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Nathan Chavin, Jewish ad exec who wrote raunchy country western hit, dies at 78

JTA — In a 30-plus-year career in advertising, Nathan Chavin wrote everything from signs on construction site scaffolding to classified ads to...

Jon Kalish

JTA — A three-minute trailer teases a new reality show called “Unseen Housewives,” and features women describing their experiences as child...

New York Jewish Week — In 1955, a group of musicians gathered in a Manhattan recording studio and committed to tape 16 tunes. When the LP,...

NEW YORK JEWISH WEEK — In the Yiddish classes Mikhl Yashinsky teaches for the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the Workers Circle, he begins...

New York Jewish Week — The Geiks weren’t your typical Bronx working-class Jewish family. The father ran a mob-protected trucking company in...