By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
A year after Debbie Friedman’s death, the legendary singer and composer’s version of “Shalom Aleichem” is gaining popularity among clergy and congregants.
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By Josh Nathan-Kazis
Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto’s charity has spent tens of thousands of dollars on luxury travel and fine jewelry, documents obtained by the Forward show.
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By Paul Berger
Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes has charged 85 Orthodox Jews on child sex abuse charges. But he refuses to release their names, even those that have been convicted.
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By Gianna Palmer
The Eldridge Street Synagogue held a reenactment of its founding 125 years ago. There was klezmer music, Yiddish acting and a celebration of its role in Jewish life.
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By Forward Staff With JTA
A Holocaust survivor from Brooklyn was killed when floodwaters swept away a Catskills motel. A Good Samaritan died trying to rescue a child from downed power lines.
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By Paul Berger
CROWN HEIGHTS, 20 YEARS LATER. Though they share the neighborhood, blacks and Jews in Crown Heights still don’t see eye-to-eye about the riots. Or much else.
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The marchers come up President from the corner of Utica Avenue — “the accident site,” as it has come to be known — where Gavin Cato was killed by the car from Rabbi Schneerson’s motorcade. They have just been listening to Al Sharpton and Sonny Carson — the Al Sharpton “of Tawana Brawley fame,” the Sonny Carson “who masterminded the Korean grocery boycott,” is the way they’re described by Chasidic observers.Read More
By Paul Berger
The new reality show ‘Russian Dolls’ is little more than stereotypes strung together. Many in Brighton Beach are just happy the actors aren’t explicitly described as Jewish.
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By Nate Lavey
Twenty years after the riots, we walk the vibrant streets of Crown Heights. Activists and ordinary folks talk about what’s changed and the continuing racial divisions.
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By Naomi Zeveloff
The group that sponsors free trips to Israel for young American Jews wants to promote itself. So it’s planning a trip for reporters who went on Birthright journeys.
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Montreal's First Jewish Mayor Michael Applebaum Hit With Corruption Charges
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