Sandy Eller – VIN News
A YouTube clip released three weeks ago by Kraft Foods in order to market a new gum features an eclectic group of New Yorkers dancing on the subway, among them a chasidic man.
The thirty one second clip which has received close to 10,000 hits, depicts a diverse group of people, including a Chinese woman, an African-American man with dreadlocks, a woman in a business suit, a long haired young man sporting headphones, and a chassidic man dressed in a long coat with a black hat and a long grey beard, spontaneously bursting out into song and dance, after one of the passengers on the train tastes the product, Trident Layers gum.
A spokesperson for Trident gum says that they have no knowledge of the religious affiliations of the actor dressed in Chassidic garb.
“Our intent in creating the spot was to show a diverse cross-section of people that you might run into on the New York City subway,” Melissa Batchilder, manager of corporate affairs at Kraft Foods told VIN News.
“An actor came to our casting sessions in Chasidic dress and that’s what he also wore for the spot. We are not aware of his religious background, and as a course of process, it’s not a question we would ask.”
Trident Layers is not a kosher certified product. For halachic reasons, COLlive is not showing the commercial.
How can a frum actor dance in an advertisement for something which is treif? Doesn’t he realize that to many Jews it looks like an endorsement? Isn’t this a halachic problem of maaris ayin?
Good luck and keep up the exciting work! Loved seeing you in the other commercials and tv shows! We love you in Chicago!
This actor is my cousin Roger Marks, and he is an actor, and he does keep kosher, and that is really what he looks like, 100% of the time! Love you Cousin!
But we need to keep in mind that this is no endorsement that Trident is Kosher, when in fact it contains gelatin which is treif
And I love him!
I find it to be ridiculoso
Been in many commercials and shows. Great guy, may he continue to be blessed
You have to live in LA
Yes, it’s Roger Marks, veteran television, movie and voice actor. He’s a frum guy but he’s not a Rabbi. He just plays one on television –
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0548952/
Check out his website:
http://www.nachumlist.com
No, there is no “s” in the middle. Roger can’t spell 😉
anybody who grew up in LA knows who this is.
Roger Marks.
he’s been in tons of commercials.
all his kids go to Chabad schools.
i think he’s the guy from Brasil that asks for tzedaka
let him do it they did something like this so many times and you only speack up now?!
thts pretty funny 🙂 good actor, though
No,it is not the soifer,Frenchman Daniel Dahan from CH
he is jewish, and from l.a…
He lives here in ch, from france i think
In PA, I went to a job in downtown at a major insurance company. The receptionist extended her hand as she greeted me. I apologized, explaining that my religious beliefs prohibit me from shaking hands with a non-family woman. She said, “Oh, that’s interesting. What religion are you?”
his name is Roger Marks
hes really not jewish
someone pls explain??
i think i know this guy lol
he looks real]]