The first known LGBTQ synagogue was formed 51 years ago, when the House of David and Jonathan held services in the upstairs of a Brooklyn church during the fall of 1970. At the time, Rabbi Herbert Katz told the newspaper GAY that most of his fellow clergy denied that there were any gay Jews. And…
(JTA) — When a portion of Champlain Towers crumbled early Thursday morning, thrusting the beach town of Surfside, Florida into tragedy, it also struck at the heart of a thriving and growing Jewish community. As of Friday morning, four people had been confirmed dead, and local authorities say 159 remain missing. Search and rescue teams…
Jacob Solomon has responded to hurricanes, terror attacks and Israeli wars — but nothing prepared him for the Champlain Towers South collapse. The president and chief executive officer of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation was awakened early Thursday morning with news that huge swaths of a condominium just north of Miami Beach had fallen. He…
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The Forward received 34 Rockower awards from the American Jewish Press Association for work published in 2020, including 16 first prizes in categories including investigations, commentary, news, arts, sports, photography, multimedia and obituaries. The awards were announced in a virtual ceremony last night. The full listed of recognized Forward stories is below: First-place awards: Award…
(JTA) — As NFL beat writers go, Jori Epstein is likely among the more unique: Start with being a woman, she doesn’t work on Shabbat and she has penned a Holocaust survivor’s biography. The Dallas resident, who attended Jewish day schools and camps, is only 26, too. Epstein, who attended Jewish day schools and camps,…
Old Jewish men are a unique species all their own. Few depict the phenomenon better than the Instagram and TikTok accounts ‘Old Jewish Men’ with more than 50,000 followers between them. The posts range from an old Jewish man kvetching about lox prices with a DIY cardboard sign reading, “MAKE LOX $2.99 PER POUND AGAIN”…
More women of color. More LGBTQ women. More Sephardic and Mizrahi women. More women with disabilities. The Jewish Women’s Archive on Thursday published a new edition of its encyclopedia that will add over 180 new entries to the 2,020 existing ones, an effort its editors hope will introduce readers to a greater diversity of Jewish…
Jewish organizations are urging people around the world to pray for all the victims of the catastrophic residential tower collapse near Miami, including some 20 Jewish people estimated to be among the 99 missing in the tragedy. A section of a 12-story condominium tower in Surfside, Fla., collapsed late Wednesday night, flattening more than 50…
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — The last time we saw Tevye the Milkman on Broadway in “Fiddler on the Roof” was in 2016, escaping Anatevka as a pogrom swept the shtetl. Now, almost five years later, he is resurfacing in a one-man play titled “Tevye in New York,” opening in its world premiere — in Beverly…
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — For most New Yorkers, the early days of COVID-19 were synonymous with eerily empty streets, the constant wail of sirens, and the clapping and cheering for health care workers. But what was it really like for the doctors and other health care professionals who found themselves…
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