Julia Gergely is a former National Desk Intern at The Forward. She now reports for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Julia Gergely
By Julia Gergely
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Fast Forward A scripted TV series about Russ & Daughters will aim to tell four generations of a Jewish family’s history
(New York Jewish Week) – Russ & Daughters may be famous across the city — and the world — for its Jewish delicacies like smoked fish, bagels, and babka. But soon, the appetizing institution may be fodder for a TV series as well. As Deadline reported on Thursday, Time Studios is developing a scripted series about the…
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Fast Forward This Yiddish book center in Queens lives on, just like the language it celebrates
(New York Jewish Week) — In a rickety warehouse in Long Island City, reached only by a footbridge that crosses underneath the Long Island Expressway, some 80,000 Yiddish books are stacked on shelves in a large, sunlight-filled room that overlooks the Pulaski Bridge, Midtown Manhattan to the west, and Downtown Brooklyn in the distance. This…
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Fast Forward For $500, this Zabar’s sweater can be yours
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week) — Uptown bagel and bag lovers rejoice! The Zabar’s x Coach collaboration has arrived and it’s the ultimate mashup of nosh meets posh. As part of their Spring/Summer 2022 line, luxury fashion brand Coach is drawing inspiration from the iconic Upper West Side gourmet grocery. Specifically, Coach has placed the…
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Fast Forward NY State releases new guidelines for private schools — and yeshivas push back
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) – The New York State Education Department released long-awaited guidelines Thursday on teaching secular subjects in parochial schools. They were met with immediate pushback from Orthodox Jewish leaders. The new proposals offer several options for schools to prove their instruction is “substantially equivalent” to public schools, and will take…
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Fast Forward A kosher soup kitchen partners with DoorDash to help New Yorkers in need
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) – Masbia, the kosher soup kitchen and food pantry, has partnered with food delivery service DoorDash to provide kosher meals and groceries to families facing food insecurity in Brooklyn and Queens. The partnership is part of Project Dash, DoorDash’s social impact initiative, in which the San Francisco-based company partners…
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Fast Forward A new comedy showcase asks what’s still funny about being a New York Jew
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — As “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” tries to make abundantly clear, stand-up comedy is a New York Jewish thing. The show is set in an era when Jewish comics were defining the art form in Manhattan night clubs and Catskill Mountain resorts: Lenny Bruce, Joan Rivers, Woody Allen, Elaine…
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Fast Forward In Brooklyn’s ‘Little Odessa,’ Jews from Ukraine and Russia find the war ‘terrifying’
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — In Brighton Beach, New York, a community in Brooklyn known to many as “Little Odessa,” named after the port city in Ukraine, many Jews are struggling to navigate the fear and uncertainty that has wracked the community as Russia wages an unprovoked war on their former…
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Fast Forward A new Instagram account tells the story of New Yorker Judith Kaplan, America’s first-ever bat mitzvah
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — If Instagram existed 100 years ago, what would 12-year-old Judith Kaplan, the first American girl to have a bat mitzvah, be posting? What issues would she care about? What feelings would she share with her friends and followers on social media about taking such a big…
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