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Seth Berkman

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Few Synagogues Damaged by Sandy Have Received FEMA Help

Six months after Hurricane Sandy damaged at least 72 synagogues in New York and New Jersey, only two report having been approved for aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, a Forward spot survey indicates. The need for such aid does not appear to have abated. Though many congregations have cleaned the debris and are…

By Seth Berkman May 4, 2013 | 4 min read
Breaking News
Brighton Beach Nursing Home Reopens Its Doors Six Months After Sandy

Six months after Hurricane Sandy, one Brighton Beach nursing home is finally welcoming back its residents. The Shore View Nursing Home, which has served as a rehabilitation home for seniors for 44 years, reopened its facility on Thursday. More than 180 residents had been placed in a variety of care facilities throughout New York City,…

By Seth Berkman May 3, 2013 | < 1 min read
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N.Y. Mayoral Candidates Mostly Support Consent Forms for Circumcision Rite

All the top Democratic candidates vying to become the next mayor of New York City are calling for greater dialogue between Orthodox groups and city officials concerning the controversial Jewish circumcision practice known as metzitzah b’peh. But among these leading Democrats, only City Comptroller John Liu says he would outright abolish the city’s regulation of…

By Seth Berkman May 3, 2013 | 4 min read
News
Southern Jews a Dying Breed as Small-Town Communities Dwindle Fast

Bert Rosenbush Jr. enjoys a bittersweet form of celebrity in his hometown of Demopolis, Ala.: He’s the last living Jew there. It’s a form of prominence he shares with Phil Cohen of Lexington, Miss. In Natchez, Miss., Jerold Krause is one of just a dozen Jews left. And Selma, Ala., a town that was central…

By Seth Berkman Apr 28, 2013 | 5 min read
News
Nicholas Lemann Talks About Journalism’s Hazy Future

Throughout his 10-year tenure as dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, Nicholas Lemann fielded calls on a daily basis from people asking about the “crisis” in journalism and what he intended to do about it. It was a crisis he was all too familiar with. As dean, he navigated young journalists…

By Seth Berkman Apr 24, 2013 | 3 min read
News
Slain Boston Bomb Suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev Eyed in Jewish Triple Murder

Police in a Boston suburb are investigating whether slain Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was involved in the unsolved murders of his close friend and two other men, one of whom was a Brandeis University graduate and the other a devout Jew. Tsarnaev, who was killed in a shootout with police, was a close…

By Seth Berkman Apr 22, 2013 | 2 min read
Opinion
Hunting for Greener (Jewish) Pastures

I have an Orthodox Jewish friend here in New York who is always yapping about Dallas (not the television show). “The people are so nice,” he says. “The weather is better… The houses are cheaper.” He’s been there only once in his life, but would like nothing more than to find a job northern Texas…

By Seth Berkman Apr 22, 2013 | 3 min read
News
Penn Researchers Charge Orthodox Misused Report on Circumcision Rite

University of Pennsylvania officials are crying foul over what they view as the illicit procurement and misuse by several ultra-Orthodox groups of an internal study by Penn researchers of a controversial circumcision rite. Penn’s Center for Evidence-based Practice never published or released an assessment it conducted earlier this year of evidence from prior studies showing…

By Seth Berkman Apr 18, 2013 | 4 min read

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