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.
BBC America has secured the rights to adapt “Zero Motivation,” an Israeli female-centric comedy about army life with Amy Poehler’s production company, Paper Kite Productions. Variety reports that “Zero Motivation,” a feature length film that premiered at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival, will be adapted as a television series for American audiences and will be…
The Internet reverberated yesterday with details about how, exactly, neo-Nazis identify and target Jews on social media and online. By placing an “echo,” a symbol consisting of three parentheses around a (((Jewish-sounding name))), white supremacists and anti-Semites — many of them self-identified Trump supporters — signal to each other who is (((Jewish))) and band together…
Shut down the Internet, Bette Midler is the queen of trolling! The storied singer revealed to People that she named the chickens in her upstate New York home after the Kardashian sisters but, alas, tragedy struck a few years ago when Kim died of a yeast infection — MIC DROP. “We have the Kardashian sisters,…
Neo-Nazis have developed a way to surreptitiously mark the presence of Jews on social media in order to alert others to their identity, coordinated attacks, anti-Semitic vitriol, threats and images of concentration camps and Hitler. Known as the “echo,” the symbol consists of three parenthesis around a Jewish person’s name, for example, (((Efrem))). According to…
A latex fat suit, a double chin and some ridiculous anti-Semitic remarks had Larry David bellowing with laughter on Tuesday night’s premier of “Maya & Marty,” a new NBC variety show helmed by Maya Rudolph and Martin Short. Sitting down for an interview with Short’s famous SNL character, cheeky celebrity reporter Jiminy Glick, David was…
For fans of MTV, there is no reality show more Millennial than “Catfish,” where naive young adults seek the help of host Nev Schulman to track down people they are in online relationships with, but who they have never met. The show takes itself very seriously. Amy Schumer does not. Schumer’s “Inside Amy Schumer” parody…
In honor of Fleet Week and just days before Memorial Day, Adam Sandler joined Jimmy Fallon for a twang-infused performance of “Friends on All Bases,” a patriotic parody of “Friends in Low Places,” to an audience full of servicemen and -women. View post on imgur.com Donning cowboy hats as a banner of the American flag…
“Game of Thrones” fans, beware. Spoilers below. Just when you thought HBO’s “Game of Thrones” couldn’t possibly surprise viewers any more, Jewish producers D.B. Weiss and David Benioff go ahead and kill off Hodor, perhaps the sweetest, most harmless character in the show’s history. For years, the two have been unapologetically decapitating, dismembering, drawing, quartering,…
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