Home > In Today's Issue - August 17, 2011

Spotlight on the Artist
---> Yonatan by Jean Designs

Sale of the Week
---> $10 off all Yonatan Collection jewelry

What's New at Jewish Gift Place
---> Michal Golan Evil Eye Necklace on TV!
---> New Navigation for easier shopping

Favorite Links
---> Interesting articles, videos, and blogs I've read

Risa's Wrap-up
---> Family vacation in Maine

Hi Everyone!

How is everyone's summer going? The weather has been beautiful here in New York. It's going too fast! Lots has been going on here at Jewish Gift Place, so let's get right to it!

Spotlight on the Artist
-->Yonatan by Jean Designs

THE YONATAN COLLECTION

I am very excited to introduce you to a very special artist - Jean - whose Hebrew name is Yonatan, the name of his Judaica collection. I met Yonatan in February 2011 at the Philadelphia Buyer's Market of American Craft. Yonatan, who is not Jewish, was a volunteer in a kibbutz in Israel during the 6-day war and lived in Israel for 3 years. Yonatan's incredibly beautiful Judaica collection reflects his deep love and passion for Israel and Judaism. With pride, he showed me the design that was carried aboard the space shuttle Endeavor in 2009 - The Chai Heart Necklace (see left picture). Check out his beautiful collection! Look for my interview with Yonatan in an upcoming newsletter.

Sale of the Week
----> $10 off all Yonatan jewelry

Now thru next Wednesday, August 24, get $10 off any Yonatan Collection piece. Enter YC11 at Step 2 of checkout to receive the discount.

What's New at Jewish Gift Place
----> Michal Golan Evil Eye Necklace on TV!

Leave it to Lana's 16 year-old daughter, Paige, to start a social media phenomenon! Lana and Paige were watching Real Housewives of NJ when Paige spotted Melissa Gorga wearing an evil eye necklace. Paige thought it looked familiar, and after rewinding the tape, she confirmed that it was a Michal Golan Evil Eye necklace that we sold! Paige quickly did a Google search to find blogs that wrote about the Housewives style. She wrote to one blog to let them know we sold the necklace and they linked to us! Then Lana contacted another blog and they featured the evil eye necklace! Then, we were contacted by www.dailyfashionista.com, and then Melissa Gorga wrote about it! Thanks to Paige's initiative, these evil eye necklaces are flying off the shelves! Check out Paige's blog post on this excitement!

----> New Navigation for Easier Shopping

Check out the new navigation on the website. We now have a horizontal nav bar with 5 main categories. We also put a slideshow on the home page with some of our favorite items being showcased.

Favorite Links
----> Favorite articles, blog posts, videos

• Latino Farming Community Commits to Judaism - The story of Edgar de la Pena,the Mexican founder of Congregacion Beth Shalom in Los Angeles. Edgar, who was raised Christian, is now a Jew by choice and leads a congregation of 60 who are totally committed to Judaism.
• 34 Life Lessons I’ve Learned in 34 years of Living -Last week I turned 45 which is one of those milestone years that deserves reflection. Now I just need to do all of Benny Hsu's life lessons.
• Do dogs get any cuter? Videos like these are why my kids are begging me for a dog.

Any interesting stories you've read this week? Please share! Send your links to news @ jewishgiftplace.com.

Risa's Wrap-up
----> Family vacation in Maine

After school was out, my mom, my sister, 5-week old Sophia, me and the boys drove to South Portland, Maine to visit my brother and his kids for 3 awesome days! It's no wonder why he moved from Brooklyn to Maine - it's beautiful there! My brother lives 3 blocks from the beach, and on one foggy day, we all took a walk to a lighthouse, which was a very cool walk along giant rocks to get there.

Have a great weekend!

Catch you in two weeks!

Risa Borsykowsky, Owner
www.JewishGiftPlace.com