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The festival will feature 10 films with English subtitles over the course of three days, all of which were directed, made, written or acted in by Mexican Jews.
Some of the protesters were dressed in red robes with their faces covered by white bonnets in the style of “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
Kosher Dekal is coming back with a new design and formula for its counter linings that caused a scandal last year after customers had trouble taking them off.
“If there’s no accountability or consequences of what took place, what happened to me is going to happen to someone else," said Joseph Borgen.
“The Torah says it’s a mitzvah to relate what happened to us,” said Abe Rosenberg. “Hitler’s goal was to destroy Yiddishkeit, Judaism. When we gather here, we are involved in a victory over him."
“I’m deeply concerned in the direction the country is going in right now,” Zamir said in remarks to a gala dinner in New York City on Thursday night.
“As a Jew and someone who has celebrated Shabbat in many countries around the world, I must say that this one was the most special,” Binsky says in the video.
Hazamir started with just one small chapter in New York, but is now an international choir for Jewish high school students with more than 35 branches. This weekend, it will celebrate its 30th anniversary with a concert at Lincoln Center.
The 92nd Street Y is one of the sponsors of a big celebration this weekend of what would have been Philip Roth's 90th birthday. The author of a book about the novelist looks at how Roth's reputation has grown — and suffered — in the five years since he died.
"It is time for the Shabbos goy," Cuomo said.
Little has changed at Murray's Sturgeon Shop since it opened in 1946, and that's a good thing.
“The trauma involved in this one has a lot more to do with me,” said Platt, who is 29, the same age Frank was when he was accused of murder in 1913.
Happy 75th birthday to Billy Crystal, who was born on this day in 1948 on the Upper East Side. Initially raised in the Bronx, the Jewish family moved to Long Beach where Crystal eventually had his bar mitzvah at Long Beach’s Temple Emanu-El. The actor and comedian went on to star in numerous TV shows and films — and hosted the Academy Awards a whopping nine times. (Timothy A. Clary/Getty Images)
Alex Neuhausen said his interest in dance music goes back to a young age, when he went to his cousins’ bar and bat mitzvahs.
“I’m very, very happy for that, [but] I’m not focusing on getting Michelin stars,” Shani told the New York Jewish Week.
Adams' dinner initiative was conceived with the Jewish community at its center. But some haredi activists say that they’re skeptical the program can be sufficiently sensitive to their needs.