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Remembering Joseph Landis and Gilbert and Sullivan’s Amy Maude Helfer
In Praise Of Joseph Landis, Yiddish Culture’s Champion At Queens College (CUNY) Were it not for Queens College professor Joseph Landis, who died January 6, at the age of 95—Isaac Bashevis Singer and his wife, Alma Singer, might never have come to my home for a vegetarian Friday-night dinner of eggplant parmesan casserole. Founder and…
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The Yiddish Forverts Goes Biweekly in Print
The weekly Yiddish Forward is cutting back to a biweekly print schedule amid declining circulation and growing financial pressure. The Yiddish Forward will increase its focus on its website, which will be updated daily with news and multimedia content starting February 4. Now the last of the Yiddish-language secular newspapers, the Yiddish Forward has published…
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Chandra Levy’s Father Says ‘Secret’ May Reopen Jewish Intern’s Murder Case
Chandra Levy’s father reportedly says prosecutors have told him that the sensational murder of his congressional intern daughter has become entangled by a problem with a witness during the trial of a man convicted of the killing. Robert Levy told Fox News he had been told the talks involve a witness, but didn’t know specifics….
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Double Murder Mystery Worries Jewish Snowbirds in Florida Condo
Two weeks after a Jewish couple from Toronto was murdered at their Florida condo, the mystery surrounding the slayings is only deepening. Rochelle Wise, 66, and David (Donny) Pichosky, 71, were found dead on January 10 at their winter home in Hallandale Beach, Fla., near Ft. Lauderdale. Police call the incident a double homicide, but…
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Jews Living in Fear, European Leader Concedes
Jewish people are living in fear in Europe but the European Union will make sure they are not harmed, the president of the European Parliament said. “Yes, Jewish People are living in fear in Europe but this is not 1929, this is 2012,” European Parliament President Martin Schultz has said Jan. 22 during a speech…
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Boxer Yuri Foreman Makes Inspiring Comeback
Yuri Foreman, the Orthodox rabbi-in-training and former boxing champ, is on the comeback trail — and he thanks his fellow Jews for giving him the inspiration to make it happen. The onetime WBA world light middleweight champion returns to the ring with a non-title bout against Brandon Baue in New York on Wednesday, January 23….
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Larry Selman, Star of Oscar-Nominated Documentary, Dies
They sat shiva for Larry Selman on Monday night on Bedford Street. Selman, 70, died Sunday morning in a Manhattan hospital from heart failure. Alice Elliot’s Oscar-nominated documentary, “The Collector of Bedford Street,” chronicled the developmentally disabled man who collected donations for charity in his Greenwich Village neighborhood for decades. Elliot and her neighbors established…
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Nechemya Weberman Gets 103 Years for Sex Abuse, and Satmars Say ‘Whoa’
The stunning 103-year prison term imposed on Brooklyn ‘therapist’ Nechemya Weberman for sexually abusing a girl has unleashed fierce debate, with many members of his ultra-Orthodox community saying the harsh sentence is unfair especially compared with punishment meted out to other notorious criminals. Critics claim the long sentence will deter future abuse victims from coming…
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Walk Down the Jewish Chocolate Trail
On the Chocolate Trail: A Delicious Adventure Connecting Jews, Religions, History, Travel, Rituals and Recipes to the Magic of Cacao by Rabbi Deborah R. Prinz Jewish Lights, 272 pages, $18.99 If there is one attribute that all Jews across the spectrum possess, it’s the pride we feel when a fellow Jew accomplishes something noteworthy. Many…
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Parents Face Dilemmas When Jewish Schools Close
In January 2012, Irit Pinkus was shocked to learn that her daughter’s Jewish day school would close at the end of the semester, leaving her and the parents of the school’s other 150 students with a tough decision: where to place their children next year. It’s a decision faced by an increasing number of families….
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The Truth Hurts, Bibi
So now we have the journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, presumably based on conversation(s) with officials of the Obama administration, perhaps with the president himself, quoting Obama: “Israel doesn’t know what its own best interests are.” And then, with “each new settlement announcement Netanyahu is moving his country down a path toward near-total isolation.” Needless to say,…
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