Alex Weisler is a former journalist and the senior video and digital content producer for JDC, the global Jewish humanitarian organization.
Alex Weisler
By Alex Weisler
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Opinion For Ukraine’s Jews, the work is not yet done — even as the war rages into its third year
“I hate what’s brought me here, but I love who I’ve become,” a cousin of the author, a JDC official, told him during his recent visit to Ukraine
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Opinion Ukrainian Jews channel Miriam as they celebrate their second Passover in conflict
In the midst of fighting and displacement, Ukrainian Jews continue to find hope through song and dance
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Community A Holocaust survivor’s lesson in exhaling and fighting on
Asya Seredenko was six years old when the Nazis came to her city — Kharkov, Ukraine. That’s when she started holding her breath. Her Jewish father was off on the front lines for the Soviets, and the Germans patrolling the streets knew Asya’s home belonged to a Jewish soldier. Asya’s Russian-born mother hid her in…
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Community The Post-Soviet Jews Still Need Us.
In my travels, I’ve seen a lot: the last Jewish woman in a tiny Siberian village, fetching firewood by herself on a frigid February morning; fiercely talented Jewish children dancing in traditional Georgian costumes in the village of Gori, where Stalin was born; hundreds of teens from across the former Soviet Union coming together to…
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Community In Moldova, a Poor Child’s Face Reflects Infinite Jewish Possibilities
Perched high atop a hill, the old Jewish cemetery looked well maintained, so I smiled. In Eastern and Central Europe, I’ve found that to be rare. We had just entered Rybnitsa – crossing the de facto border between the former Soviet republic of Moldova and separatist, quasi-independent Transnistria – when the translator pointed it out….
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News Pickle Shop, a Lower East Side Icon Now Makes Its Home in Boro Park
Two hours before closing time on a Friday afternoon, three members of a Hasidic family walked into Pat Fairhurst’s pickle shop in a heavily Orthodox Jewish section of Boro Park, tempted by the sweet and sour pickles nesting in brine in big plastic barrels. The father looked around at the spare but functional store, smiled,…
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News Rabbi: ‘Divine Intervention’ Played a Role
An e-mail inbox flooded with hate mail and death threats might force some people to consider a career change, but Rabbi David Nesenoff sees it as an opportunity. Nesenoff, of Stony Brook, N.Y., was caught in a media whirlwind after capturing on video longtime White House correspondent Helen Thomas telling Jews to “get the hell…
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The Schmooze New York Filmmaker Tries To Capture City’s Changing Accent
As a young girl, filmmaker Heather Quinlan ate her first knish during a visit with her father to the Staten Island Zoo — an Irish family eating a Jewish food in an Italian borough. At the time, she didn’t see the irony. But now, Quinlan, who hails from the Bronx, is making “If These Knishes…
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