Archive for the ‘Jews’ Category
Jewish organization helps other Jews to leave Hasidic Judaism
Footsteps says it has aided over 700 people in their exits.
The Rabbi’s Girls present “Songs of Religion & Rebellion” & “Shira’s Belated 1970s Bat Mitzvah Dance Party!”
An irreverent, often hilarious musical show on the paradox of growing up religious and rebellious in the 1970′s. Celebrate Shavuot with Shira Dicker on Tuesday, May 14, at The JCC’s all night blow-out TiKKUN, Amsterdam & 76th Street. Comedy, song and blow-out with Shira & DJ REL starts just after the night turns into Wednesday at 12:30 am!
Hebrew School in Brooklyn, 1955
The photographer Cornell Capa died nearly five years ago in New York City on May 23, 2008. Capa valued his religious heritage and photographing religion.
Kitchens of Faith for Passover
Orange glazed asparagus with toasted almonds from Carol Gelles of B’nai Jeshurun, Manhattan
David Brooks on The meaning of Pomegranate, a Whole Foods for Orthodox Jews
Pomegranate looks like any island of upscale consumerism, but deep down it is based on a countercultural understanding of how life should work.
Golem: demons, idols or saviors of the city?
Since at least the 19th Century, golems have lived in the streets and minds of New York City.
“Ed Koch was our Moses” — Mayor Michael Bloomberg
At funeral services at Temple Emanu-El on 5th Avenue this morning, Mayor Bloomberg said that Koch led the city out of despair and decay and gave us hope.
Ed Koch, ready to give God trouble. We will miss him. December 12, 1924 – February 1, 2012
A self-declared “liberal with sanity,” Koch surprised his friends by developing a close friendship with John Cardinal O’Connor.
Video Feature: Portraits of life in a Russian Jewish Cemetery
Immigrant faces, poems & epitaphs are laser-etched on black granite at Washington Cemetery in Midwood, Brooklyn.
The fading away of the Liberal Jew in NYC. Reflections by Professor Jack Wertheimer
Issues 2013: Interfaith marriage among NYC Jews.
