By Nate Lavey
After 65 years in business an old-school Williamsburg hat store keeps Hasids and hipsters looking dapper with the help of a dedicated clientele and 100-year old hat-mending machines.
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By Roxy Kirshenbaum
With a challah tucked underneath his arm, one rabbi makes house calls to elderly patients suffering from terminal illnesses.
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By Simi Horwitz
Judith Malina is one of many Jewish show-biz types at the Lillian Booth Actors’ Home. Even at 86, the avant garde queen still commands the stage of life.
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By Naomi Zeveloff
For two months, two women traveled through Gaza learning about traditional foods and the stories behind them to create what is likely the first cookbook on Gazan home cooking.
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By Josh Nathan-Kazis
On Philip Roth’s 80th birthday, 100 Roth dorks, news hounds and former Newarkers took a guided tour of the author’s childhood city, novels in hand.
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By Nate Lavey
American Jews are speaking out about one of the issues that is closest to their hearts: the right of women to pray as they please at the Western Wall in Jerusalem
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By Curt Schleier
Henry Grossman wasn’t a fan of the Beatles when he first started photographing them in 1964. But he wound up snapping thousands of shots of the Fab Four.
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Two authors walk into a bar … and debate Judaism, Brooklyn, and their own paranoia. For Ben Schrank and Joshua Furst, there’s no better time and place to chat.
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By Seth Berkman
The fastest-growing town of Lakewood, N.J. is home to a large Orthodox community. It also has a large homeless encampment — and the debate about it has split the community.
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By Paul Berger
Just one member of the Forward’s staff is always called ‘mister.’ Not publisher Samuel Norich, nor board chairman Jacob Morowitz, but copy editor Louis Katz.
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