On Wednesday night, Columbia/Barnard Hillel will host a ceremony marking the transition from Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day, to Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day. Israel Defense Forces veterans will speak about fallen comrades minutes before a big, festive party. Emotions at that moment always run high. This year, though, is sure to be even more…
President Trump has called the seizure of documents from his longtime personal lawyer Michael D. Cohen a “witch hunt” — and lawyers for both men were in federal court Friday seeking limits to what evidence federal prosecutors will get to see. But Cohen has blurred the line between his personal dealings and work with Trump…
All year long, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School teacher Ivy Schamis teaches her students about the Holocaust: about perpetrators, victims and survivors both historical and contemporary. She never imagined she would find herself using those words to describe her own students, her colleagues — even herself. Eight weeks ago, when students had just finished presenting…
When news broke Friday that the president’s personal lawyer had paid a Playboy model $1.6 million to keep quiet about her claim that she had been impregnated by Trump supporter Elliott Broidy, it was the most recent headline about the Jewish philanthropist and the most colorful — but not by much. The world already knew…
The Sunday before Passover, New York’s biggest beer mogul, Simon Bergson, found an ultra-Orthodox rabbi waiting for him in the lobby of his apartment building. The rabbi brought some strange news: He needed Bergson to sell all of his beer. Symbolically. Just for a week. Then he could buy it back. Bergson had never heard…
Better put down that pint of Guinness, and don’t even think about cracking a Corona. This month, some Orthodox rabbis are telling New York Jews they should stick to Budweiser — or not drink beer at all. The unusual edict was made after the rabbis who keep watch on New York’s kosher food supply realized…
Unlike other Jewish New Yorkers prized by President Trump for their impeccable loyalty who received plum administration jobs, longtime personal attorney Michael D. Cohen never got the call to go to Washington. Yet on Monday, Washington came for him, in the form of an FBI raid of the fixer’s workplace and home related to Special…
Watching Mark Zuckerberg testify to the Senate Tuesday with a clean-shaven face and dressed in a rarely-seen suit, one could be forgiven for thinking that the Facebook boss was delivering his Bar Mitzvah sermon — not addressing a high-stakes congressional hearing. Zuckerberg has rarely been seen questioned in unfiltered public appearances, preferring instead to communicate…
After a fire in Trump Tower killed one resident on Saturday, President Trump praised the local fire department for quelling the blaze – but had nothing to say about the death of the tenant, Todd Brassner, whom he reportedly once called a “crazy Jew.” Brassner, 67, had been a prominent dealer of art and musical…
When “Tamar” was 32, her mother suggested she freeze her eggs. Actually, it was her mother’s gynecologist who’d suggested that she tell her daughter to do it. “I flipped out. I really did,” said Tamar, who preferred not to give her real name. Her mother, Tamar said, isn’t usually the stereotypical intrusive “Jewish mother.” “I…
In the wake of the United States’ failure to qualify for the World Cup, which will be held in Russia, 23andMe has announced a new partnership with FOX Sports that will try to get fans pumped up by encouraging them to root for the country of their ancestors. It sure is nice to feel genetic…
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