In the late 1990s, Ecstasy was the favorite drug of the party crowd, and the Israeli mafia wasted little time staking its claim. Using strippers, elderly folks and Charedi teens as drug-running mules, a handful of Israeli ex-pats operated across Europe and the United States, and made a killing in the Ecstasy business.
The Special Committee of the Jewish Community Foundation (JCF), formed to investigate how the money manager for many of Los Angeles’ blueblood Jewish nonprofits lost $18 million with Bernard Madoff, released its findings and recommendations last week.
The premiere last Sunday of the second season of “In Treatment” on HBO marked a milestone in television history in both Israel and the United States. The acclaimed series is closely based on the Israeli hit, “Be’Tipul” (“In Treatment” in Hebrew), in which a conflicted psychologist treats a different patient in each of four episodes each week and visits his own therapist in the fifth.
“You can’t do that, Son,” a father dressed in a red bathrobe says to his son, who came home from school with a note saying he stole money from a classmate. “Why, if you want something, you have to earn it … where do you think we got this house from?
The Jewish Student Union renamed its national program for high school students the Jack E. and Rachel Gindi JSU this month, in honor of the Gindis’ support of the 7-year-old group.
In September 2004, Dove did something radical for a player in the beauty industry: it launched an ad campaign that didn’t feature the typical size 0 model. Instead, it featured real women who clearly defied the starlet-skinny chic that had come to represent the media “ideal” of the female form.
It may sound like an old wives’ tale, but Israeli medical researchers have discovered that the age-old stories about boys being more trouble are true — at least when they are in the womb.
The Passover seder has evolved and changed throughout the ages. Many of us might not know that the “four questions” were originally “three questions,” and one of the three — preparation of the paschal lamb — is no longer asked.
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