Lana Gersten
By Lana Gersten
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News William Davidson, 86, Philanthropist and Owner of Detroit Pistons, Dies
William Davidson, a businessman and Jewish philanthropist for whom the Jewish Theological Seminary’s graduate school of education is named, died on Friday, March 13. Davidson, 86, was the owner of three professional sports teams, including the Detroit Pistons, a National Basketball Association franchise. According to a statement released by the Detroit Pistons, Davidson died with…
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News Henry Tylbor, 79, Child Survivor of Ghetto Uprising
Henry Tylbor, one of the youngest survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and a survivor of Budzyn and other camps, died February 24 of complications from Parkinson’s disease. He was 79. According to his wife, Wendy Gittler, he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s about 15 years ago. Born in Warsaw, Tylbor was 13 years old in…
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News Food Fight: Brooklyn Co-op Mulls Israel Ban
Located in the heart of Brooklyn, near Prospect Park, the Park Slope Food Coop is at the nexus of the borough’s many diverse Jewish populations. From the liberal Jews of Park Slope to the Hasidic Jews of Crown Heights, the coop is one of the few places in Brooklyn where Jews of all denominations converge…
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News Orthodox University Slashes Jobs
Beset by financial losses, the flagship university of Modern Orthodoxy announced that it was laying off 60 employees, spread out across all of its undergraduate schools, in an effort to reduce its operating budget by nearly $30 million. In an announcement sent via e-mail February 9, Yeshiva University’s president, Richard Joel, wrote that the layoffs…
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News Ralph Kaplowitz, 89, Original Member of the Knicks
Ralph Kaplowitz, an original member of the New York Knickerbockers who played in basketball’s first professional game in 1946, died at his home in the Floral Park section of Queens on February 2. He was 89. According to his daughter, Barbara Kaplowitz, the cause of death was kidney failure. At the age of 27, Kaplowitz…
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Culture Struggling To Stay Afloat
Last August, just as the new academic year was starting, Rabbi Yaacov Dvorin, head of Hillel Torah North Suburban Day School, in Skokie, Ill., was facing an increase in the number of families applying for financial aid, decreased dollars coming in through fundraising efforts and the possibility of cutting back on teaching assistants. It was…
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Culture Culinary Arts: A Taste of Kosher Cooking
Tucked amid the shops on a busy street in Brooklyn, the Center for Kosher Culinary Arts is at first hard to find. The one-room school, located on the second floor of a housewares store, is small and unimposing. Despite its humble appearance, the center offers an impressive array of recreational classes for the home cook,…
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News If at First You Don’t Succeed… Hasidic Singer, Subject of Rabbinic Ban, Tries Again
Hasidic singing sensation Lipa Schmeltzer was set to perform last March before a crowd of thousands at Madison Square Garden’s WaMu Theater in New York. The concert, a charity fundraiser, was billed as “The Big Event.” Then, less than three weeks before the concert date, 33 ultra-Orthodox rabbis — including some of the community’s most…
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