Jackie Hajdenberg
By Jackie Hajdenberg
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Fast Forward Yeshiva University rescinds approval for LGBTQ+ student club
The club has vowed to keep operating
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Fast Forward These Jewish arts organizations have been defunded by the Trump administration
“This is enormously concerning,” said one local National Endowment for the Arts grantee
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Culture This Jewish New Yorker survived the Holocaust and the Hungarian Revolution, and is still helping others today
Longtime Washington Heights resident Susan Kalev, 80, who is still working as a social worker, shares her family’s story of survival
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Fast Forward Is ‘New Absolute Bagel’ real? A sign stirs fretful optimism on the Upper West Side.
Despite its name and address, ‘New Absolute Bagel’ does not appear to have any particular relation to the old one
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Fast Forward Rabbi Eliyahu Fink, compassionate voice in the Orthodox world, dies in road accident at 43
The Monsey, New York resident was an early and outspoken voice about LGBTQ inclusion in the Orthodox Jewish community
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Fast Forward 7 standout treasures from YIVO’s vast collection in New York
In honor of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research’s 100th birthday, we take a deep dive into the cultural institution’s massive Yiddish archive
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Fast Forward Taboonia, a new Israeli Druze restaurant in NYC, is run by a Nova music festival survivor
Taboonia is the city’s second Druze restaurant — and the first to seek kosher certification
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Fast Forward Columbia University students can now spend their dining dollars at JTS’ kosher café
Conservative Judaism’s flagship said the new meal option is an “obvious” response to over a year of post-Oct. 7 tension at the Ivy League campus
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