This is the Forward’s coverage of the Lower East Side, a neighborhood in Manhattan that was a center of Jewish immigrant culture in the 20th century.
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The Schmooze Rising From the Wreckage of the East Village
For days after the disaster, Alan Kaufman says, he felt compelled to look at the ruins. Gazing at the aftermath of the March 26 explosion on Second Avenue and Seventh Street that killed two people and destroyed three buildings on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, he remembered how terrifying it was when he was…
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Fast Forward Manhattan Synagogue Members Sue To Block $13M Building Sale
Members of a Manhattan synagogue are asking a judge to halt the sale of their building in a deal made without their knowledge. Worshippers at Sages of Israel, which is also a nursing home, claim that the board selling their Lower East Side Orthodox synagogue building for $13 million to a developer is not legitimate…
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Culture Here’s Who Should Watch ‘The Cobbler’
“The Cobbler,” the recently released movie directed by Tom McCarthy starring Adam Sandler as (obviously, Jewish) cobbler Max Simkin, who discovers a stitching machine with magical powers in his basement, has received dismal reviews — 7% on Rotten Tomatoes and a whopping 5.7 out of 10 rating on Internet Movie Database. Oh well, you might…
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Food Streit’s Matzo Factory Turning Out Last Batch
The 90-year-old Streit’s Matzo Factory on the Lower East Side will close after Passover. (JTA) — Seated in his Lower East Side office, in front of a large portrait of company patriarch Aron Streit, Alan Adler avoids becoming too nostalgic. “It’s like I tell my family members: None of you own a car from 1935,…
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News Judy Rapfogel Is Woman in the Middle of Two N.Y. Scandals
One September night in 1997, Judy Rapfogel threw a party. Press reports had just declared her the winner in a tight Democratic primary race to represent Manhattan’s Lower East Side in the New York City Council, effectively making the seat hers in the heavily Democratic town. Her boss, the new State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver,…
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Food Yonah Schimmel Knishery Staying Put
Alex Wolfman, a descendant of Yonah Schimmel, the knishery’s original owner. Flickr. After reporting earlier this week on rumors that 115-year-old Yonah Schimmel Knish Bakery might be losing its lease, the Forward received an email today setting the record straight. In a follow-up phone call, the Forward spoke with Ellen Anistratov, daughter of Alex Wolfman,…
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Food Is Yonah Schimmel Knishery Closing?
Photograph by Shawn Hote/Flickr. I don’t deal in rumors, but I also can’t ignore the deafening chatter. Bowery Boogie, a terrific blog about New York’s Lower East Side, has reported that 115-year-old East Houston eatery, Yonah Schimmel Knish Bakery, may be about to lose its lease. “Apparently word on the street is that the landlord…
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Opinion Why We Mourn the Loss of Streit’s Matzo
A worker at Streit’s Matzo Factory on the Lower East Side / Getty Images This week brought news of the closing of Streit’s Matzo Factory on the Lower East Side, a landmark that has been there since 1925. For the past fifteen years, on the Sunday before Passover, on behalf of the Museum at Eldridge…
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