Here’s the thing about growing up Jewish in mid-century Brooklyn: if you were talented enough, the whole neighborhood had plans for you. You were going to be a doctor, or a lawyer, or, if you...
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NewsBits: Mishna In Mississippi Court, Ben-Hur de-Judaized, a...
This week marks 25 years since the riots between Hasidic (Lubavitch) Jews and black residents in Crown Heights in Brooklyn – an event that former NYC Mayor Ed Koch called a pogrom. Community leaders...
The Traif Bike Gesheft in Williamsburg
I’m reposting another Jewish Week article of mine, as I think the content is particularly of interest to the Jewlicious readership. Stop by 99 S. Sixth St. in Williamsburg for a guaranteed...
South Williamsburg, NY: Hassids vs. Hipster Hotties on Bikes
What happens when two wildly divergent communities find themselves living in uncomfortably close proximity to each other? As rents and the cost of living in Manhattan have skyrocketed over the last...
In defense of secularism, shirts
Jews! Nudity! Brooklyn! Manhattan! New York Magazine’s latest cover story has it all. As is the case, I’d imagine, for most secular Jews, my relationship to Ultra-Orthodox Jews is...