By Josh Nathan-Kazis
Hurricane-force winds and historic flooding from superstorm Sandy have devastated the heavily Jewish Brooklyn neighborhood of Sea Gate in Coney Island.
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By Paul Berger
Bukharian Jewry’s chief rabbi shrugs off a string of charges leveled against him. We head to Queens to find out what the ‘black eye’ means for the insular community.
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By Naomi Zeveloff
A small town in upstate New York recorded the nation’s only known case of blood libel. Even 84 years later, a dwindling Jewish community still struggles to come to grips with it.
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By Devra Ferst
A handful of culinary mavericks seek to elevate gefilte fish’s lowly reputation. Gefilteria turns out small traditional batches while Kutsher’s Tribeca has reinvented the dish.
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By Blair Thornburgh
Thanks to her Forward story, Abigail Rasminsky met her future husband. They wed after an intercontinental e-romance and a hurricane-stricken cabin weekend.
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By Judith Matloff
Russia’s oldest Jewish community is stuck in the crossfire of separatist chaos. After 12 centuries of co-existence with the Muslim majority, the Mountain Jews are fleeing.
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By Hannah Rubin
With his kosher ice cream (and sprinkles) plus a special jingle, Yaniv Bazel wins over plenty of pint-sized fans in Brooklyn’s Orthodox neighborhoods.
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By Simi Lampert
Zipping around her Brooklyn neighborhood, Mindy Meyer talks about her gone-viral campaign for office and being an Orthodox woman getting into politics.
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By Ezra Glinter
Yiddish Farm immerses participants in language while creating a model of sustainable agriculture. It doesn’t hurt they grow zucchini, beets and Yukon gold potatoes.
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By Len Lyons
Black American Jews are gaining wider acceptance by the Jewish establishment, which once dismissed them as inauthentic.
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