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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 342

Harlem

Susan Sarandon at the Toronto International Film Festival at the Winter Garden Theatre on September 10, 2018, in Toronto. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
February 6, 2022, 11:52 am
Susan Sarandon sorry for tweet that likened mourning for slain NY officer to fascism
Actress says her meme about Jason Rivera, who was shot to death while answering domestic disturbance call in Harlem, was ‘insensitive and deeply disrespectful’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
New York Police Department officers salute during the transfer of the remains of officer Wilbert Mora outside the NYU Langone hospital in New York, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022. (AP/Yuki Iwamura)
January 26, 2022, 4:31 am
‘Incalculable’ grief: Second NYPD officer dies days after Harlem shooting
Officer Wilbert Mora, 27, taken off life support four days after gunman shot him and Officer Jason Rivera, 22, when they responded to domestic disturbance call
By Michael R. Sisak and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN
The Moorish Zionist Temple, Harlem, NY, 1929 (James Van Der Zee/The Folklore Research Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem via the National Library of Israel Digital Collection)
November 1, 2020, 10:10 pm
Yiddisher Black cantors from 100 years ago rediscovered thanks to rare recording
Discographer Henry Sapoznik tracks down record by international Yiddish-language performer Thomas LaRue, and slips into a rabbit hole of Black Jewish history
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Beejhy Barhany opened Tsion Cafe in 2014 with her husband. (Josefin Dolsten/JTA)
February 18, 2018, 10:44 pm
Israeli-Ethiopian woman brings injera — and smoked salmon — to Harlem
In a former life the stomping grounds for Charlie Parker and Malcolm X, Beejhy Barhany’s Tsion Cafe is now home to the eclectic tastes that reflect its local and foreign flavors
By Josefin Dolsten
Thomas Lopez-Pierre on the show 'Meet the Faith' in BET studios, New York City, 2006. (Johnny Nunez/WireImage/Getty Images via JTA)
July 18, 2017, 10:50 pm
NY city council candidate agrees to stop saying ‘greedy Jewish landlords’
Thomas Lopez-Pierre says decision to stop using term at center of his campaign came after talks with ‘Jewish supporters’
By ToI Staff and JTA
Thomas Lopez-Pierre on the show 'Meet the Faith' in BET studios, New York City, 2006. (Johnny Nunez/WireImage/Getty Images via JTA)
April 29, 2017, 1:26 am
‘Anti-Semitic’ NY city council candidate says more anti-Semitic things
Thomas Lopez-Pierre maintains ‘greedy Jewish landlords’ are conducting ‘ethnic cleansing’ of black and Latino residents with funds from Israel
By Ben Sales
The Harlem Hebrew Language Academy Charter School in New York is home to a nearly proportional student body of black, white and Latino students. (photo credit: Julie Wiener/JTA)
October 18, 2016, 5:05 am
Harlem’s new Jewish renaissance
With prices rising around the city, there’s a return to a neighborhood that once boasted one of the largest Jewish communities in New York — perhaps even the world
By Ben Sales
New York's iconic Brooklyn Bridge (CC BY-Buggolo via Flickr.com)
October 14, 2016, 10:42 am
NY Hebrew charter school network awarded $4.9m federal grant
Five-year allowance will allow dual-language nonprofit to develop new schools, expand its existing work
By JTA
Alvin Lee Smalls, 75, has been selling rugelach in Harlem ever since he found and improved upon a recipe in a newspaper in 1964. (Ben Sales)
October 8, 2016, 5:14 pm
Meet Harlem’s African-American rugelach king
Alvin Lee Smalls, 75, has turned his unlikely Jewish-inspired pastry business into a local institution
By Ben Sales
A man interrupts Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders during a Community Conversation at the Apollo Theater in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City April 9, 2016. (Eric Thayer/Getty Images/AFP)
April 10, 2016, 3:44 pm
Harlem crowd cheers as Sanders rebuffs anti-Semitic heckler
‘I am proud to be Jewish,’ Democrat presidential hopeful tells man who claims Jews ‘run the Federal Reserve, they run Wall Street’
By JTA
Chadwick Boseman playing Jackie Robinson getting ready to take the field in the new film '42.' (photo credit: Legendary Pictures/JTA)
April 12, 2013, 2:16 pm
When Jackie Robinson took up the bat for Jews
The baseball star condemned use of anti-Semitism in his community and swayed the stances of contemporary black leaders
By Ami Eden
March 15, 2013, 10:59 pm
Baby survives fall strapped to suicidal mom
Woman jumps from NY building, lands on her back, allowing 10-month-old son to roll away unscathed
The Israeli Gospel Choir, which performs its American debut over the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend. (Osnat Karsonansky)
January 18, 2013, 5:08 pm
At a New York synagogue, a remarkable Israeli civil rights tribute
Congregation Rodeph Sholom honors Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with a landmark gospel performance by Israeli singers
By Daniel Weizmann
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