Weekend Link Love: Fashionistas & A Picket Line, Om vs. Xanax, Pospartum Laws, A New Biofuel Source & the Target Backlash

Send to KindleTweet A Wall Street Journal article delves into the debate surrounding New York Fashion Week and its move to Lincoln Center, where unions are fighting fashionistas. The fashion week folks want to choose workers for setup but the union for stagehands says their members usually get jobs for work on the premises. Fashion [...]

Diaper Divas

Send to KindleTweet So apparently Ernie diapers aren’t enough. Try telling that to my niece, who shuns Cookie Monster and Elmo for big E. Apparently she should be moving on to denim. I think she’d prefer purple or pink diaps but that’s not in the cards. Yes, you heard it right, Huggies, a Kimberly-Clark company, [...]

Where are the Male Massage Parlors?

New ‘hood, new FWB. A situation like this, spurred by a dry spell, leads to the question: Why isn’t there a service for women called 1-800-dial-booty?

Beauty, Politics Collide In Dead Sea Line

Send to KindleTweet Shampoos, face creams and hand lotions worth €38,000 from the Dead Sea Cosmetics company have been destroyed by Palestinian custom officials, according to CosmeticsDesign. The destruction was imposed as a boycott and an act against products being manufactured in Israeli settlements. Investigations may also take place as a question arises whether the [...]

From Middle East To America: The Pomegranate Path

Send to KindleTweet From the Middle East and North Africa to Europe and America’s West Coast, pomegranate is a study in the range of agriculture and beauty. One of the first fruits touted as a superfruit, as kids, we knew pomegranate as the fruit that would stain our clothes. Hard to peel but delicious, I [...]

More Than Meets The Eye

Send to KindleTweet Spotted: Tribeca, New York Name: Sheron Age: 28 Hometown: Tel Aviv, Israel Current ‘hood: New York First language: Hebrew Other languages: English Job: Volunteer for Green Chimneys, an organization that performs animal-assisted therapy Ethnicity: Jewish Moroccan Favorite Condiment: Tehina Religion: Jewish Favorite Nut: Pine nut On your iPod now: Depeche Mode Dream [...]

International News January 12-18

Send to KindleTweet Germany Mulls $135 Billion Emergency Fund The German government is going over an emergency fund of up to $135 billion for struggling companies, The Wall Street Journal reports. In December, unemployment grew for the first time after 2006, reaching 7.6% of the occupation force, as the established information revealed. Last month, 18,000 [...]

Israel’s Natural Resources

Send to KindleTweet One thing that unites all women is the love of cosmetics. Israel is often overlooked for some of its greatest resources and we are not talking about technology; this time, we mean amazing mainstays from nature, including olive oil and pomegranates. Here we focus on two skincare lines sourced in the tiny [...]

Retail & Celebrity Charity News Week of December 8-14

Send to KindleTweet Carla Bruni-Sarkozy New Global Fund Ambassador On December 1, World AIDS Day, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy accepted a position as global ambassador for the protection of mothers and children against AIDS with The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Bruni-Sarkozy will draw attention to the needs of women and children infected with [...]

International News Week of November 17

Send to KindleTweet U.K. To Label Produce From Israel The UK has announced a plan to clearly label fruits and vegetables that are produced and imported from Israel, the Telegraph reports.The plan is meant to give consumers in supermarkets across the EU awareness that their purchases were giving financial support to the Israeli communities in the [...]

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