Entries from November 2007

Friday, November 9th, 2007

Yellow Pages: Circumcisers

Full Credits:Client: Isreali Yellow Pages
Agency: Young & Rubicam, Tel Aviv/Shalmor Avnon Amichay
Executive Creative Director: Gideon Amichay
Creative Director: Tzur Golan,Yariv Twig
Art Director: Shirley Bahar Copywriter: Hadar Orpaz,Eyal Padan
creativity-online.com

Friday, November 9th, 2007

A Living Lens: Photographs of Jewish Life from the Pages of the Forward

Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt (bearded), pictured with other cantors. According to the photo caption, Rosenblatt turned down a $100,000 offer from Warner Brothers to play Al Jolson’s father in The Jazz Singer, “because he believed it would demean his sacred calling. Nevertheless, he agreed to play a small part as himself, singing a Yiddish art song, […]

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

RAJE :Mismar Learning Program

Footsteps of the Prophets, Maimonides: The Laws of Body, Mind and Spirit with R. Ariel Bardichevsky
The Stairway to Heaven Workshop with R. Moish Soloway
RAJEusa.com

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Dvar Malchus Speaks Russian. Listen to Win: iPod nano, iPod shuffle, Shure e2c

More Info (Russian) www.Sominski.com

Monday, November 5th, 2007

Klausenberger Rebbe Reminisces Nazi Nightmare

The Previous Klausenberger Rebbe Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halbertsam ZT”L, survived the Holocaust and built the Laniado Hospital in Netanya, Israel. Here, in his own words, is the unedited version giving the reasons he chose to build a hospital.
via gruntig.blogspot.com

Monday, November 5th, 2007

A Modern Marketplace for Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox

“To make its Megadim brand of ultrakosher confectionary or its Strauss Mehadrin dairy products requires special facilities, because milk from only Jewish sources can be used.ut it is profitable. The ultra-Orthodox market is between 8 percent and 10 percent of domestic sales for Strauss, he said, representing about $73 million a year.”NYtimes

Monday, November 5th, 2007

Moishe’s Falafel 46th and 6th Street Food

Location: Usually on the corner of W46th and 6th Avenue
Haven’t been hitting the street food circuit lately but my coworker Joe told me about Moishe’s so we walked down and checked it out last Friday. He says there’s normally a mob around this food cart but today it was relatively calm. Probably because we got […]