Marissa Brostoff
By Marissa Brostoff
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News Struggling Synagogue Struck by Vandals
A small Jewish community in Central New York suffered a near-fatal blow last week when the region’s only synagogue was vandalized. The Norwich Jewish Center still stands, but much of the building’s interior was destroyed. No one was harmed in the attack, which took place on Sunday, April 6, as the building stood empty. Three…
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Opinion Retailer Takes Caring for Employees to New Heights
If you are an employee at a leading Florida furniture chain and have a bone to pick, you might take your grievance to human resources. Then again, you might talk over the matter over with the company’s priest, its minister, or even its rabbi. It’s not news that workplaces today look a lot different from…
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News Penny Project: One Girl Vows Never To Forget
As people around the world mark Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, on May 1, a young girl in Pennsylvania is commemorating the day by making change -— lots of it. Jenna Steinbrink has 300,000 pennies. By the time of her bat mitzvah in September, she hopes to have 6 million. Steinbrink, 12, who has been…
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Culture An Abstract Haggadah
A decade ago, artist Archie Granot sat down to give new texture to one of the world’s oldest books. This year, his Haggadah is finally complete. Granot’s Haggadah is different from all other Haggadot in that it is composed entirely of papercuts — sheets of paper carved with a surgical scalpel and intricately layered. Granot…
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News Rise of Yiddish Scholar Elicits Kvetches From Traditional Yiddishists
Jeremy Dauber, a 35-year-old scholar and expert in the birth of Yiddish literature and Modern Hebrew during the Jewish Enlightenment, has secured the much-coveted tenured professorship in Yiddish at Columbia University. With the appointment, Dauber — who already held the prestigious Atran chair in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture at the university — becomes one…
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Israel News Kosher Eatery’s Identity Crisis
There’s a new glatt kosher falafel joint in Manhattan’s East Village, but we can’t tell you what it’s called. That’s because, though it’s been open for a month, it won’t have a name until someone wins the Name Our Glatt Kosher Restaurant contest. The eatery, which bills itself as one of the only glatt kosher…
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Life Spitzer on Rye
Out-saucing the sauciest New York Post headlines, Eisenberg’s Sandwich Shop, an age-old establishment across Fifth Avenue from the Flatiron Building, brings us…
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Breaking News Online Rally Draws Jews from Across the Globe
It’s hard to get a people spread out in a global Diaspora to meet up for a rally, but it becomes a little easier when that rally is held online. On March 20, visitors to a Web site called Together4Israel.org were able to view a lineup of speakers who gathered electronically to give support to…
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