
Supermob: How Sidney Korshak and His Criminal Associates Became America’s Hidden Power Brokers By Gus Russo Bloomsbury USA, 592 pages, $34.95. The Jewish people are instructed to be a “light unto the nations” — and what society could use more illumination than the underworld? So goes the story of mob lawyer Sidney Korshak, whose partnerships…
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News Latest Game Show Entry: Moms Vying for ‘Hottest’
They’re sexy, and they know it. They wear tight jeans and high heels, and they’re more than happy to shake their booties for the camera. Meet the moms of America! On the morning of October 14, nearly 1,000 women turned up at a midtown Manhattan studio, each hoping to land a spot on “Hottest Mom…
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Culture Stereotype This! Introducing Ethnic Superheroes
Abraham begat Isaac. Isaac begat Jacob. Eventually, Noah begat Shem and, in due course, nerdy Jewish kids begat superheroes. In 1933, two nebbishes named Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel created Superman (birth name “Kal-El,” Hebrew for “All God”), and since then it’s been a source of pride that Jews created the culture of comic book…
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Culture New Docudrama Emcees E=mc2
Arguably the greatest mind of the modern world, Albert Einstein famously would neglect to wear his coat in the dead of winter, absentmindedly misplace his keys and forget life’s little details, like where he lived. So perhaps it’s not shocking that when it came to proving correct his most famous equation, E=mc2, it took the…
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Culture A Fashion Icon Reveals Her Tough Side
“I’m pretty tough,” Diane von Furstenberg explained. No kidding. Sitting barefoot in her expansive office in Manhattan’s hip Far West Village, the princess-turned-socialite-turned-clothing-designer emits a cool vibe that is simultaneously glamorous, stern and relaxed. On a simmering summer afternoon, von Furstenberg looks flawless in white — showing no side effects from the sweltering heat —…
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Culture Bar Mitzvah-gate, Courtesy of Fox
In our post-“Nipplegate” era, censorship and television have become as inextricably linked as Laverne and Shirley. In recent weeks, fear of Federal Communications Commission fines led 65 ABC affiliates to nix an unedited version of “Saving Private Ryan,” while the bare backside of Nicolette Sheridan for a Monday Night Football spot was nearly enough to…
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