Meyer Lansky had dreams too…
“People can be nondenominational, practicing orthodox or in between,” says Alex Hirschkind, JewEL Chair. “It’s about building a community, it’s about making friends and connections. Vegas is so transient, and this helps make it feel a little smaller and offers a piece of home.”Las Vegas Jews [via Tablet]
She says this to me and to the blonde I noticed earlier, who had spent the evening perched on a barstool with her legs crossed. A sweet 25-year-old, Nicole Gabrielle Bruno [pictured above] is a journalism student at UNLV as well as an aspiring actress.
Bruno, who comes from a non-practicing Christian family, tells me she decided to convert to Judaism after having dreams for years about becoming Jewish.
“I dreamed about being Jewish, so for me, it’s a big deal. I’m literally following my dreams. I started having [the dreams] three years ago and one and a half years ago I began listening to my reoccurring dreams,” says Bruno.
Foster introduced Caroline and I to one of his shady BBYO acquaintances now running god-knows-what at the Hard Rock. He was going to get us all into the Asher Roth show but Foster was wearing shorts. Yeah.