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She's Filthy Rich, She's Naturally Blonde, and She Wants to Tell You How to "Keep Kosher"

I admit that I'm kind of at a loss here. I just don't know what to make of a Methodist-born billionaire publishing a "lifestyle" book full of kosher recipes.

Stacy Cohen is the wife of Israeli-born entrepreneur Mouli Cohen, whose "businesses have created thousands of jobs in the United States and generated more than $3 billion in stockholder value."

Born and raised in Texas, Stacy converted to Judaism when she married Mouli. Apparently, marrying rich and converting to Judaism made her an expert on all things luxurious and, um -- "kosher." Her book, the Kosher Billionaire's Secret Recipe, offers readers her very own, personal guidelines to living a "kosher life grounded in spirituality." In addition to the 50 recipes, the book includes a "total well-being nutritional program."

But wait, there's more! Most of the 224 pages (read: wasted trees) are actually big ol' photos of Miss Stacy, "wearing dozens of outfits from her collection of designer ensembles and jewels."

She poses in gorgeous settings that range from her Belvedere mansion to
Paris, India and other exotic locales. In one of the most provocative
shots, she wears a satiny bathrobe while standing above some of her
shoes, a boutique's worth of colorful, high-end heels that spill down a
staircase like sparkly spiked rocks on a river of deep-pile carpet.

What's going on here? Did Stacy miss the memo that Green is the new Black, and that the Imelda Marcos approach to shoe shopping is so last century? Could she appear any more out of touch? Go her for taking her new, kosher lifestyle so seriously, but really -- someone oughta tell her.



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Anonymous Coward


chutzpah: innate or learned behavior?

I love how, in one fell swoop, she's made herself a Jew, a billionaire, and an expert on being both.





Anonymous


This article made me

This article made me nauseous.  Stacy, the shallow shiksa, has the nerve to write a book about being kosher especially when she only "converted" to Judaism a few years ago.  I write "converted" in italics because it was probably a quickie Humanisitic Liberal phony Rabbi who did the "conversion."  Judaism is a fad for Stacy and she has no idea what it means.

Most people who convert to Judaism for marriage will only be a member of the tribe as long as the union lasts.  When she finds Mouli bonking a younger woman in the future she will go back to being a Methodist in a second.  I know of many cases of this happenning and it's very common after an interfaith divorce.  Mouli should've converted to Christianity.  Jews don't need an idiot like his wife claiming to be one of us.





gogityershinebox


Anon...I call BS

Was it the article or the book that made you sick? 

I think it obvious that the previous anonymous posting is not from someone Jewish, but someone who wants to make Jews look bad. Or just a crackpot...or both for that matter.

Does the book sound gaudy and revolting...yes?  Should she be attacked with such vitriol...no.  How does any of us know what is in her heart?

Might I add that if anon were such a good Jew, perhaps he/she should be observing Shabbat, instead of using electricity by posting on Jewcy at 9:07 PM on Shabbat.

Shalom!





jewlicious


Hmmm...

Stacy keeps a kosher home. Before going off on her, you really have to wonder how many people reading this post and feeling all indignant have a kosher kitchen. Most American Jews don't, so why the indignation? Now, we don't know under whose auspices she converted but any religious Jew knows that you're not really allowed to cast aspersions on a convert - I mean Anonymous dude? What if she was converted by an Orthodox Rabbi? Do you know what a huge aveirah you just made? And you commented on Shabbat you dumb ass - violating the Sabbath is worse than eating on Yom Kippur - I mean if you care about these things.

Granted, while I was a tad bit horrified to read about "...her deep-green formal dining room painted to match a splash of color in a Miro painting that hangs on one wall," I can't help but note that Stacy and her husband have philanthropic interests, it's a book that promotes a Kosher diet and that recipe for
Halibut Livornese with Spinach Mashed Potatoes was awesome. So all in all, welcome to the tribe Stacy!

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Anonymous


An evaluation

I actually received the book as a joke (My friend found it at a church sale for a couple of dollars).  In brief, the book is pretentious, ill-founded and completely idiotic.  I feel sorry for anyone who has wasted their money or time on reading <if you can call it that> such trash.  Stacy Cohen is a very insecure 'girl' who is trying to be someone she's obviously not.  I have more respect for maggots.  Please do us a favor Stacy and cut the BS and write something that people really want to read. 





yaakov


I'm with jewliscious. She

I'm with jewliscious. She reportedly had an orthodox conversion, so she's as Jewish as anyone here. She gives millions to charity. She keeps kosher. So she wrote a lousy book; that doesn't make her a bad Jew.





Anonymous


She's about as Jewish as the Pope and yaakov.

Given that most most contributors and readers on Jewcy are barely Jewish or not Jewish at all, this phony is definately about "as Jewish as anyone here."





Yaakov


Anon: Well I guess we

Anon:

Well I guess we agree that she is a Jew under Halachah, because I am as Jewish as anyone you will ever meet. I can't speak for the Pope.





ThorsProvoni


Would her Conversion be Rejected in Israel?

Do I care?

Israel needs to be dismantled.

BTW, no one has mentioned the issue of a marriage between a Cohen and a convert.

Anyway, Mouli Cohen seems completely uninvolved in Zionist activities while Methodists generally are among the American Christian groups more sensitive to the evil nature of the State of Israel.

As far as I am concerned more power to Stacey and Mouli Cohen.

BTW, Commentary has argued that wealth is a Jewish value. By Commentary standards, Stacey and Mouli must be super-Jews.

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