Lisa Keys
By Lisa Keys
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Breaking News Danger Mouse And The Music Of The Resistance
NEW YORK (JTA) — Let’s imagine, for a moment, that the Nazis won World War II and occupied the United States. If that had happened, what would postwar American pop music have sounded like? Would music have even been created in the forms we know today? Those are just a few of the questions the…
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Breaking News New York’s Iconic Katz’s Deli To Open Brooklyn Outpost
NEW YORK (JTA) — Katz’s Delicatessen, a staple on New York’s Lower East Side since 1888, confirmed the news reported by the Forward in October, that it is opening its first outpost — in downtown Brooklyn. The old-school deli, famous for the legendary “When Harry Met Sally” scene “I’ll have what she’s having,” will open…
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Breaking News rag & bone Hawks Trendy ‘Ponchos’ Inspired by Jewish Prayer Shawls
(JTA) — Apparently, everything old is new again — again. In recent months, fast fashion retailers Old Navy and H&M both made waves on social media by selling items that looked remarkably like a tallit, or traditional Jewish prayer shawl. And now, high-end hipster label rag & bone is hawking its “Ines Poncho,” a wool-blend garment…
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Life ShayTell Brings World of Jewish Wigs to Social Media
(JTA) — First there was “Tinder for bras.” Now there’s a Yelp for sheitels, the wigs worn by many married Orthodox Jewish women. ShayTell may be the first-ever online customer review site for wigs. It’s certainly the most cleverly named. And if you’ve never considered the demand for such a site, consider this: When was the…
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Life How Start-Up Nation Is Crowdsourcing the Answers to All Your Bra Woes
(JTA) — They say the best stories happen when a writer gets pushed out of his or her comfort zone. Since the “they” in this case was my editor, this is how I found myself readying to post a topless photo of myself online — all in the name of good journalism. But this isn’t…
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The Schmooze 5 Jewish Moments From Jill Kargman’s ‘Odd Mom Out’
(JTA) — Bravo’s newest sitcom, which premiered Monday evening, stars Jill Kargman as Jill Weber, a sassy Jewish woman who marries into a blue-blooded Upper East Side family. The show, which is based on Kargman’s 2007 book, “Momzillas,” is hitting the airwaves just as another book about wealthy Upper East Side moms, “Primates of Park…
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News Dressed To Impress
One look at Isacco Azra, and it’s pretty obvious that he’s a more than suitable public relations man for his single-label clothing shop, Eredi Pisanò. With a relatively fluent command of English, the Italian businessman clearly loves his label’s high-end men’s clothing. Showing a reporter around his store on Manhattan’s Madison Avenue, he excitedly folds…
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Culture Sunrise? Sunset?
Jewish culture in Miami Beach: a faded memory, or something that is alive and kicking, though occasionally interrupted by bursts of absurdity? Two new programs — one upcoming on PBS, the other in constant reruns on VH1 — offer opposing views of the state of Yiddishkeit in south Florida’s glitziest strip of sand. “Where Neon…
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