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Endorsements are a weighty issue in New York City’s mayoral race. An ex-governor who resigned amid a sexual harassment s...
08/29/2025

Endorsements are a weighty issue in New York City’s mayoral race. An ex-governor who resigned amid a sexual harassment scandal, an incumbent mayor whose corruption charges were dropped by President Donald Trump’s Justice Department, and a previously little-known democratic socialist who supports the movement to boycott Israel are all vying for one thing: credibility.

We are keeping track of the endorsements that matter to Jewish New Yorkers.

We're tracking the endorsements that matter to Jewish New Yorkers.

Shavuot came early — or late, to be precise — this year for the lily pads at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. But on Thursda...
08/25/2025

Shavuot came early — or late, to be precise — this year for the lily pads at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

But on Thursday, the lily pads got their fill of the food mostly closely associated with the Jewish holiday. In fact, they were positively straining under the weight of cheesecakes from Junior’s, the Downtown Brooklyn bakery operated by the same Jewish family since it opened in 1950.

The food fest came during The Waterlily Weigh-off, a friendly competition organized by the Denver Botanic Gardens for the past three summers.

The Jewish-owned bakery supplied the weights for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's entry into an annual lily pad competition.

What exactly is “Slam Frank,” the purported hip-hop musical that reimagines the Holocaust’s most famous victim as a pans...
08/23/2025

What exactly is “Slam Frank,” the purported hip-hop musical that reimagines the Holocaust’s most famous victim as a pansexual Latinx girl today?

Is it a real show with real actors and real songs constructing a real story for real audiences? Or is it an elaborate social media prank designed to pillory the left and rage-bait the right? Or could it be both?

The show’s Instagram account, its primary engine of promotion, has stoked the confusion.

"Slam Frank" — assuming it's real — turns Anne Frank's diary into a satire about the discourse around inclusivity.

Around 20 masked activists stood on a street corner Tuesday night in Crown Heights, distributing fliers accusing “zionis...
08/21/2025

Around 20 masked activists stood on a street corner Tuesday night in Crown Heights, distributing fliers accusing “zionist white supremacists” of murdering a child whose accidental death sparked antisemitic violence in the neighborhood in 1991.

Their audience featured both counter-protesters drawn from the Chabad Lubavitch movement they targeted and security officials charged with keeping the peace.

Local officials had denounced the rally planned by a group called Crown Heights Bites Back as antisemitic.

Crown Heights Bites Back held a vigil to commemorate the killing of a Black child that sparked antisemitic riots.

Over the last few years, Jewish actor Timothée Chalamet has portrayed an eclectic cast of characters. He’s become inters...
08/19/2025

Over the last few years, Jewish actor Timothée Chalamet has portrayed an eclectic cast of characters. He’s become interstellar Duke Paul Atreides in the “Dune” movies, the titular chocolatier in “Wonka,” a young cannibal in “Bones and All” and student revolutionary Zeffirelli B. in “The French Dispatch” — and that’s just to name a few.

Now, it looks like Chalamet will take on perhaps his most oddball role yet: Marty Reisman, the Jewish “wizard of table tennis.”

Over the last few years, Jewish actor Timothée Chalamet has portrayed an eclectic cast of characters. He's become interstellar Duke Paul Atreides in the "Dune" movies, the titular chocolatier in "Wonka," a young cannibal in "Bones and All" and student revolutionary Zeffirelli B. in "The French Disp...

Leo Hu had no idea as a child in Tianjin, China, that he would ever be engaging with a Jewish language, or becoming one ...
08/18/2025

Leo Hu had no idea as a child in Tianjin, China, that he would ever be engaging with a Jewish language, or becoming one of the first — if not the first — daily Talmud students to work from a machine translation into Mandarin.

Growing up just a decade removed from the Cultural Revolution, during which religion was essentially banned, would have made a future as a Jew in New York City feel like a farfetched possibility — if he could even have imagined it.

But that was before Hu saw “Fiddler on the Roof.”

For Leo Hu, who was born in Tianjin, China and now lives in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, the musical was a gateway to an increasingly Jewish life.

For those who miss the very funny, very Jewish presence of the late comedy icons Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner, a new off...
08/17/2025

For those who miss the very funny, very Jewish presence of the late comedy icons Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner, a new off-Broadway play that tells the story of their eight-year relationship practically brings the legends back to life.

“Gene & Gilda,” written by Cary Gitter and directed by Joe Brancato, is playing at 59E59 Theater on the Upper East Side through Sept. 7.

In “Gene & Gilda,” Jordan Kai Burnett, playing Gilda, practically resurrects the Jewish icon.

Rep. Dan Goldman, who represents swaths of Manhattan and Brooklyn, won’t endorse Mamdani until he takes “concrete steps”...
08/16/2025

Rep. Dan Goldman, who represents swaths of Manhattan and Brooklyn, won’t endorse Mamdani until he takes “concrete steps” to assuage the fears of Jewish New Yorkers about hate crimes, he told Politico on Wednesday. When we profiled Goldman, he said his Jewish identity inspired his “lifelong commitment to public service.”

Plus, Eric Adams mourns a rabbi's family tragedy

Loehmann’s, the New York City-based discount department store that had a devoted — and deeply Jewish — fan base, is set ...
08/14/2025

Loehmann’s, the New York City-based discount department store that had a devoted — and deeply Jewish — fan base, is set to make a return later this month.

Now under new ownership after closing for good in 2014, Loehmann’s will relaunch as a series of pop-up stores, beginning with a warehouse sale at Tanger Outlets at Deer Park on Long Island on Aug. 22, the New York Post reports. Future pop-ups are planned in Florida and New York City.

The discount retailer will reopen as a series of popups, starting with a warehouse sale on Long Island beginning Aug. 22.

Ruth Messinger added a significant Jewish voice to Zohran Mamdani’s camp on Monday. She endorsed him in Manhattan during...
08/13/2025

Ruth Messinger added a significant Jewish voice to Zohran Mamdani’s camp on Monday. She endorsed him in Manhattan during the first stop of his “Five Boroughs Against Trump” tour.

Plus, Donald Trump takes center stage on the campaign trail

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