VIDEO: Matchmaker, Matchmaker – Shidduch and the Modern Yenta
Posted on 28. May, 2009 by Rachel Geizhals in Multimedia
MULTIMEDIA: A video by Rachel Geizhals explores shidduch and examines matchmakers and matchmaking in Orthodox Jewish society.
Want Fries With That? Adults Taking Teens' Jobs
Posted on 19. May, 2009 by Rachel Geizhals in Business & Economics, News Features
Working the counter at the neighborhood ice cream shop is not the most sophisticated or glamorous of jobs, and it’s one teenagers usually take. But early this year – for the first time in his five years as the manager of a Carvel’s ice cream shop – William Betancourt was fielding calls from grownups begging for a job that pays $7.15 an hour.
In the past, adults called from employment centers looking to place high school kids in Betancourt’s store. Now, they’re calling for themselves – and they’re desperate for income. “They were like, ‘Do you have anything?’” said Betancourt, who manages a Carvel’s in Forest Hills, a neighborhood in Queens in New York City. “They just wanted to work.”
