Mandel/Shultz Maven's Nest:
Movies-TV-Music-Jewish Women & 9/11 in Popular Imagination
Fiction & History Reading Groups
Mandel & PHAIR & Shultz Families
Reel Life--Flicks Pix: Nora Lee Mandel's Reviews with Annual Best Of the Years and Recommendations for
Chick Flicks; Hurrah for Grown-ups: Movies For the Middle-Aged At Heart; Movies as Medicine: Masterpiece Theater; For the Music (or Dancing) ; New York New York: It's A Helluva Town; Ogling Teens and 20Somethings; Noir Night Out; Popcorn Eaters; Romeo and Juliet Across the Ethnic Divide; Sci Fi and Fantasy: From A Distaff POV; And then there's Russell Crowe: The Movies (and more) 
Television: Remote Patrol: Nora Lee Mandel's Reviews and Commentary as
Quality Television; The Hall of Dames; The Hunk-o-Meter: Televisa Para Planchar; and, The Wire: Best Novel on TV Episode & Music Guide
Lilith Watch: Critical Guide to Jewish Women on TV, in the Flicks, and in Pop Music Nora Lee Mandel's Reviews and Commentary
Guide to Radio Not Just For Listening: Music Tips Nora Lee Mandel's Reviews and Commentary
And then there's RUSSELL CROWE: The Music (with commentaries on TOFOG)
The World Trade Center In Memoriam In Sight and In Sound: From New Yorkers' POV Nora Lee Mandel's Reviews and Commentary on the Interpretation of 9/11 in Photography, Poetry, Movies, TV Fiction, Song, and Literature -- and now the rebuilding and the wars being fought in our name.
The Grandfather of Spit- Memorial Tribute to Dr. Irwin D. Mandel: "The General of the Salivation Army." Plus "The Image of Dentists In Contemporary Culture" (with Nora Lee Mandel's TV, movie and even music additions)
What do you think? You get social academic brownie points for deliberately staying out of touch with your own culture?--Stephen King,
upon receiving the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation, 11/19/2003
Fiction Book Club: Annotated Contemporary Fiction Reading List
History Reading Group: Annotated Urban/Ethnic/Women's History Reading List
So Nora was inspired to make a pilgrimage in Chicago to Jane Addams's Hull House: 
PHAIR Family Circle Here's the history of our Cousins' Club, with the namesakes added who carry memories from the past to the present. Plus the reports of our recent meetings and links to our cousins' activities.
The Shultz Family Alpert-Epstein-Shultz’s (and we throw in Bellers and Millers from the grandmater's side) You can link to us and we'll link to you!
Harold M. Shultz, Esq., 
retired after achieving the goal of the Metropolitan Leadership Program we both matriculated at the former Bronx campus of NYU and now dispenses expertise as a Senior Fellow at the Citizens Housing and Planning Council:
The Impact of Multifamily Foreclosures and Over-Mortgaging in Neighborhoods in New York City
Out of Sight, Out of Control takes a detailed look at the housing policy circumstances around a deadly fire on 4/23/2011 at a three-family house in the Bronx. (In The New York Times 4/28/2011 he was quoted: "We need to make sure, in general, that foreclosure is a process in which properties are watched over and don’t get lost in the shuffle.”)
The Invisible Transformation: Turning Debt into Revenue about the impact of In Rem foreclosure and the Third Party Transfer Program on tax lien securitization in New York City (co-author)
Fallout from Roberts vs. Tishman (but it was in The New York Times 5/27/2010 where his commentary was: "This is the ultimate case about rich people with problems that I’m not sure we should care about.")
Debt Threat: Saving Multifamily Rental Housing from Zombie Mortgages and the follow-up Riverton Apartments Sold at Auction
Starrett City: Paradise Lost?
Court Rules Stuyvesant Town Owners Can Exempt Apartments from Rent Stabilization Despite J-51 Tax Benefi ts, Stuy Town J-51 Decision Reversed and Court of Appeals Delivers Final Word on Stuy Town.
Prevailing Wisdom: The Potential Impact of Prevailing Wages on Subsidized Housing
EPA’s New Layer of Lead Based Paint Rules and New Federal Lead Rule Around the Corner
Liquid Assets on water and sewer financing.
New York Times, March 8, 2009
Wedding of the Week legal commentary
He is still appealing. She is backing up the Supremes.
Avi, here workin’ in the 'hood (well, the lab’s fume ventilation system) catalyzing and celebrating achievement of his PhD, is post-ing at the Van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences of the University of Amsterdam.
(updated 2/2/2012)
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