Alyson Krueger
By Alyson Krueger
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News How a Winter Fire Burned Down the Walls Between a Jewish Summer Camp and Its Neighbors
To get to Camp Ramah Darom in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, you drive up Interstate 85, North, out of Atlanta, the nearest big city, for almost an hour. Just a little past Peachtree Corners, you turn onto old U.S. Route 23. From there it’s 35 minutes or so, deep into the mountains,…
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The Schmooze Fashion Week: Calvin Klein’s Runway
Calvin Klein’s Spring 2013 line was on display last week at the New York Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. Klein has one of the most recognizable and profitable brands in the world, but he started off with very little. Born in the Bronx to Jewish Hungarian parents, Klein started his fashion line by opening a coat shop…
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The Schmooze Fashion Week: Ralph Lauren’s Runway
Yesterday Ralph Lauren displayed his newest collection at the New York Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. Lauren epitomizes the American dream, both in his preppy American clothing that proudly display the polo horse and rider logo, and with his own story. The designer was born in the Bronx in 1939 to Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants. His original name…
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The Schmooze Simi Polonsky’s Frum Fashion Week Picks
Simi Polonsky, an Orthodox woman living in Crown Heights, is an expert at turning runway looks into synagogue-appropriate styles. She grew up in Australia, where she was a personal stylist for several Jewish women, helping them find stunning clothes that meet modesty requirements. Now, with her sister Chaya Chanin, Polonsky is running Frock Swap, a…
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The Schmooze Fashion Week: Rachel Zoe’s Runway
Rachel Zoe, the celebrity stylist turned designer, showed her new line this afternoon at New York’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. Rachel Zoe was born as Rachel Zoe Rosenzweig in New Jersey. Although she has no formal fashion training — she worked at Gotham and YM Magazine before starting a career as a freelance stylist — Zoe…
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The Schmooze Fashion Week: Michael Kors’ Runway
Michael Kors displayed his newest line today at New York’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. The designer was born in Long Island, N.Y. to Joan Hamburger, a Jewish former model, and her husband Karl Anderson, a college student. His mother remarried when he was five and the designer later changed his name to Michael David Kors. Kors…
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The Schmooze Fashion Week: Tory Burch’s Runway
Tory Burch’s clothing was on display today at New York’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. Burch, whose mother is Jewish, grew up in Philadelphia high society. She attended the University of Pennsylvania and worked for many designers, including Ralph Lauren, Vera Wang and Narciso Rodriguez. She now runs one of the country’s most successful women’s clothing brands,…
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The Schmooze Fashion Week: Donna Karan’s Runway
Donna Karan showed off her Spring 2013 collection at the New York Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week this afternoon with the likes of Vogue editor Anna Wintour and New York Times fashion photographer Bill Cunningham looking on. Karan’s models wore a sophisticated, tailored silver dress with a cropped, matching blazer; a long, silver toga-esque dress, with a…
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