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May 9, 2025, 12:19 PM

Zara, are you listening? Sweating the sweater

By the time you’ve had four daughters finish eighth grade at yeshiva day school, you’d think you’d know what they need to wear for graduation picture day. So when the moms of my fifth daughter’s friends asked for my expertise,...

May 3, 2025, 4:24 PM

A Stranger Dragged Me to Safety; It’s The Most Intimate Moment I’ve Had All Year

You know what really sets the tone for a great Friday? Being violently yanked out of your sleep and dropped straight into reality at 5 AM by a siren. That’s how my day started. I opened one eye, cursed...

Karin Kloosterman

Feb 20, 2025, 3:18 PM

How Algaeing is Revolutionizing Sustainable Fashion

Algae from the beach in Jaffa. Photo by Karin Kloosterman for Green Prophet

The fashion industry is one of the world’s biggest polluters, with synthetic dyes playing a major role in environmental destruction. Every year, textile dyeing releases over 200,000 tons of toxic chemicals into waterways, polluting drinking water, harming aquatic life, and devastating...

Elaine Rosenberg Miller

Jan 26, 2025, 11:56 PM

Museum of Natural History

I don’t know what overcame me but my hand shot up. I was used to raising my hand in class. I often knew the answer to the question, no matter the subject and loved to engage with the teacher. But this...

Karin Kloosterman

Jan 21, 2025, 3:06 AM

Sustainable fashion icon Stella McCartney works with Israel’s Balena to make fashion green

Balena slides, a prototype to demonstrate the material of circularity, fully degrades back to the soil. HANDOUT.

When Crocs first came into being, I had already owned a prototype pair of foam-injected slides from Italy that I bought at a fashionable shop in Tel Aviv on Dizengoff Street. I thought they were the best invention since...

Sep 29, 2024, 11:45 AM

Breaking Tradition: Hasidic Girl to Win the 2024 Miss Universe Israel Crown

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My journey to the Miss Universe Israel 2024 pageant has been both profound and transformative. I am honored to have made history as the first Hasidic girl ever to compete on the world's national stage of Miss Universe. Growing up...

Sheldon Kirshner

Jul 7, 2024, 4:25 PM

A Biopic of a Fashion Icon

Fashion designer/mogul Diane Von Furstenberg has been around the block more than once. "I've had a full life," she says in a new documentary now streaming on the Hulu platform. "I'm 76. I should be 300." In Diane Von Furstenberg:...

Kally Rubin Kislowicz

Jul 2, 2024, 8:55 PM

Say yes (please?) to the dress

Illustrative. 'Mazal tov' balloons. (public domain)

When will science explain why I can't speak Hebrew while feeling an emotion? Or while driving? Or while having eyes?

May 16, 2024, 7:58 AM

The Only Mountain I Can’t Climb: A Poem and Song

Dedication & Breast Cancer Awareness Charity This poem/song is dedicated to my hero and role model Angelina Jolie. Angelina is not only a fantastic actor, she's also a freedom fighter, highly respected diplomat, and human rights ambassador. I ask Ed Sheeran...

Apr 16, 2024, 12:20 AM

Good Weather for Fighting a War

It's fine weather for fighting a war no one but the Iranians and their proxy militias want. Putting the war aside for a moment, I'd like to mention that it's going to get pretty hot later this week as...

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