All the hot stuff from Broadway to MOMA
Demographers struggling to calculate the nation’s Jewish population may get some help from a group of New Yorkers out to market Jewishness as a hip lifestyle: complete with wardrobe. A new enterprise called Jewcy is selling T-shirts, hats and underwear branded with the bold "Jewcy" logo, in which the "W" is actually the Hebrew letter […]
Dreadlocks are a popular hairstyle among vinyl-spinning deejays. Kipas in this crowd are rare. Aaron Bisman wears both. The 22-year-old New York University graduate is scheming to make dreadlocks with skullcaps a more widespread phenomenon. When he’s not at the turntables, promoting artists at Ropeadope Records or teaching Hebrew school to seventh-graders, Bisman is cranking […]
Vitaly Komar, clad in all black, huffed up the stairs of the Center for Jewish History with a reporter in tow. “I like this place,” said the one half of an internationally known Russian artist team. “It’s like a club house, not white and antiseptic like most museums that can feel like a hospital.” By […]