About Jeanette

Author with David Gold of Why Should I Care? Lessons from the Holocaust, a book for young adults, Jeanette Friedman is a freelancer who is Director of Communications for the North American Council of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews and editor of Together, for the American Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants. A writer, editor and artist, who contributes to The Jewish Standard, www.newjerseynewsroom.com, and AOL. She is the New York Bureau Chief for the San Diego Jewish World, and also contributed to the new edition of the Encylopedia Judaica, the JDCEurope website, as well as letmypeoplegrow, and other sites. Ms. Friedman is a consultant for the Auditory Oral School of New York, and is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists.For 14 years, 1990-2004, as executive editor of the Jewish magazine for the power elite, Lifestyles, she profiled such people of accomplishment as Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Steven Spielberg, Carl Sagan, Stephen J. Gould, Sumner Redstone, Donna Karan, Ralph Lauren, the Munkacser Rebbe and Robin Williams, among hundreds of other celebrities, movers and shakers.In that capacity, Ms. Friedman was also responsible for encouraging and implementing the digitization of the publication in the early 1990's, making it cheaper and easier to produce. She was responsible for creating a stable of freelance writers, giving assignments, working with the art directors and generating all the material inside the book, except for ad pages.Ms. Friedman has also edited and published books, nursing some of them from handwritten manuscript to the printed page in hardcover edition.Among them are:A Candle in the Heart: A Memoir by Judith Alter Kallman coming out in September 20011, which has already received outstanding reviews.Nations United: How the UN Undermines the West by Dr. Alex Grobman. Balfour Books, 2006The Simple Girl by Josh Flagg (as seen on Bravo's Million Dollar Listings)My Life My Way: The Extraordinary Memoir of a WWII Partisan in Poland by Eta Chait Wrobel, The Wordsmithy with YIVOStrictly Business: A Holocaust Memoir by Roman R. Kent, Treasurer of the Conference on Material Claims Against GermanyLala: The Touching True Story of a Boy and his Dog by Roman R. Kent, Teacher's Discovery.comBattling for Souls by Dr. Alex Grobman, Ktav Publishing, Aug. 2004.The book has received rave reviews from the two battling agencies it covered: The religious organization, The World Agudath Israel, via Rabbi Nisson Wolpin, editor of The Jewish Observer, and from Steven Schwager, executive director of the secular American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.Promises to Keep by Ernest W. Michel, Barricade BooksNow in its sixth printing, it has sold more than 25,000 copies over 10 years and is still selling. It earned Michel an honorary doctorate in the Humanities from Lehman College of the City University of New York, and he donates all proceeds from his book to the UJA/Fed NY. The Michel/Kaller Historical Judaica Exhibit-the Birth of Two Democracies, is traveling the U.S., and continues to sell more of his books.Living UJA History by Irving Bernstein, JPS . Friedman replaced the author's editor, Dr. Moshe Davis, who founded the Avraham Hartman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The book is used as a textbook at the Brandeis University Max Fisher and Irving Bernstein School of Jewish Leadership. Mr. Bernstein died soon after the book was published.For the Bertelsmann Holocaust Memoirs Project, under the auspices of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, she edited the critically acclaimed Journey Through the Inferno by Adam Boren, and Legacy and Redemption: A Life Renewed by Joseph Tenenbaum, and others.Upon Our Doorposts by Dr. Belle Rosenbaum.A deluxe coffee-table book about mezzuzot. Four-color, coated stock, hundreds of pages, edited and produced with her partner, Phil Sieradski, for Dr. Rosenbaum, who earned her doctorate on the research for the book.Teach Us Count Our Days by Nathan Katz.The book was published in November 1999 by Sam Bloch and Cornwall Press. It is doing very well as a Holocaust education supplement in many high schools in America and, since being translated into Lithuanian, is compulsory reading in high schools there.The Emperor of Ice Cream by Rose Mattus with Jeanette Friedman, The True Story of Haagen Dazs Ice Cream, was privately published in 2003 for Mrs. Mattus.Ms. Friedman wrote, edited, typeset and published the book, from manuscript, and research to the production of the hard cover book. She also marketed the book for Mrs. Mattus.In the mid-80's, Friedman worked as the advertising director and in-house writer for Edrei Communications, the company that produced Tiger Beat and Right On! magazines. There, she wrote three wildly popular books: Rock Hudson Story of a Giant, The Miami Vice Scrapbook and a book about the original Cosby Show. These were all written in-house and sold, via mail, approximately 100,000 copies each to movie and television fans in the 9-16 age group.Ms. Friedman also authored and/or edited three popular books about Manhattan. New York Nights, and New York's Best Places, published by Free City Books and distributed by HarperRow in the mid-80s, and The Good Times Guide to NYC and Vicinity.As an artist who earned her BA in art history and English, she worked at The Brooklyn Museum as secretary to the curator of paintings and sculpture in the late 60s and early 70s.She has worked in fabric, papier mache and wood. Influenced since childhood by her mentor, Dr. Belle Rosenbaum, she is now creating unique and custom Mezzuzot. One of her works was been sold at benefit auction at Sotheby's.As a community activist, Ms. Friedman has made a difference in Jewish family life by calling attention to issues concerning women and children. She wrote the article, Our Dirty Little Secret is No More for the Shma Journal, which put the issue of Jewish domestic violence on the front burner.She founded Second Generation North Jersey, in February 1980, to educate people about the lessons of the Holocaust. She is one of the founders of the International Network of Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, and founder of an Internet group that exchanges information about current events, the Holocaust, character development in children and multicultural and ethnic understanding. As chairman of The Brenn Institute, she works on programs to rekindle the flames of decency and ethics among people. As a volunteer and vice-president of the America-Bosnia Cultural Foundation, worked on the goal of bringing mutli-cultural understanding to all populations, and introduced Amb. Richard Holbrooke at the Foundation's inaugural event.

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