It was only 8 p.m. on a Monday night, but Brooklyn Bowl was already almost full. Lauryn Hill was slated to sing in a couple of hours, and the crowd, predominantly well-dressed 20- and 30-somethings, was taking advantage of the building’s various spaces: a large general admission floor, a broad bar, tables where fried comfort…
On the second night of Rosh Hashanah, a group of five or six men disrupted a Jewish concert in the Great Hall of Moscow’s International Music House with a tear gas attack. A half-hour into the program, the men, who were seated in the first row, began shouting menacing insults at rock star Andrey Makarevich,…
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Nearly 50 years after Sandy Koufax declined to pitch the opening game of the 1965 World Series for the Los Angeles Dodgers because it fell on Yom Kippur, foul-mouthed comedian Sarah Silverman went to work on the Day of Atonement. On Friday night, October 3, as many Jews elsewhere were in synagogue reciting the Kol…
When troops led by the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia in August 1968, Lynn Nadel was a year into his postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Physiology in Prague. The 25-year-old neuroscientist from Queens, New York, was advised to leave the country. Together with his then-wife and their two young kids, he drove his van to…
This was likely the first time a Rosh Hashanah sermon was covered by Iran’s national TV. “An American rabbi has called for the genocide of all Muslims,” said the announcer on PressTV, Iran’s English language government-run network. And while this report grossly misrepresented the words of Rabbi Shalom Lewis, his [sermon]( http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/rabbi-schlomo-lewis/ehr-daw-theyre-here/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FrontpageMag+(FrontPage+Magazine+%C2%BB+FrontPage ‘sermon’) on the…
Some people break down in the face of personal tragedy. Others become heroes to someone else. Rabbi Elimelech Goldberg, aka Rabbi G., chose the latter path. After his first daughter, Sara, lost a battle with leukemia just after her second birthday in 1981, Goldberg could’ve shut down. Instead, he chose to help other children with…
(JTA) — Naftali Berger’s quest for perfection ends in victory when the 24-year-old kollel student enters Tsvi Dahan’s trailer on Wallabout Street in the haredi Orthodox Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. “Find something wrong with it – find it!” a glowing Berger exclaims Monday as he holds his treasure: a bumpy, lemon-like fruit. In open-air markets…
Benjamin Netanyahu’s comparison between ISIS and Hamas, repeated in recent weeks from every podium in the U.S. and in every TV network interview, gained little traction with the Obama administration which made clear it does not see the two terror groups as equal. But it resonated well with at least one audience: Christian supporters of…
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On a recent weekday morning, Rabbi Greg Wall blew a 3-foot-long shofar off the coast of Norwalk, Connecticut. It was part of a Talmud class he teaches regularly aboard a 23-foot sailboat named Enough. Wall is better known for blowing a saxophone at jazz performances, but this particular gig is part of his day job…
