They’ve long faced off on college campuses and in the media, and now Israel’s supporters and detractors are in a pitched battle for the hearts and minds of the gay and lesbian community. This fight bubbled over earlier in March when New York’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center canceled a pro-Palestinian group’s event…
March 16 remembrance . response . reform Presented by the Fashion Institute of Technology First year students in the Visual Presentation and Exhibition Design program will design and install an exhibition at FIT — remembrance . response . reform — to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Students will create display vignettes…
Watch a video tour of where the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire took place 100 years ago. Chris Connor, a retired New York City fire marshal, discusses what went wrong on March 25, 1911, and the enduring legacy of the deadly fire: Produced by Gabrielle Birkner Edited by Nate Lavey
Originally published in the Forverts, December 23, 1911 Isaac Harris, forced to give evidence on the witness stand, said that there had been five fires in the Triangle shop, and that he had given instructions to inspect the girls’ pocketbooks. Witnesses forget what they said right after the fire: Isaac Harris, from 342 W. 101st…
Originally published in the Forverts, March 26, 1911 Few fire escapes, locked doors, crooked and narrow stairways, a shop crammed with machines — signs of criminal negligence that robbed 144 workers of their young lives. There was no reason; it was murder, a mass murder. The bosses of the Triangle Waist Company, with permission of…
On the streets of Ashdod, a hardscrabble port city in Israel’s southern desert, Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto is considered the local saint. Six middle-aged men sitting outside a cafe nodded with recognition when asked about the 37-year-old scion of Moroccan rabbinic royalty. “He’s an honored person here,” one said. Another man, hearing the kabbalist’s name,…
Some tragedies lead to nations pulling together. But in Israel, the March 11 terrorist attack that left five Israelis, including three children, dead in their home in the West Bank settlement of Itamar has led to bitter sectarian arguments. In a controversy reminiscent of the aftermath of Yitzhak Rabin’s murder, when the Israeli left blamed…
From his all-American name to the clean cut of his smart, well-tailored suit, Indiana Democrat Andre Carson defies the stereotypes that many Americans may have of Muslims. But like Keith Ellison, his fellow Muslim and Democrat from Minnesota, the Indiana congressman belies a number of preconceptions. For one, there are his warm relations with the…
The weather is picture perfect at Digital Domain Park on this spring-training Sunday afternoon, but as every New Yorker knows, the overall picture for the Mets is far, far less than perfect. On this day, however, the stadium, formerly known as Tradition Field and as the Thomas J. White Stadium before that — but never…
The Canadian Jewish Congress, which has functioned as Canadian Jewry’s primary advocacy group since 1919, is being merged into a larger super-agency that is expected to put greater emphasis on Israel advocacy. The congress, which faced severe financial problems recently, will be combined with community bodies that lobby on behalf of Israel and that co-ordinate…
When New Yorker Bruce Smith prays three times a day for a “return to Zion,” it’s a very personal plea. He is desperate to immigrate to Israel with his wife, Fanny, and their three children, but he can’t: Fanny is an Orthodox convert to Judaism. Ironically, the problem is that Fanny Smith converted through the…
אַנאַ שטערנשיס האָט געזאַמלט הונדערטער בעל־פּהיִקע גבֿית־עדותן פֿון מענער און פֿרױען פֿון פֿאַרשײדענע סאָציאַלע שיכטן.
