admin | December 21, 2019
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. The morning after the Jersey City grocery store shooting last week, I waited impatiently to hear details about the victims and how the Hasidic community was coping with the tragedy
admin | December 21, 2019
Our guide to plays and musicals coming to New York stages and a few last-chance picks of shows that are about to close. Our reviews of open shows are at nytimes.com/reviews/theater
admin | December 21, 2019
ON DECEMBER 10TH, David Anderson and Francine Graham charged into a kosher market in Jersey City, gunning down two members of the local Satmar Hasidic community and a shop employee (an immigrant from Ecuador) and engaging in a protracted shootout with police before dying in a hail of bullets.
admin | December 21, 2019
The recent shooting inside a kosher supermarket in Jersey City, N.J., is the latest example that we Americans are literally killing ourselves with hatred for our neighbors. It is just the latest in an ever-lengthening litany of putrid examples showing the terrible consequences of hating the other, rather than loving in our hearts all of those created in Gods image. The facts surrounding the murder of innocents just across the river from New York City illustrate how pervasive this problem is today
admin | December 19, 2019
Sadly, attacks on Jews in the New York City area are an all too common occurrence frequent enough that Mayor Bill de Blasio appears to try to obfuscate and avoid addressing the incidents. Just take the instance of a Jewish woman, Lihi Aharon, assaulted on a New York subway train on Dec
admin | December 19, 2019
New York-area listeners: Enter to win a spot at our first-ever Unorthodox Shabbat dinner, Jan.
admin | December 19, 2019
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Like playing dreidel, the tradition of giving children money (Yiddish: gelt) on Hanukkah is not as old as you think. As Miriam Borden, a Yiddish instructor at Toronto University, wrote last year in the Forward, the tradition is at most several hundred years old.
admin | December 18, 2019
"We thought it was a gang fight," Steinmetz said. Unlike previous times, however, the bursts of gunfire intensified rather than dissipated.
admin | December 18, 2019
A deadly anti-Semitic attack on a Hasidic Jewish grocery store in New Jersey has pushed a tight-knit, deeply religious community into the national spotlight.
admin | December 18, 2019
(JTA) The Song of Names is a heartwarming film about a Jewish violin virtuoso who renounces his faith in the aftermath of the Holocaust, only to rediscover it when he hears a song of remembrance. The violinist, Dovidl Rapaport, is shown in three stages of his life, the last as a Hasid played by Clive Owen. The Golden Globe and Emmy-winning actor and Academy Award nominee said he was more than a little surprised to be offered the role
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