A Warm Reunion
Steve Lipman Staff Writer Abraham Gordon, a good Jew from Poland, has a favorite Christmas tradition. Each year on Dec. 25 he tells the story of the cast iron stove. It’s a tale with a happy ending —...
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Steve Lipman Staff Writer The Schneider family of Hastings-on-Hudson in Westchester is running out of shelf space. The bookcase in their living room is packed with the chess books, in Russian, that...
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Steve Lipman Staff Writer Katrin Yaghoubi wanted to find a synagogue with gemutlichkeit. That’s German for coziness. And it had to have eshtemah. That’s Farsi for community.And a rabbi whose services...
View ArticleHelping Other Activists' Children
Amy Spiro Editorial Intern Julius and Ethel Rosenberg’s son, an ardent critic of post-9/11 government tactics, will speak at Central Queens Y.He was only 6 years old when his parents — Ethel and...
View ArticleThe Jewish Week Calendar: Events in New York and Beyond
Does your synagogue, school, community center or local cultural group have an upcoming event? Email information including location, time, date and a brief description to jewishnyevents@gmail.comread more
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Books OCEANSIDEThursday, Apr. 4“In the Sands of Sinai: A Physician’s Account of the Yom Kippur War,” 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., with author Dr. Itzak Brooks, $10, Friedberg JCC, 15 Neil Court, (516) 634-4151,...
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Arts TARRYTOWNSaturday, Apr. 6“Music and Memories,” 8 p.m., chamber music concert in remembrance of Yom HaShoah, with Prep-performance reception, $10, JCC On the Hudson, 371 S. Broadway, (914)...
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QUEENSYom HaShoah BAYSIDESunday, Apr. 7“An Eastern European World the Holocaust Could Not Destroy,” 1 p.m., with Robert Spiotto’s Shalom/Sholom, RSVP required, Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust...
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Arts BATTERY PARKWednesday, Apr. 3“Numbered,” 7 p.m., documentary screening and discussion, $10/$7 students and seniors/$5 members, Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, Edmond...
View ArticleBreaking Out
Dvora Meyers JTA Israeli-born hip-hop break dancer Ephrat Asherie has heads spinning (her own included).Near the start of the dance performance piece “Brothers,” break dancer and choreographer Ephrat...
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