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Stephie Grob Plante
David Keyes, left, and Robert Bernstein, the brains behind Advancing Human Rights. (courtesy)
April 21, 2015, 4:32 pm
Google wants to bring out the digital activist in you
Advancing Human Rights attempts to open closed societies and crowdsource aid for dissidents with new hi-tech platform
By Stephie Grob Plante
Yael Grobglas arrives at the AFI Awards at The Four Seasons Hotel on Friday, Jan. 9, 2015 in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
March 1, 2015, 10:03 pm
‘Jane the Virgin’ lets Israeli actress strut her evil stuff
Returning to the small screen March 9, the surprise Golden Globe-winning telenovela is Yael Grobglas’s breakout Hollywood role
By Stephie Grob Plante
Iliza Shlesinger in the Netflix Original 'Iliza Shlesinger: Freezing Hot.' (Lisa Higginbotham © 2014 Netflix, Inc.)
January 21, 2015, 12:41 pm
Sexy ‘comedy beast’ makes it to the Netflix cool kids’ table
Proud Reform Jewish funny lady Iliza Shlesinger’s aggressively honest act is the darling of men, and their dates
By Stephie Grob Plante
NPR's funny lady Ophira Eisenberg (Vanessa Lenz)
January 21, 2015, 12:52 am
Comedian gets start by growing up called Ophira in Calgary
NPR’s Ophira Eisenberg uses her insider-outsider status to get perspective — and laughs
By Stephie Grob Plante
B&H, New York City's most popular camera store, is run by Orthodox Jews and shuts down for Shabbat. (YouTube screenshot)
January 15, 2015, 3:28 am
NYC electronics store earns gelt with Orthodox business model
Satmar Hassid owned B&H offers great prices and expert salesmanship — with a dose of Old World inequality
By Stephie Grob Plante
Pretty potty mouthed Jessi Klein appears on Comedy Central. (courtesy: Comedy Central, CC.com)
December 18, 2014, 11:29 pm
How a nice Jewish girl became comedy’s ‘dirty nerdy’
Jessi Klein, head writer on Comedy Central’s ‘Inside Amy Schumer,’ discusses her role as a link in the long chain of funny Jewish women
By Stephie Grob Plante
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