admin | January 20, 2021
When I found out that an old friend from my former Jewish Haredi community had participated in a violent coup to overthrow the government, I felt pain, anger and despair. But I didnt feel surprise.
admin | January 20, 2021
Read this article in Yiddish To mark the inauguration of President Joe Biden on January 20, the Folksbiene released a video on Tuesday featuring the cast of the companys hit production of Fiddler on the Roof performing God Bless America in Yiddish. In the video, created by actor Ben Liebert (who played Motl the Tailor), more than 20 actors, including Steven Skybell (Tevye) and Mikhl Yashinskiy (Mordkhe the Innkeeper) , appear alongside the plays director, Oscar-winning actor Joel Grey.
admin | January 14, 2021
A high-ranking official with the New York Police Department has been suspended without pay and is now the subject of an internal disciplinary process after a string of racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic posts, the NYPD confirmed. Late last year, an investigation by the City Council connected Deputy Inspector James Francis Kobel to a user under the name Clouseau. Under that identity, he routinely posted offensive messages on a public law enforcement message board attacking Black people, Muslims, the Hasidic Jewish community and others with extremely derogatory language, according to a draft report from the New York City Council Oversight and Investigations Division.
admin | January 14, 2021
Ukrainian Rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman was ranked as one of the top 100 most influential people and phenomena in Ukraine, by Vesti,a Russian-language newspaper in Ukraine. Azman made the list because of the Jewish community's aid in the fight against the novel coronavirus, including providing protective gear to medical workers, housing doctors working at a local hospital and feeding the sick and needy. He ranked 62nd on the list
admin | January 6, 2021
Read this article in Yiddish Marienbad & BeyondDavid LeitnerPublished by David Leitner, $29.95, 536 pp The small town of Marienbad, once a part of the Austro-Hungarian empire but now in the Czech Republic, earned its place in Yiddish literature thanks to a satirical piece by Sholem Aleichem in which he poked fun at nouveau-riche Warsaw Jews who imitated the aristocratic custom of spending summers at spa resorts in order to enjoy its healing mineral waters. Before World War I, Marienbad was a popular resort for the highest rank of society
admin | January 6, 2021
Chris McKenna|Times Herald-Record SOUTH BLOOMING GROVE - A developer has proposed building 205,000 square feet of storesand offices off Museum Village Road and Route 208, not far from the busy interchange where Route 208 meets Route 17. The proposed South Blooming Grove Business Park would consist of a pair of three-story buildings, each 40 feet high, to be built on 10 of the 44 total acres in the development site, according to plans taken up this month by the Village Planning Board
admin | January 6, 2021
BBCs extreme makeover of mass murderer of Jews mocks memory of innocents and harms peacemakers efforts in 2021 At the onset of a New Year, especially the year after the COVID disaster that was 2020, who doesnt want to focus on the positive, on the potential for good, on a future filled with real hope?
admin | January 4, 2021
NEW YORK There is a saying, Well-behaved women rarely make history. Its a sentiment that underpins author Rachel Manekins new book The Rebellion of the Daughters: Jewish Women Runaways in Habsburg Galicia. From the late 1800s until the eve of World War I, hundreds of young Jewish women living in Western Galicia, now Poland, fled their Orthodox, mostly Hasidic, homes to find refuge in a Krakw convent where some ultimately converted to Roman Catholicism
admin | December 30, 2020
In late 2014, I met with Naftuli Moster, a bright and charismatic graduate student at Hunter College who grew up in Brooklyns Hasidic community. He was interested in studying Hasidic parents attitudes toward secular (nonreligious) educationan area that I have long researched and written about. I gave him the best guidance I could: how to write a survey, how to get buy-in from the community, whether to use Yiddish or English, and how to ensure that his sample was as representative as possible
admin | December 30, 2020
A Hasidic man and medical workers cross paths near the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., in November. When public health messaging comes from community leaders, it's much more likely to be adopted, research on diverse groups finds.
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