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Fast Forward Jesse Cogan, ad exec who coined the slogan ‘Turn Friday Night into Shabbos,’ dies at 74
Cogan also created slogans for the Soviet Jewry movement and a group that championed Modern Orthodoxy
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Yiddish World Tel Aviv arts center to host event on Yiddish women’s poetry
The inspiration for the event at Neve Schechter was a poem by poet Celia Dropkin about New York's urban experience
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Fast Forward Jews were targeted by the majority of hate crimes in NYC last year, NYPD says
Data compiled by the department showed that there were 345 anti-Jewish hate crimes across the city in 2024, nearly 54% of the 641 total hate crimes tallied
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Fast Forward First-ever Solomon Schechter day school in North America goes Orthodox
The Conservative Jewish school in Queens said in a letter to families the name change reflects the community’s evolving needs
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Culture A loss that leaves a bagel-sized hole on the Upper West Side of Manhattan
Why I’m mourning the closing of Absolute Bagels
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Culture The shuttering of Absolute Bagels on NYC’s Upper West Side is driving some to anguish — others to poetry
An elegy for the loss of the best bagel in New York — and maybe the universe
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Fast Forward How a Jewish teen’s description of New York City life in 1945 found a contemporary audience of millions
Charlotte Buchsbaum, a teen in 1945 New York, wrote about going to bar mitzvahs, celebrating Passover, and heading to Times Square to celebrate the U.S. victory over Japan.
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Fast Forward Jewish ace Max Fried signs record-breaking contract with the New York Yankees
Fried’s eight-year, $218 million deal is the largest contract in baseball history both for a Jewish player and for a left-handed pitcher
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