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Gideon Taylor addresses guests during a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the signing of the Luxembourg Agreement on reparations between the Federal Republic of Germany and Israel, in Berlin, Sept. 15, 2022. (Tobias Schwarz/AFP via Getty Images)
June 23, 2023, 8:16 am
Gideon Taylor, CEO of Jewish Community Relations Council-New York, to step down
Transition comes as the city’s Jewish community contends with antisemitic attacks and waning support for Israel among progressive officials
By julia GERGELY
Alex Edelman has embarked on several Jewish comedy projects during the pandemic. (Will Bremridge)
April 6, 2023, 12:23 pm
Alex Edelman’s very Jewish show ‘Just For Us’ heads to Broadway
Orthodox Jewish funnyman’s show largely focuses on his infiltration of a white supremacist meeting in Queens
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HaZamir singers at the 2013 Gala Concert. (Courtesy HaZamir via JTA)
March 19, 2023, 10:58 am
How HaZamir youth choir serves as ‘an on-ramp to Jewish life’
450 teens in 36 chapters across the US and Israel take part in the musical program focused on pluralism, community and Zionism; they convene this weekend for a concert in NYC
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Lily Brasch (right), who has muscular dystrophy, walks the runway at New York Fashion Week for the South Asian brand Randhawa, February 10, 2023. (Hilary Phelps via JTA)
February 15, 2023, 10:21 am
Orthodox model with muscular dystrophy makes history on NY Fashion Week runway
Lily Brasch becomes first person with condition to walk at a show, before dashing to nearby hotel to observe Sabbath
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Gail Nalven Fuchs's Hanukkah House in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn is decorated a week before the holiday and stays up a week after with lights, inflatables and other decor. (Courtesy via JTA)
December 25, 2022, 7:43 pm
NY family’s ‘Hanukkah House’ a glowing tradition of 25 years
Decades after her crestfallen son prompted Gail Nalven Fuchs to decorate her Brooklyn home to rival any Christmas display, the festive setup continues to delight neighbors
By julia GERGELY
A song and dance book in the Fordham University collection features the lyrics for 'Hatikvah' and 'For He's a Jolly Good Fellow,' and a 'Jewish dictionary.' (Julia Gergely/ New York Jewish Week via JTA)
December 4, 2022, 3:27 am
How a Catholic school amassed a treasure trove of Jewish artifacts from the Bronx
Fordham University, a private Jesuit institution with a growing Jewish studies center, has for 3 years been cataloging the once-thriving Jewish community in its neighborhood
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The Farber family, adhering to Jewish tradition even after the murder of their 4-year-old daughter Yocheved, continued to use this kosher cooking pot as a symbol of resistance, inscribed in Hebrew: 'In this pot kosher food was cooked in the Vilna ghetto for a girl who was taken to be annihilated.' (Museum of Jewish Heritage/ via JTA)
July 10, 2022, 6:05 am
NYC Holocaust museum uses personal objects to tell story of lives lived and lost
New permanent exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, entitled ‘The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do,’ emphasizes individual human stories from before, during and after World War II
By julia GERGELY
Yitzi Halberstam (left) spoke on the first panel of queer Orthodox highschoolers at JQY's Pride=Nachas event. (Courtesy JQY/ via JTA)
July 8, 2022, 3:25 am
‘Official-unofficial’ group serves NY Orthodox LGBT teens as schools waver on policy
Jewish Queer Youth provides a space for students at educational institutions often wary of sanctioning official Pride Clubs due to the biblical prohibition against homosexuality
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Rabbi Rachel Goldenberg holds a sign reading 'Health and safety is a human right' at the launch of the Cabricanecos Campaign in early March. (JFREJ)
June 26, 2022, 2:48 am
In NY, Liberal rabbis demonstrate for workers’ rights and a Hasidic company listens
Impromptu bargaining session part of a larger campaign that pairs left-wing Jewish activist organizations T’ruah and Jews for Racial & Economic Justice with Laundry Workers Center
By julia GERGELY
Bat Ella feels she is carrying out a lifelong dream of Friedman's — to perform her music in Israel. (Courtesy/ via JTA)
June 15, 2022, 1:34 am
Israeli singer Bat Ella brings her Hebrew versions of Debbie Friedman’s songs to NYC
The performer pays tribute to mark 11 years since the passing of her friend, mentor and fellow singer-songwriter whose vision revolutionized progressive Jewish prayer services
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Illustrative image: School buses lined up in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn on April 24, 2019. (Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images/JTA)
June 10, 2022, 8:20 am
NY Supreme Court sides with mother opposed to curriculum at son’s Brooklyn yeshiva
Judge upholds appeal by woman from member of borough’s Hasidic community who says her son was denied an adequate secular education
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Illustrative: A Shavuot learning session at the secular Bina Yeshiva in Tel Aviv, 2015. (Courtesy Bina Yeshiva)
June 3, 2022, 2:48 pm
Four New York spots for all-night Shavuot learning in the city that never sleeps
Originating with 16th-century Jewish mystics, the custom of Tikkun Leil Shavuot is now as much a part of the holiday as cheesecake. Here are some top picks for great classes in NY
By julia GERGELY
People stand in line outside Junior's restaurant to pick up food to go on March 16, 2020 in the Brooklyn Borough of New York City (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images, JTA)
May 29, 2022, 3:21 am
Iconic NYC cheesecake emporium Junior’s buys back guns to protect city it loves
Taking dozens of weapons off the streets, Alan Rosen says he was touched by small differences he felt the event made in the community
By julia GERGELY
Rabbi Rebecca Eisenstadt leads a bat mitzvah at The Plaza Hotel in November 2021. (Heidi Green/ via JTA)
May 28, 2022, 4:14 am
This private, on-demand ‘hot rabbi’ may soon be the star of her own reality TV show
Rabbi Becky Eisenstadt started b’nai mitzvah tutoring in her hometown in Bethesda, Maryland. Twenty years later, as more Jews skip the synagogue, she’s made it into a mini-empire
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Gary Brownstein, one of Acme Smoked Fish's production managers, started at the company in 1975. He is the grandson of Harry Brownstein, the company's founder. (Michael Harlan Turkell/via JTA)
May 25, 2022, 4:28 am
47-year veteran of Brooklyn’s Acme Smoked Fish celebrates his final ‘Fish Friday’
Gary Brownstein, 3rd-generation member of the Jewish immigrant family that founded the iconic company in 1906, has charmed customers with creative specials like Mango Avocado Poke
By julia GERGELY
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