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Sarah Lefton began her career as head of the hip micro clothing line Jewish Fashion Conspiracy "as a joke, really." Her day job as the marketing director of a summer camp in Yosemite National Park provided the inspiration. She made up a few T shirts bearing the slogan YO SEMITE for her own amusement, and, she says, "I kept getting stopped in the street." Within two days she had taken orders for 36 shirts, and a new career was born...
...also contributed to a fashion trend: conversation-provoking T shirts, hats and even underwear emblazoned with expressions of secular Jewish pride. At jewishfashion conspiracy.com you can find Lefton's pro-Semitic shirts. Jewlo.com showcases Julia Lowenstein's Hebraic spin on J. Lo, and at jewishjeans.com there are no jeans yet, but there are 21 styles of T shirts with slogans like NICE JEWISH GIRL. The new designers join the popular-clothing company Jewcy in celebrating "kosher-style fabulosity...
...this vogue now? "Younger Jews are accepting their Jewish identity and looking for ways to 'represent,'" says Jew.Lo's Lowenstein, 27. "With the alarming rise in anti-Semitism on college campuses, as well as in the national consciousness, young Jews are feeling that now is an especially important time to be forthright and proud of who they are." She notes, "Though it's hard to implement mass change through fashion, the shirts are a positive step toward more Jewish pride among the younger generation...
...shirts are also catching on with fashionistas who have no ties to the Jewish community. "I think that people relate to the words whether or not they are Jewish," says Daniella Zax, 32, who along with her two sisters designs the Rabbi's Daughters line. Its slinky tanks and T's with Yiddish phrases like YENTA and OY VEY are now in more than 100 stores and have been spotted on such non-Jewish celebs as Madonna, Christina Aguilera and Kelly Osbourne. Indeed, one of its best-selling shirts proclaims the wearer to be a SHIKSA--a non-Jewish girl...
...Change, the most ambitious new musical of New York City's rather dull theater season. Written by Tony Kushner (Angels in America) and partly based on his own childhood, the show is set in Louisiana in 1963 and focuses on the relationship between a black maid and the liberal Jewish family that employs her. At a time when musicals seem to be groping for ways to move beyond campy Broadway fluff without boring an audience to tears, Caroline is a breakthrough. It's a musical in an operatic style--Jeanine Tesori's score is almost entirely sung through--but with...