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...
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Gloria Dissed, B&H Persists, ElAl Dismissed, Obama’s...
My lede should be that a national retailer apologized for featuring a Jewish woman in its catalog. That would not be totally correct though. Heidi Stevens in The Chicago Tribune lambasted apparel...
Division Avenue Jerusalem Review
Yesterday was the opening night of the Jerusalem production of Division Avenue. The aptly titled play written by Miki Bone is ostensibly a story about hipsters, Hasids, bicycles and a street called...
Hipster Glasses? Not Kosher!
Oh hipsters. Time Out New York begged us to kill them in 2007. Indeed, hipsters have suffered a slow and lingering decline since – dying but not quite dead yet. The snarky art students of yore...
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...
Helping Yemenite Jews Emigrate to America instead of Israel
The Jewish Agency in Israel is in an uproar. The agency, responsible for furthering Zionism’s goal by bringing Jewish immigrants to Israel, is outraged by the decision of the American UJC to...