Renee Ghert-Zand
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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Life Q&A With ‘Camp Gyno’ Creator Naama Bloom
Meet the Brooklyn mom and entrepreneur behind “The Camp Gyno,” the viral video that has racked up almost 5.5 million views in just a couple of weeks, and drawn the attention of many major media outlets. The video was conceived as an introduction to HelloFlo, a subscription service for women’s periods founded last March by…
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The Schmooze Watch: Jerry Lewis’s Holocaust Movie
Footage from a never-released Jerry Lewis Holocaust film buried since the early 1970s was unearthed on YouTube on Saturday. The now-87-year-old Jewish comedic actor had promised that no one would ever see what he admitted was the “bad, bad, bad” film titled, “The Day the Clown Cried.” Seven minutes of footage from a 1972 Flemish…
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Life Disney Princesses Hit the Real World
Dina Goldstein’s “Fallen Princesses” is having another moment. You may have seen the collection of photographs when they debuted in 2009. But if not, don’t worry. In the last couple of days, Facebook and Twitter feeds have been stuffed with links to numerous articles and blog posts about the project. According to the Tel Aviv-born…
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The Schmooze Taking Another Look at ‘Suspicious Objects’
Moving around Jerusalem you always have to be on the lookout for suspicious objects, and to keep your distance from them. The Tower of David museum, however, has a collection of suspicious objects you’ll actually want to take a closer look at. Conceived together with “Threads,” a companion fashion exhibition, “Suspicious Objects” brings contemporary design…
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News Real Housewives of the West Bank
Mommy blogs are nothing new. The blogosphere is full of sites written by self-proclaimed happy mommies, designer mommies, vodka-drinking mommies, redneck mommies, “scary,” sarcastic mommies and even “stark raving mad” mommies. Now there’s a new kind of mommy blogger joining their ranks: the Israeli settler mommy. Mitnachalot Bareshet (Set on the Net), a new blog…
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Life Jane Katz, 70, Sweeps at Maccabiah Games
When Jane Katz said she was swimming for the gold at the 19th Maccabiah Games, she wasn’t kidding. The 70-year-old Masters champion, who has participated in every Maccabiah Games since 1957, came home to New York laden with 13 medals. Katz won each of the 11 individual Masters level swimming events she entered, and also…
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Food Taking a Bite of Converso History Through Tacos
Since 2005, Texas-born conceptual artist and former Heeb photo editor, Peter Svarzbein has been interviewing and photographing Latino families in the American Southwest who are returning to Judaism — believing their ancestors were Conversos, forced converts to Catholicism during the Spanish Inquisition. Svarzbein, 33, was looking for a way for more people to feast their…
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The Schmooze Feminist Fashion in the Tower of David
It’s a striking experience to enter a hall dating to the Crusader period deep in the bowels of the Tower of David in the Old City of Jerusalem, and to encounter mannequins draped in haute couture by some of the Israel’s top contemporary fashion designers. This is exactly the effect desired by new museum director…
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