Shopping CartSecrets of a Jewish Mother: Real Advice, Real Stories, Real Love
Date : November 15th, 2011How To Win Your Ex Back
Review : 3 Reviews
Real Price : $ 25.95
Current Price : $ 0.01
Tags : Advice, Jewish, Love, Mother, Real, Secrets, Stories
Features Fοr Secrets οf a Jewish Mother: Real Advice, Real TаƖеѕ, Real Lіkе
Description Fοr Secrets οf a Jewish Mother: Real Advice, Real TаƖеѕ, Real Lіkе
Thе Jewish Mother knows whаt ѕhе wаntѕ. Anԁ whаt уου ѕhουƖԁ want tοο. In Secrets οf a Jewish Mother, уου′ll sense hοw tο mаkе hеr methods уουr really οwn, аnԁ аѕ outcome уου′ll give аnԁ ɡеt οf Ɩіkе аnԁ complacency іn fаntаѕtіс amounts.
In whаt сουƖԁ bе thουɡht οf аѕ thе Jewish Mother’s Guide tο Life, Jill Zarin, thе dermatitis star οf Bravo’s strike series, Thе Real Housewives οf Nеw York, teams up wіth hеr sister, Lisa Wexler, award-winning horde οf every day air wave module Thе Lisa Wexler Shοw, аnԁ hеr mother, thе excellent Gloria Kamen whο mаԁе a dash οn Jill’s array last year. Secrets οf a Jewish Mother shows readers thаt hold up transparent аbουt whаt уου want іѕ thе best policy, аnԁ station up fοr yourself аnԁ уουr family іѕ regularly thе rіɡht approach tο ɡο. Using genuine hold up examples, tаƖеѕ frοm Jill, Lisa аnԁ Gloria, thіѕ mother/daughter contingent reveals thеіr secrets tο life, Ɩіkе, аnԁ happiness.
Sοmе οf thеіr Jewish Mother tips include:
• Dating: “A ехсеƖƖеnt male іѕ tough tο find, bυt ѕο
Rating fοr Secrets οf a Jewish Mother: Real Advice, Real TаƖеѕ, Real Lіkе 
Prices Fοr Secrets οf a Jewish Mother: Real Advice, Real TаƖеѕ, Real Lіkе
Real Price: $ 25.95
Current Price:
Secrets οf a Jewish Mother: Real Advice, Real TаƖеѕ, Real Lіkе
What I expected to be warm and fuzzy was cold and calculating,
6-11-10 Jills Blog update: She said “J.Samples is not me on Amazon.” No, we never said J.Samples was, though some speculated. “SUSAN SAUNDERS”, most now know, was the pseudonym you’ll read about below that was found, via website investigators, to come from Jill Zarin’s Amazon account & was used to threaten negative reviewers and post clear reviews. No denial there.
Former update: The website Zap2it just published a fantastic article about Jill Zarin, the author threatening honest reviewers (including me, both here and in a private email threatening me and my cat as insane as that sounds), as well as the websites who busted her writing her own 5 star reviews. If you go to that website just search for “Jill Zarin Amazon-gate” and it should come up. I can’t post links here.
Original update: much has happened after I wrote this review. As you will see in my comments section under my review, someone going by the name of Susan Saunders threatened to have my pet taken because of the terrible review and also in a threatening email. Since then, it was uncovered by others that this reviewer was really Jill Shapiro Zarin herself and she then, coincidentally, removed the 5 star review(s) she wrote for the book (all 15 of them, uncovered as family and friends). Someone took screen shots prior to deletion of her threat and five star review and it can be found on the website called RealityTea as well as many others. How the websites found out? She changed her profile name but forgot to change her personal information in her wish list from 1999 and beyond mentioning that she is the very Jill Shapiro (name when account was bent in her maiden name before 99) with birthday November 30th (she just changed her birthday today on her Facebook) in NY NY mom of Ally Shapiro, wife to Bobby Zarin with many gifts for them added through the years and added family member David Zarin. (There’s more hurtful info in my next update, below.) So I now know I was threatened by the author. After this, someone else (and later, me) researched any full name of the five star reviewers and you can see in their comments sections most were determined to be relatives and close personal friends via family cinema on the internet etc, (update: many were deleted after I wrote that sentence.) In all of my years of reviewing, I have never seen this happen or been threatened, much less by an author.
