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Culture Is this small black plaque the most meaningful Holocaust memorial in New York?
In Riverside Park, a stone meant to be a placeholder for a grander memorial has become an unlikely gathering place for Bundist Holocaust survivors and their descendants
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Fast Forward Nassau County’s Jewish executive calls on Democratic leader to quit for invoking Nazis
The Democratic leader of the county legislature said she was conveying a comparison made by one of many constituents who have expressed fears over a plan to enlist provisional deputy sheriffs
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Culture The Jewish artist bringing abortion history to America’s museums
Currently on display at the Whitney Biennial, Carmen Winant's installation of 2,500 archival photos chronicles the work of abortion providers and activists from 1973 to 2022
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Fast Forward New York Republican lawmakers unveil plan to combat antisemitism ahead of budget vote
‘We need the governor and the state legislature to lock arms with us and lead the way,’ says letter
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Fast Forward New York Jets star Sauce Gardner says his ‘intentions were positive’ when he said that Jews ‘run the world’
Gardner said he did not know that he was echoing a common antisemitic trope
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Fast Forward Martin Greenfield, Auschwitz survivor and master tailor to American presidents, dies at 95
'Receiving your first tailoring lesson inside a Nazi concentration camp was hardly the ideal apprenticeship,' Greenfield once recalled
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Fast Forward Arsonist with ‘kill rabbi’ tattoo sentenced to decades in prison for burning rabbi’s home
Matthew Karelefsky was convicted last month of charges including attempted murder, arson and assault for the crime in Brooklyn
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Food Where can you find the best egg cream in the world? Not New York
Philadelphia's Franklin Fountain won the first National Egg Cream Invitational with an unconventional take on the New York classic
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Fast Forward 2 House members lead the charge to oust the speaker. Both have been accused of trafficking in antisemitism.
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Yiddish אפֿשר וועלן די סגולות העלפֿןDoing more mitzvahs can’t hurt
אין דעם הומאָריסטישן עסיי בעט חנה־פֿײַגל טערטלטויב אַ שידוך בײַם אייבערשטן און געפֿינט אַ מאַן וואָס העלפֿט מלחמה־וועטעראַנען.
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News Who is Gedalia Stern, the yarmulke-wearing attorney in Trump’s hush money trial?
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Fast Forward Guernica’s founder defends retracting Israeli coexistence essay that caused firestorm
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