Nate Lavey
By Nate Lavey
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News Old-School Brooklyn Hat Store Keeps Hasids and Hipsters Looking Dapper
Stanley Goldstein sits at the center of a narrow hat store in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, fielding customers’ questions about brim sizes, crowns and colors. Bencraft Hatters, which was first opened in 1948 by Goldstein’s father, has been selling hats to Jews and non-Jews for 65 years and carries everything from cowboy hats and…
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News The Kotel Is Close to Our Hearts
A Rosh Hodesh service was held on Tuesday, March 12, at the Town & Village Synagogue on East 14th Street in New York. The minyan was one of a number of U.S. events in support of the Israeli group Women of the Wall, which advocates for the right of women to pray at the Western…
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Opinion Instagramming Purim in Hasidic Boro Park
People in Boro Park tend to stick with traditional Hasidic clothing like headscarves, shtreimels, and rekels. But on Purim you’re bound to see people dressed as clowns, princesses and even SpongeBob SquarePants. Here are a few Instagram photos from around the neighborhood that give a sense of what it’s like on Purim in Boro Park.
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News The Forward’s Top 10 Videos of 2012
This year the Forward committed to telling Jewish stories visually and we’ve produced more video than ever before. So to get a sense of where we’ve been, here’s our top ten videos from 2012: Without a doubt our most popular video was our profile of young Naomi Kutin, a Jewish girl from New Jersey who…
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Opinion Tunisia Riots and a Mysterious Star of David
According to reports on Twitter and in Tunisian media, Muslim protestors have scaled barrier walls at the U.S. embassy in Tunis. The police and military response was quick, with men on horseback and armored vehicles arriving to disperse protesters — identified as hardline Islamists — who raised a black flag of the radical Salafi movement…
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News Lone Struggle To Keep Tunisian Cemetery Alive
Video: Nate Lavey After years of decay and neglect, the Jewish cemetery in Tunis is overgrown, unkempt and could be declared ‘abandoned’ by the Tunisian government a status that could result in its redevelopment. The fate of the cemetery rests on a few caretakers like Joseph Krief, a native-born Tunisian Jew, who has tried for…
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News Tunisian Jews Seek Place in New Order
Video: Nate Lavey A year and a half after the ouster of Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the president of the Tunisian Jewish community is wistful for the one-party government that ruled the country for decades. “You cannot find a better government than what we had,” said Roger Bismuth, who has held the…
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Culture Talking Comics With Diane Noomin
Pioneer of women’s comics Diane Noomin talks to Michael Kaminer about Wimmen’s Comix, Twisted Sister and her new book, “Glitz-2-Go.” The many and varied adventures of Didi Glitz — the book’s central character and Noomin’s comic alter ego of several decades — both delight and instruct. Noomin uses Didi to combine the personal and the…
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