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.
During a promotional stop on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” for his new movie, Rob Reiner got into a heated debate with hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski about the media’s role and responsibility in covering Donald Trump’s run for office and the role of journalists in holding the GOP presumptive nominee accountable for his policies. “Since…
It seems Bar Refaeli’s new swimwear line is just too risqué for Israeli television. The Second Authority for Television and Radio, which controls Israeli TV and radio advertisement, deemed Refaeli’s new ad campaign for her swimsuit line with Hoodies to be too racy and inappropriate for broadcast. The authority has ordered the company to make…
Fourth grader Diana Zorek has a pretty cool story to tell her friends when she goes back to school after spring break. The 10 year old from the Upper West Side of Manhattan just sang “Blinded By the Light” as a duet with Bruce Springsteen as 18,000 fans looked on and cheered at the Barclays…
April 29 is Jerome “Jerry” Seinfeld’s 62nd birthday and this Brooklyn-born comedian has become a larger-than-life figure in the lives of all Jews. He’s gone from our favorite 90’s TV stand up comedian on nine seasons of “Seinfeld” to a chauffeur of sorts and coffee connoisseur on “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.” Without Seinfeld, we…
Prince’s former Jewish bandmates from The Revolution have announced plans for a reunion to honor the late rock legend, who passed April 21. A video announcement was posted on drummer Bobby “Z” Rivkin’s Facebook page and included all the former band members BrownMark, Bobby Z, Wendy Melvoin, Lisa Coleman and Matt Fink. “We have decided,…
Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s next role has him filling big shoes as Edward Snowden, the NSA contractor who leaked classified information about the U.S. government’s surveillance programs in 2013. Directed by Oliver Stone and co-written by Stone and Kieran Fitzgerald, Gordon-Levitt sports glasses and affects a deeper voice in an attempt to look and sound like the…
Amy Schumer opened up about her reaction and feelings in the aftermath of a Louisiana cinema shooting that killed two and injured nine during a screening of Schumer’s “Trainwreck.” In a candid interview and profile for Vanity Fair’s May issue, Schumer recalled the moment when she found out about the July 23, 2015 shooting from…
A recent episode of Russia’s “Dancing With the Stars” features a Foxtrotting Nazi dancing to Frank Sinatra’s “Fly Me to the Moon.” During the dance, actor Alexander Petrov plays a World War II German soldier chancing upon an abandoned piano as dancer Anastasia Antelava, playing a Russian woman, hides in fear. Within moments, Antelava disarms…
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