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Dana Lerner is currently obtaining her master’s in magazine journalism from New York University. She is a recent undergraduate of the University of Miami in Florida, where she majored in advertising and creative writing. Dana has been published in Zink Magazine, New Jersey Lifestyle, New Voices and Recount and is interning at Cookie, a new lifestyle parenting magazine by Fairchild Publications.
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The World’s Largest Menorah, to be lit near Central Park, is an enormous steel beamed structure standing 32 feet high. Not only does it commemorate the historic miracle that Hanukkah celebrates, but it also offers Yidden metros a sense of New York City’s Jewish community at a time when it seems the entire city is festooned with Christmas lights and Santas.
Archived | Dec 7, 2005 (~706 Words)It is Tuesday night on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and seven young Jewish women have left their briefcases and Blackberries behind and are elbows deep in flour, mixing, kneading and braiding. They are learning to make challah, the traditional sweet egg bread served at Jewish holiday and Sabbath meals.
Archived | Dec 6, 2005 (~1077 Words)Shecky’s Girls Night Out is a five hour shopping event of up and coming designer names from across the country, with complimentary cocktails and mini makeovers all included in the admission price. Mixing alcohol with shopping — a girl could get used to this.
Archived | Nov 20, 2005 (~1217 Words)Leave your thoughts of the permanently tan WABC-TV weatherman behind. The four guys who make up the buzz worthy indie rock sound of Sam Champion are trekking across the country via van in promotion of their new album, “Slow Rewind.”
Archived | Nov 5, 2005 (~976 Words)It’s almost halfway through football season, and some women are totally fed up. But it’s not just “Monday Night Football” and weekend games that are making the sight of a Hail Mary pass unbearable. It’s fantasy football.
Archived | Oct 20, 2005 (~796 Words)Within NYU Hillel’s local, independent effort, 10 volunteers were sent to Houston to offer support and assistance to storm victims. What these student volunteers would learn is this act would spawn a greater call to activism and become a part of a larger process to repair the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina.
Archived | Oct 9, 2005 (~901 Words)A pizza-and-pitchers alternative to Miami’s South Beach.
Archived | Aug 26, 2005 (~880 Words)
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