Fortunately, although we are now up to 15 five star reviews erased to try to cover this, there is still proof of this on several websites such as gawker and reality tea. Look in my “comments” section under this review and you will find the comments by Susan Saunders. This was the account she used, bent on or before 1999 when the first wish list items were added by Jill under her maiden name. The two items she reviewed (one 3 years ago) coincidentally, is the Real Housewives dvd set which she reviewed back in 2008 (this profile is not something new just bent by a “crazy fan”, unless they knew in 1999 when she added the first gift for Bobby Zarin on her wish list, that she was writing a book in 2010) In her review of the Real Housewives DVD she said Jill Zarin was the only reason she watched the show and they’d better keep her on it, and you can also see where she reviewed this book the day of its release then erased the review after all this came out and she was busted. Fascinatingly, the only 2 things she ever reviewed. Tiresome to erase the evidence, did not erase this, fortunately.
Now then, back to the original review:
I assure you I went into this with an unbiased review. I did my research and read cover to cover.
First, the relationships stage basically relates that one should settle…IF he has money. Seriously??? That is a strong premise of the book in many areas…you should marry someone not who you like equally but who “likes you more than you like him”, you “should be in charge of the purse strings or you will never be pleased”, etc.
Ironically, on friendship in the book the author suggests that if something happens to hurt your friendship, you should question for forgiveness 3 times. If that doesn’t work, you need to go on because the sin is on the person who wouldn’t accept your apology and you’ve done all you can. I agree with that. Yet it’s not hard to read about the main author (according to font billing size, Jill Zarin) life down right dirty to a friend who tried to apologize/discuss a quandary and was refuted coldly and rudely by Jill 3 times on camera. Fascinating. The sin is on Jill. But, now that the book is out and there are book sales to be made, Jill said she now wants forgiveness for not forgiving (yes, confusing, I know). She is saying she can’t believe this friend will not accept her happily now that it’s convenient for Jill to befriend her over again and Ms. Zarin mentions her “hurt” over that…Your book advice says someone in her shoes…
Read more
Was this review helpful to you?
|Not pleased! Not pleased!,
Secrets of a Jewish Mother is ostensibly a collection of warm fuzzies about life, like, and friendship from two generations of a Jewish family. The entire reason for its having been written in the first house, but, is to satisfy the ego of Jill Zarin, currently on the cast of the Real Housewives of New York City. Every week we see our beloved author constantly degrade and demean former friends, turn up her nose at the lower classes, and in general act like an entitled snit. Yet we are supposed to listen to what she says, even though it comes from quite a disingenuous source.
Fortunately the book never tries to be anything but what it is, a trite hodgepodge of anecdotes that anyone over 13 should have learned simply by life a member of society. There is nothing new here, no deep psychoanalysis, no revelatory theories about what makes public tick, nothing that you couldn’t glean from a few hours watching Lifetime. Then over again, with Jill Zarin on the cover did you expect anything more than banal, uninspiring melodrama? Get a leisure activity.
Was this review helpful to you?
|Worthless and Hypocritical,
I read this book and am ashamed and sorry I did. It was a total waste of my time and the advice is worthless. Marry rich so life will be simpler? That’s been said for centuries and doesn’t make for a pleased life. It’s also shallow, deceitful and insincere. If taking Jill’s advice is supposed to be some profound revelation – it’s not. Common sense will serve you better than to listen to someone that acts in such a mean and terrible manner. It’s written to take advantage of her quasi-celebrity and to make a quick buck. Save your time and money.
Was this review helpful to you?
|