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Culture In Satmar Williamsburg, even the Legos wear yarmulkes
Frieda Vizel left the Satmar world at 25 — but she still visits twice a week to give tours of Hasidic Williamsburg
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Culture Who serves the best kosher pizza in NYC? We found out
We regret to inform you that at least one Ashkenazi digestive tract was harmed during this investigation
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Culture He wrote a beloved prayer book. But his gravestone misspelled his name.
Philip Birnbaum, who died in 1988, was a man careful with language, yet a stone of eight words had three errors
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News De Blasio quits crowded race for Congress in heavily Jewish district
‘People are looking for another option,’ former New York mayor said hours after meeting with Orthodox leaders in Borough Park
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News Nadler campaign: Defeat of ‘most senior’ Jewish House member will have ‘national implications’
Rep. Jerry Nadler ‘embodies the idea that one can absolutely be pro-Israel and progressive simultaneously,’ his campaign said in email to Jewish supporters
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News Those ‘Messiah Is Here!’ signs popping up in New York? Here’s who’s behind them.
The signs espouse the beliefs of a fringe Chabad offshoot — but were hung by students from the flagship Chabad yeshiva
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Opinion The Jewish case for reelecting Jerry Nadler has little to do with him
Redistricting may leave New York City, for the first time in a century, without a Jewish representative in the House.
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Books At this Lower East Side bookstore, customers exchange tchotchkes for pickles
Bookshelves here hold not just pickles, but also Hanukkah candles, bat mitzvah photos and other tokens of Jewish culture.
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Fast Forward Isaiah Zagar, renowned Jewish mosaic artist who created Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens, dies at 86
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