This is the Forward’s coverage of Manhattan, the urban core of New York City. Its Lower East Side neighborhood was a center of Jewish immigrant culture in the 20th century.
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Fast Forward ‘We are strong’: Outpouring of solidarity following vandalism at New York kosher restaurant
“It’s not about Zionism or not Zionism,” said the owner of Rothschild TLV. “It’s kosher food”
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Culture Could this be the most meaningful Holocaust memorial in New York?
In Riverside Park, a stone meant to be a placeholder for a grander memorial has become an unlikely gathering place for Bundist Holocaust survivors and their descendants
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Culture Why do Jews eat Chinese food on Christmas?
American Jews have a long history of breaking out the chopsticks in late December
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Culture How a new generation of labor organizers is using the legacy of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire
A long-awaited memorial opens in New York as high-profile unionization campaigns at companies like Amazon and Starbucks stoke interest in labor history
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Culture Sophie Zucker is ready to suck face
The comedian talks to the Forward about her uncensored one-woman musical, making fun of Manhattan and being extremely Jewish onstage
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Books Fleishman is in trouble — but in this show, so is everyone else
One cat and two human Brooklynites live vicariously through the exploits of FX's morally bereft Upper East Side couple
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News After a two-year hiatus, the Israel parade returns to Fifth Avenue with a message of unity
‘Events like the parade bridge the divide among us,’ wrote two Jewish members of the New York City Council, a Democrat and a Republican
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News In new job, the ‘Anthony Fauci of the New York City Council’ aims to fight COVID and antisemitism
Mark Levine, a term-limited councilman from Manhattan, is battle tested. In his two campaigns for the City Council, Levine, who is Jewish, was subject to vitriolic antisemitic attacks from a primary rival. “I have confronted explicit antisemitism in politics before and I’ve proven that we can beat it,” he said after his re-election. And just…
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