Jon Kalish is a Manhattan-based writer and radio journalist.
Jon Kalish
By Jon Kalish
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Sports For an Israeli Chicago Bulls’ fan slain on Oct. 7, a final gift from that team’s star forward
DeMar DeRozan signed a jersey in memory of Oron Beilin, who was murdered at the rave near kibbutz Re'im
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Fast Forward Ruth Seymour, public radio pioneer devoted to Jewish culture, dies at 88
The Bronx-born broadcasting executive grew L.A.’s KCRW into a public radio powerhouse
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Culture Survivors of the Hamas massacre are suffering from trauma — meet the therapist helping them work through it
Therapist Lisa Fliegel's experiences with the Boston Marathon bombing and inner-city homicide prepared her for Israel
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Actor Luzer Twersky portrays the founder of Hasidic Judaism in the movie 'Dovbush'
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Art It was one of the strangest Jewish records ever made — good luck finding a way to listen to it
Avant-garde stalwart Lionel Ziprin once said his grandfather, Rabbi Nuftali Zvi Margolies, could sing better than Enrico Caruso
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Culture Her father documented the devastation at Nagasaki and Hiroshima — now she’s considered an honorary second-generation survivor
For Leslie Sussan, a 'New York Quaker Jew,' telling her dad's story is one way of trying to repair the world
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Music Klezmer techno music? This 22 year-old is making it a thing
With Kleztronica, Kaia Berman-Peters blends klezmer elements with electronic dance music
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For the past half-century, Larry 'Ratso' Sloman has been everywhere in the city — now in his 70s, he may have had enough
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