Maia Efrem is the former research editor and assistant to the editor and was also responsible for the Forward’s annual Salary Survey. Previously she served as the editor of Blognik Beat, a blog written by students who emigrated from or have ties to the Former Soviet Union. Maia is a graduate of Hunter College and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Move over Christie Brinkley, the Piano Man has (two) new blondes in his life! Funny girl Amy Schumer and her , Jennifer Lawrence grooved the night away dancing barefoot on top of the piano at Billy Joel’s concert in Chicago last night. This comes days after JLaw spilled the beans to The New York Times…
Looks like the world is turning against The Fat Jew, Instagram’s most popular class clown. After months of , The Fat Jew, or Josh Ostrovsky’s reported Comedy Central pilot has been canned following accusations of plagiarism and less than legitimate curation of content. Michael Ian Black, Patton Oswalt and Norm McDonald are just some of…
Movember may be months away but the latest facial hair viral video is already here, courtesy of a Gillette campaign in Israel. With over a million views, the ad follows an Israeli man who shaves his beard after 14 years. Barely recognized by his father, he then gives a beardless surprise to his wife and…
Jean Nidetch, the 91-year-old co-founder of Weight Watchers died early Wednesday morning in her Fort Lauderdale, Florida home. Born Jean Evelyn Slutsky in Brooklyn in 1923, Nidetch, was the daughter of a cabdriver and a manicurist. After she married, the unhappy and overweight Nidetch tried fad diet after fad diet to no avail, but when…
Getty Images In a quick visit to Jerusalem, reality TV star Kim Kardashian and rapper Kanye West had their toddler daughter, North West, baptized on Monday at a 12th century Armenian church in the old walled city. Dozens of fans mobbed an SUV that took the couple, their 22-month-old child and Kardashian’s sister Khloe to…
Getty Images Just when you let your guard down and started believing that true love really does exist — and that it can be found on a TV show, no less — reality slaps you right across the face. TMZ reports that Bachelorette Andi Dorfman and fiancée Josh Murray have called off their eight-month long…
Our annual Salary Survey shows that being a Jewish nonprofit CEO can be pretty darn lucrative. It sure puts to shame the median U.S. salary, which the 2013 Census calculates is $51,939. Type in your income and see how it stacks up against the median salaries of Jewish CEOs of advocacy and public service, federations,…
Courtesy of Neal Hoffman On his first day of MBA classes at the University of Virginia, Neal Hoffman called Hasbro Toys and offered to work for them without pay. That call led to six years of working at Hasbro’s marketing department on G.I. Joe, Tonka Toys and Chuck & Friends. A self-described, “big kid at…
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