Erica Schachne

Nov 10, 2024 | jpost.com | Noa Amouyal |Erica Schachne

At the table: Maintaining the massive 12,000-square-foot compound amounts to many thousands of shekels a month, and the owners are eager for a return to normalcy.

Sep 8, 2024 | jpost.com | Erica Schachne

“Bring Hersh home.”Since Oct. 7, this heart-rending message – usually with the 23-year-old’s black-and-white visage against a red background – has been plastered on every centimeter of Jerusalem. Posters on walls, banners in windows and on balconies, stickers on benches, scrawled in graffiti, Hersh Goldberg-Polin has not left our thoughts since he was taken hostage at the Supernova festival, after heroically saving others by fending off grenades.

Aug 15, 2024 | jpost.com | Erica Schachne |Judith Segaloff

In 10 months of difficult editor’s notes, this feels like a new level. How do we relay to you, our readers, why the Magazine is dedicating an entire special edition and months of planning to the subject “How we dress now”? How do we make it 110% clear that by gathering freed hostages, Supernova music festival survivors, soldiers, and first responders to model the war-influenced wardrobe in this issue, we are showcasing Israel’s singular strength and not, God forbid, engaging in exploitation?

Aug 15, 2024 | jpost.com | Judith Segaloff |Erica Schachne

War is olive-green, drab, gritty, and gray, but some designers are using their talents to transcend the gloom. In the fashion world, even wars manage to spark innovation and creativity. World War I saw the birth of Lanvin, Hermes, and Coco Chanel. Silhouettes went from hourglass to ramrod straight. World War II sparked functionality, austerity, bright red lipstick, and shoulder pads.

Aug 10, 2024 | jpost.com | Erica Schachne |Noa Amouyal

Years before Michael Dickson made aliyah and became executive director of StandWithUs, he began to see the writing on the wall when it came to anti-Jewish sentiment in his native London. He had just begun working as the director of informal Jewish education at the Jewish Free School in the English capital when two planes hurtled into and destroyed the Twin Towers in New York City.