Judith was born in 1938 and passed away on May 4, 2025 at the age of 87.

Age the age of 7, Judith fell ill with rheumatic fever and needed surgery on both of her legs, resulting in being confined to her bed for two years. This is where her creativity began to grow. She drew pictures of her surroundings, created small wearable yarn dolls, and paper doll fashions. Her entrepreneurial spirit started here, too: each day she sold her work on the sidewalk for a nickel.

In the 1970s, Judith was working as an artist, but when finances were low, she started hand painting designed on denim jeans and kaftans to sell at boutiques.

One day, she was at a local bagel store when she remembered her grandfather, who owned and operated a bagel store, used to draw funny faces on stale bagels for her Mom. Inspired by the idea, she asked the baker to make small bagels and drew faces on them, connected them with string, and sent her daughter off the school wearing the necklace.

Around the same time, she was gearing up for an interview with UPI about painting on denim. Her husband dared her to sell the bagel necklaces to Bloomingdales, and to everyone's surprise, he ordered one hundred of them! She was deemed "The Bagel Lady" and spent her days filling orders.

A Children's Editor from McGraw Hill invited her to lunch and told Judith they wanted her to write a children's book, and so "The Bagel Baker of Mulliner Lane," based off of her grandfather, came to be.

Her monopoly in the bagel fashion/book industry turned into a monopoly in the toy industry, too. She had Bagel happy Family of Elephantagel bagels and Pigagel bagels in plush designs, which led her to Knickerbocker Toys. There, she was encouraged to start investing toys.

Judith invented Puppet Sheet Theater, Bedkins, Beside Buddies, Treetures, Sweetie Pops, Baby Check-Up doll, and many many more toys for Hasbro, Mattel, and a few other toy companies throughout the span of her career. She's also written, illustrated, and/or developed 15 children's books and designed some children's bedding.

In 1986, she received the Hasbro Inventors' Hall of Fame Award.