“At first glance, the term “jazz rabbi” might seem incongruous, but the recent installation of Greg Wall, a well-known jazz musician, as the rabbi at the Sixth Street Community Synagogue, a modern Orthodox congregation in the East Village, shows that the porkpie and the yarmulke are not necessarily mutually exclusive. In an Oct. 31 concert […]
“IT dawned fairly quickly on Rabbi Motti Seligson and Shterni Bukiet Seligson that “one-bedroom apartment” was hardly a meaningful descriptor. They began apartment hunting last winter, soon after their engagement, assuming they could spend around $1,500 a month. After all, they were seeing Manhattan one-bedrooms listed for that price. Those, however, turned out to be […]
“A New York Times article trying to clear Mayor David Dinkins‘ tainted record, conveniently fails to mention his defining moment: the Crown Heights riots. By MICHAEL POWELL, New York Times
Do you really want to go back to the bad old days of Mayor David N. Dinkins?” more@COLLive.com
“Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men protest against the Israeli government outside of the UN Headquarters in New York September 22, 2009. ” DayLife.com
The Massachusetts secretary of state has reached an agreement with one of Bernard Madoff’s feeder funds that calls for full restitution for the state’s victims, plus interest. Secretary of State William Galvin said the deal was struck Tuesday, less than 24 hours before Fairfield Greenwich was supposed to appear at a state hearing. He said […]
A lawyer in New York has sued the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet following its article accusing Israeli soldiers of smuggling dead Palestinians’ organs.The Israeli lawyer Guy Ophir, based in New York, has submitted a civil action to the New York State Supreme Court, the TT news wire wrote. He’s claiming $7.5 million in damages against Aftonbladet […]
” “The men here, their families remain upstate, so they’re looking for some good, reasonably priced food, and for some company,” said Rabbi Shlomo Weiss, who broke bread one recent weeknight with perhaps a dozen other men in the basement of a large building on 53rd Street near 13th Avenue that is usually used for […]
“Major Jewish groups and rabbis from the three largest branches of American Judaism said Thursday that their relationship with Roman Catholic leaders is at risk because of a recent U.S. bishops’ statement on salvation. Jewish groups said they interpret the new document to mean that the bishops view interfaith dialogue as a chance to invite […]
“In 1897, Isaac Fromme, an office-seeker from the largely Jewish Lower East Side, punctuated his campaign palaver with Yiddishisms to refute insinuations that he was Irish. In 1922, Fiorello H. La Guardia was re-elected to Congress from East Harlem after he rebutted charges of anti-Semitism by challenging a rival to debate in Yiddish. La Guardia, […]
“The Hasidic section of Williamsburg, Brooklyn — roughly bounded by Division Avenue, Broadway, Heyward Street and the Brooklyn Navy Yard — is an anachronistic pleasure.” more@NYTimes.com
“Black may be the new black (and the old black) in Crown Heights, Williamsburg and Borough Park. But if you thought that Hasidic hats all look the same — black brim, black crown, black band and bow — you would be wrong. Mirroring the subtle but significant differences among their Orthodox Jewish wearers, there are […]
“They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust” May 10, 2009 - October 01, 2009 Jewish Museum, NY more@TheJewishMuseum.org
