Character Shoshanna Shapiro (played by Zosia Mamet) on HBO’s ‘Girls’ must be the most famous Jewish character of the current TV season, and definitly marks a critical evolution of the Jewish American Princess stereotype. So yes, she still loves her clothes, her parentally funded apartment, and her Camp Ramah memories, the new JAP wants (and talks about) sex more than anything else, she’s more committed to her professional career and more complicated
October 12, 2012 07:12 am
WEST POINT: Alison Levine was born with a life-threatening heart condition, Wolf-Parkinson-White Syndrome, that prevented her... read more
October 5, 2012 01:30 pm
MARYLAND: The Maryland/Israel Development Center (MIDC) will showcase some of its best work at an event next week, In Our Own... read more
October 2, 2012 07:08 am
SOUTH CAROLINA- After discovering and admiring the art form of Micrography in Israel a few years ago, Rae Antonoff returned to... read more
September 20, 2012 12:27 pm
CHICAGO: Establishing an important new presence in the center of the country, American Friends of Tel Aviv University has... read more
September 17, 2012 04:44 pm
Here's a video and a short explanation that you can send to your non-Jewish friends about Rosh Hashanah. The Jewish New... read more
