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Q & A With Jewtopia Creators Bryan Fogel and Sam Wolfson

Amy Klein January 22, 2004

I\’m standing in the foyer of the Coast Playhouse in West Hollywood talking to Bryan Fogel, the co-writer/co-producer/co-star of \”Jewtopia\” — a play that parodies dating, JDating, interdating, rabbis, Passover seders, Purim, Chanukah bushes, bar mitzvahs, shofar blowing, other types of blowing, goyim, Asian fixations, synagogue memberships and, most of all, Jewish women and their overbearing mothers — when this overbearing Jewish mother shamelessly accosts Fogel outside his dressing room to peddle her daughter to him.

Look at Our Living Room!

Gaby Wenig July 3, 2003

They need to talk more! They are being too quiet!\”

That was the frantic, whispered assessment of Beverly Pomeranz, casting director for the new A&E series, \”Makeover Mamas,\” as she watched the reaction of Ross and Jennifer Misher upon seeing their newly redecorated living room for the first time.

Material Instincts

Gaby Wenig March 27, 2003

Every day before Dina Goldstein (not her real name) leaves the house to take her two young children to day care and herself to work, she grabs two bagels and two boxes of orange juice. After buckling the kids into the car, she gives them the bagels and the juice, and they eat breakfast in the car on the way to school.

\”I just don\’t have time to get them ready, myself ready and feed everyone before I leave the house,\” said Goldstein, who works as a religious day school teacher.

Like Goldstein, many women find maintaining a family and a job overwhelming.

Better With Age

Jane Ulman May 9, 2002

\”You\’re the oldest of all my friends\’ moms,\” my son, Danny, 11, tells me.

Like I don\’t know this. Or have a card for senior discounts or billions of cells that have lost their elasticity to prove it.

Hollywood Mitzvahs

Mike Levy May 3, 2001

When one person helps another person, it\’s a mitzvah. When 1,500 people from 30 different organizations join together to help out in over 50 volunteering projects, it\’s Temple Israel of Hollywood\’s (TIOH) Mitzvah Day.

Chinese Box

Gina Nahai April 26, 2001

So there\’s a fairy-tale wedding: a thousand guests in a flower-filled ballroom, a dozen violins playing Mozart, a grainy-voiced singer belting out an old Persian love song. The bride is 20 years old and ravishing, of course, but she\’s also blessed with charm and charisma, the kind of exuberance that turns heads and drags stares behind her. She\’s been breaking hearts since she was 14 years old and walked into a cousin\’s wedding in a frilly white dress and a wide lace headband. Now she dances on stage, next to the singer with the forlorn music, and the crystal beads on her wedding gown glow like fireflies in the dark.

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