Word: baruchism
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...bouncer at the door, and a nice-looking Umbria girl was taking IDs. Budding financier and publisher Fred L. Bronstein ’06 shifted his weight on the steps, and JetBlue student rep Ming E. Vandenberg ’08 stood behind him. A tie-maker named Baruch Y. Shemtov ’09 made calls on his cell phone. A long line of angry tomcats piled up behind them, their leader loudly wondering what the fuck was up with the line...
Take the feature on Baruch Shemtov ’09, a tie designer, who the magazine interviews in New York at “The Carlyle...a swank upper-east side establishment.” Author Danielle Sassoon ’08 is particularly impressed that “Baruch” (as he is endearingly referred to on second reference) has an in with the maitre d’—a term whose only accepted variant differs in its inclusion of a cirumflex above the “i.” Except that in the article...
...Spain Your story on the disaffection of young European Muslims suggests a parallel with European Jews. Despite centuries of racial, religious and social discrimination and economic deprivation, not to mention the pogroms and ghettos of the World War II era, Jews have produced philosophical, artistic and scientific geniuses like Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza, Felix Mendelssohn, Gustav Mahler, Franz Kafka, Albert Einstein and Marc Chagall - not suicide bombers. Jack Hoffmann Allerod, Denmark Your cover headline "Why Some Young European Muslims Are Turning to Extremism" makes a rather broad assumption. Aren't there any disaffected young Muslims in the U.S.? Aren...
...Kevin” (Baruch Y. Shemtov ’09), comically over-exaggerated in his quest for relief, breaches the unspoken bathroom rule of aloofness and asks the other man—who at first seems comparatively normal—for “help” in progressively outrageous ways. Raucous comedy, more pointed and risqué than in the other works, ensues. The result, however, was not overtly offensive but managed to make viewers just uncomfortable enough to succeed dramatically...
...Ramaz School in upper Manhattan, ties are part of the mandatory school uniform. At the age of 15, one student decided to spruce up the required garb by making his own. Now in Lionel, dress codes have been relaxed, but Baruch Y. Shemtov ’09 still designs and produces his own line of high-fashion neckties. In 2003, Shemtov spotted a light blue bandanna in his bedroom and decided to sew it into a crude but striking skinny tie. A novice at sewing, he sealed his loose stitches with iron-on name-tags leftover from camp...