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.
Breaking up is hard to do. It’s even harder when your ex-husband compares being married to you to life in a concentration camp. Maybe we’re reading too much into this, but that’s kind of what Coldplay frontman Chris Martin said about his 12 year marriage to Gwyneth Paltrow. During a radio appearance on the Rove…
British actress Rachel Weisz has been tapped to play Deborah E. Lipstadt in “Denial,” a biopic based on Lipstadt’s courtroom drama with David Irving, who sued her for libel when she accused him of being a Holocaust denier. Adapted for screen from Lipstadt’s book, the North American rights to the movie were bought by Bleecker…
The Fat Jew, meet Karma. Karma, meet The Fat Jew. In a classic taste-of-his-own-medicine scenario, a Twitter user has uploaded every page of the Josh “The Fat Jew” Ostrovsky’s new memoir, “Money Pizza Respect.” Ostrovsky famously came under fire this summer for “curating” his popular Instagram account with unattributed memes and jokes created by other…
Sometimes things that start as jokes grow to be legitimate ventures. Cough, Trump, cough. Same can be said of , comedian Nathan Fielder’s new outerwear company the proceeds of which go toward Holocaust awareness. No, we’re not joking. And neither are the celebrities that have taken a real liking to the quality of Summit Ice…
Can the liquid velvet sounds of Kenny G halt an impending conflict between China and the United States? John Oliver thinks so. On Sunday night, the “Last Week Tonight” host described increasing tensions between China and the U.S. over the former’s efforts to claim a disputed region near Vietnam in the South China Sea. Enter…
Toymaker Neal Hoffman has four words for Jewish parents facing the “December Dilemma” of Christmas envy: Mensch on a Bench! Hoffman, the man behind the Mensch on a Bench, has partnered with Office Depot’s popular Elf Yourself app to “put some Funakkah in Hanukkah.” The app allows users to input their face onto that of…
Giving a new meaning to “next year in Jerusalem,” the body of a 80-year-old deceased woman who wished to be buried in Israel was packed and shipped from Moscow to Tel Aviv. In a cardboard box. The Foreign Ministry said the woman had been dead for 11 days when her body arrived at Ben Gurion…
Is Adam Sandler the Jewish John Wayne? Meh, not quite. Netflix released the trailer for “The Ridiculous 6” just months after Native American in protest of the movie’s racist and steryotypical portrayal of their culture. The first look at the trailer doesn’t include any of the terrible lines like “I put my pee-pee in your…
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