New York has had a turbulent few months at City Hall, and plenty of Jewish New Yorkers have felt it. Happily, the city still does one thing better than anywhere else, which is put on a show. Two...
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They Buried It in Milk Cans: The Warsaw Ghetto Archive Comes to NYC
They Buried It in Milk Cans So You Could Read It In 1999, UNESCO added three collections from Poland to its Memory of the World register: the scientific works of Copernicus, the masterpieces of...
New York Bagels: Secret Ingredient Wasn’t Water. It was Cancer.
New York is finally being forced to confront what the rest of the world figured out decades ago: that the secret to their legendary bagels wasn’t the water. It was a carcinogen. Albany just...
I Wish More JAPs Were Gay
When I was in 9th grade, I joined B’nai Brith Girls, a pre-sorority for Jewish high school girls. I’m still not sure how this happened, but I fondly remember my baby queer self eating pretzels...
JewliciousReels: Preview of Over 30 Must See Fall Films
NOW IN THEATRES CLIVE DAVIS: The Soundtrack of Our Lives Documentary Director Chris Perkel Featuring: Clive Davis, Doug Davis Running Time 2h 3m A film about the legendary music producer with the...
Moishe Gets a New Window – An East Village Kosher Bakery Gets a Gift
In Manhattan, one of the few remaining kosher bake shops is Moishe’s in the East Village at 115 Second Avenue. Moishe’s survived poor times and punks, for over four decades, as well as...
Of Convicted Spies and Real Estate Broker Fees
Last Friday, when Jonathan Pollard was released on parole after serving thirty years in federal prison for espionage, I wondered where he would choose to reside. Perhaps Manhattan’s Upper West...
Netanyahu and Adelson Eat Traif in NY: The Bad and the Good.
Skooling the UN on the similarities between HAMAS and ISIS can sure stimulate your appetite apparently (never mind that ISIS is on record stating that HAMAS will have to be eliminated before...