Lucy Cohen Blatter
By Lucy Cohen Blatter
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News Kosher Calls: Online Ring Tones
When a cell phone goes off in synagogue, it usually elicits dirty looks and snickers. But when one California-based entrepreneur heard a fellow shul-goer’s Matisyahu ring tone, a light bulb went off in his head. “I wanted to find more kosher mobile content that could appeal to the religious community as well as to kids,”…
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News Havdalah Hustle’s Healthier Holiday
Two-day Yom Tovs are decadent enough, but double-day holidays that run into the Sabbath are nothing short of gluttonous. This fall, observant Jews are facing a series of three-day festivals that will surely result in marathon large meals, loosened pants and discarded belts. But one group of New Yorkers living on Manhattan’s Upper West Side…
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Israel News Quick Fix: Vending Kosher Grub
What do Phat Farm clothing, Beyonce and Tina Knowles’s House of Dereon fashion line and kosher vending machines have in common? They’ve all been financed by Ruby Azrak, a fast-talking Brooklyn-born Syrian Jew with urban appeal. Azrak, rap mogul Russell Simmons’s business partner, has invested in Kosher Vending Industries, which manufactures Hot Nosh 24/6 —…
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News An Interview With Mom
Henny Youngman had his wife, Sadie Cohen; Phyllis Diller has her husband, “Fang,” and Judy Gold has her mother, Ruth. Gold’s nervous and oft-negative mom provides consistent fodder for the stand-up comedian’s act. “She is constantly calling and asking me, ‘Where are my residuals?’” Gold said. In her one-woman show “25 Questions for a Jewish…
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