1. Baruch Yehudah Shemtov was born on September 22,1987 and is an American entertainment reporter, journalist, fashion designer, and entrepreneur.
16 Facts About Baruch Shemtov
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Baruch Shemtov was the entertainment Anchor on Good Day New York on Fox 5 NY WNYW from 2017 to 2019.
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Baruch Shemtov was the New York correspondent for Young Hollywood and a special correspondent for Extra.
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Baruch Yehudah Shemtov was born in Philadelphia on September 22,1987, to Chantzie Annette Waldman and Dr Menachem Mendel Shemtov, a urologist and son of Abraham Shemtov.
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Baruch Shemtov's family moved to Manhattan when he was a year old.
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Baruch Shemtov attended the Ramaz School, and by his senior year he had completed classes at the Fashion Institute of Technology and interned with Jonathan Adler and Ralph Lauren Corporation.
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When Baruch Shemtov was fifteen years old and "fed up with his school dress code", he turned a "very typical powder-blue cowboy bandana" into a necktie and wore it the next day.
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Baruch Shemtov graduated from high school in 2005 and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Harvard College in 2009.
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Baruch Shemtov attended Harvard Business School from 2013 to 2014 but took a leave of absence to pursue his media career.
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In 2003, at age fifteen, Baruch Shemtov pitched his hand-stitched prototype neckties to retailers and began working with a New York manufacturer to produce them.
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Baruch Shemtov's ties were modeled at New York Fashion Week in Bryant Park later that year.
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Baruch Shemtov launched a limited edition collection that premiered alongside his neckties at Kaje on Rodeo Drive in Los Angeles.
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Baruch Shemtov was a finalist in Russell Simmons' Race to BE entrepreneurship competition, and opened the New York Stock Exchange with Simmons in November 2008.
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Baruch Shemtov was featured in an episode of PBS's Biz Kid$ and closed the NASDAQ with the show in April 2009.
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Baruch Shemtov soon became the official New York correspondent for the network, and worked there through 2015.
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In June 2014, Baruch Shemtov began making appearances on WNYW- FOX 5 on Friday Night Live, the 5 pm and 10 pm newscasts, and other segments as a freelance reporter.