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.
Reality television star and high powered real estate agent, Matt Altman, filed for — and received — a restraining order against a man he says claimed to “hate all Jews” and threatened to kill him. TMZ reports that court documents indicate Altman was granted a restraining order against leading Los Angeles-based dermatologist Alex Khadavi, who…
Jewish memes, they’re just like us! If you’ve spent any sort of time online you know that memes, or humorous images and videos that are the Internet’s version of inside jokes, dominate Instagram. But did you know that many of the funniest and most popular meme accounts are curated by Jews? In an age where…
We are still recovering from the glory that is Hot Dudes and Hummus and now we have another random but delicious Instagram account dedicated to celebrities on sandwiches. The brainchild of Los Angeles-based artist Jeff McCarthy, the prints feature watercolors of caricatured celebrities sitting on top of many different types of sandwiches and are available…
We have some pretty, pretty, pretty good news: Larry David is coming back to HBO with a whole new season of “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” The cable network announced plans for a ninth season of the award-winning show, five years after the last episode aired in 2011. We tried, but we just can’t contain ourselves. “We’re…
Twelve years after the contentious “The Passion of the Christ,” Mel Gibson is ready for a sequel. Academy Award nominated “Braveheart” screenwriter, Randall Wallace, revealed to The Hollywood Reporter that he and Gibson are in the early stages of a follow-up to the 2004 film that will focus on Jesus’s resurrection. “I always wanted to…
What do we have to do and who do we have to pay to have Martin Short stay in character as Jiminy Glick forever and ever and ever? Fresh from his Larry David fumble, television’s rudest celebrity reporter sat down with Canadian Jewish rapper Drake on Tuesday night’s episode of “Maya & Marty,” and much…
British funnyman Sacha Baron Cohen has signed on to play the classic 1934 comic book illusionist “Mandrake the Magician.” Based on Lee Falk’s newspaper comic strip of the same name, Variety reports that Cohen will play the mysterious Leon Mandrake, a magician that uses hypnotism to fight villains, “gangsters, mad scientists, extraterrestrials and characters from…
“Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” is back, so grab your caffeinated drink of choice and, as the tagline promises, settle in for a “concentrated cup of comedy.” The eighth season of Jerry Seinfeld’s Emmy nominated ode to comedians will feature Judd Apatow, Margaret Cho, Jim Gaffigan, Lorne Michaels, John Oliver and J. B. Smoove. Apatow,…
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