Congregation Beit Simchat Torah officially opened its modern new sanctuary on Manhattan’s West Side on April 3.
When the six members of the Simcha klezmer band hauled their instruments into a dilapidated rehearsal space, no one suspected they were about to hijack a government building in this large, clean city some 450 miles east of Moscow.
It’s not every Shabbat that one can celebrate gay pride weekend with Edith Windsor and Roberta Kaplan – the gay community equivalent of Rosa Parks and Thurgood Marshall.