Jon Kalish is a Manhattan-based writer and radio journalist.
Jon Kalish
By Jon Kalish
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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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Film & TV In a blockbuster film about the Ukrainian Robin Hood, the Baal Shem Tov makes his debut
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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Culture Is New York’s most ubiquitous Jew leaving New York behind?
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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Fast Forward Nathan Chavin, Jewish ad exec who wrote a raunchy country western hit, dies at 78
“Chinga” Chavin wrote ad copy for Trump properties, palled around with Robert Durst and counted Kinky Friedman as a frat brother
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Books In ‘Something We Said,’ Richard Pryor’s daughter finds words to discuss the unspeakable
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Culture ‘My mayor Muslim, my bagel Jewish’ — the Knicks chant capturing New York’s soul
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Opinion It’s time for Jews who love Israel to give up on Zionism
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Opinion New York’s Israel Day parade was a shanda — but not because of Mamdani
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Fast Forward 5th man charged in March arson of London’s Hatzola ambulances
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Culture Israel boycott battle intensifies at Venice Art Biennale, testing tradition of inclusion
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Culture Their sons are fighting for Israel, and it’s driving them mad