Hidden away for a decade, a beloved Jewish artist’s mural awaits its return to the public eye
Ben Shahn's 13-piece 'Resources of America' at a former post office in the Bronx, has been inaccessible since 2014
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Culture He walked every block of the Bronx and found traces of a vanished Jewish world
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Communications Forward essay on growing up with a biracial Yiddish identity wins 1st place Rockower Award
In her essay, Kyla Kupferstein Torres describes the warm relationship she had with her Holocaust survivor grandparents
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Fast Forward How a Catholic university amassed a treasure trove of Jewish artifacts from the Bronx
Fordham University and its Jewish studies center are collecting the quotidian artifacts of a once-thriving Jewish community
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News How A Respected Jewish Educator Preyed On Children For A Half-Century
By his own admission, Stanley S. Rosenfeld, a Jewish educator who worked primarily in New York City and Rhode Island, sexually abused “hundreds” of children — nearly all middle school-aged boys — during his five-decade career. From a beloved summer camp in New Jersey, to elite Orthodox schools in New York, to a small Conservative…
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