Jennifer Siegel
By Jennifer Siegel
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Israel News Using Tiny Tools To Teach Children a Big Lesson
Politics has indeed made some unusual bedfellows for Matthew Hiltzik, a 32-year-old senior vice president at Miramax Films. A graduate of Fordham Law School, he quickly ascended to deputy executive director of New York’s Democratic party in the late 1990s, and went on to manage Jewish relations for Hillary Clinton during her Senate run, before…
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Culture A Room of Their Own –– Again; Exploring the Latest Revival in Girls’ Schools
As a veteran reporter who spent years covering California’s male-dominated State House, Ilana DeBare had long seen that women were disadvantaged in a system fueled by the late-night backroom deals of chummy male insiders. But when she started covering the state’s booming technology industry — a new field, allegedly driven more by innovation than by…
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Culture Stern College Turns 50
As a member of the second class of Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women, Ginger Socol remembers shopping on 34th Street, taking biology classes with a total of three students and living in a hotel suite while the dormitory was under construction. Most of all, though, she remembers her roommates — Orthodox young women from…
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News Young Donors Find Fashionable Common Ground
As half of the wildly popular pop/rock duo Evan and Jaron, Evan Lowenstein is accustomed to showering fans with autographs, complimentary CDs and concert memorabilia. But lately, he’s even been giving away his own jewelry — specifically, his “Common Ground” necklaces, which he says are a symbol of his love for Israel. “I can never…
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Culture A Spider’s-Eye View Of Your Sukkah
From his window perch in the living room of the Shapiro household, Sammy Spider sees fall leaves, scampering squirrels and the family busily erecting a Sukkah. When Sammy — the star of the new story “Sammy Spider’s First Sukkot” (Lerner Pub Group), with text by Sylvia A. Rouss and whimsical cut-paper illustrations by Katherine Janus…
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Israel News Piano Prodigy Realizes Her American Dream at Age 7
By any standard, Alice Burla is an accomplished musician. The pianist, a student at the Juilliard School of Music, has mastered difficult pieces by Beethoven and Chopin, won a national competition in Canada and performed at Carnegie Hall. But if such accomplishments would be a fitting reward for a decade or more of intensive study,…
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Culture Turning Living Rooms Into Schoolrooms
As a transplant from Philadelphia to Nashville, Tenn., Bill Bernstein resigned himself to a life with fewer opportunities for the perfect bagel or for kosher Chinese food. But when he discovered that his 9-year-old son, Viktor, was bored and unhappy at the only Jewish day school in the city, Bernstein refused to accept his lack…
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Culture Adult Education Courses Come to the Small Screen
Adults seeking to bolster their knowledge of Judaism have an alternative to attending adult education classes or slogging through a textbook: They can turn on their videocassette recorders. A number of Jewish courses are now available on videotape — as well as on DVD, compact disc and audiotape — as part of an adult-education series…
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