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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 471

Lower East Side

Two 'Puck' satirical magazine covers featuring Mrs. Mandelbaum. On left (Summer 1884): The public feud between D.A. Olney and police inspector Byrnes. In the middle, depicted in blatantly anti-Semitic caricature, is a bejeweled Mrs. Mandelbaum. On right (1885): Mrs. Mandelbaum, safely on the Canadian side of the ‘fence’ for American defaulters." (Public domain)
July 3, 2024, 1:24 am
How a Jewish German woman in NY became America’s first major crime boss in 1859
Margalit Fox’s new book uncovers the fascinating life and capers of Fredericka Mandelbaum, who fenced stolen property and orchestrated complicated jewel heists and bank robberies
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Lakshmi lights a menorah on her visit to New York Central Synagogue during the "Happy Challah Days" episode of her Hulu show, "Taste the Nation." (Craig Blankenhorn/Hulu via JTA)
November 6, 2021, 12:08 pm
‘Taste the Nation’ hits NYC’s Lower East Side for Hanukkah
Padma Lakshmi’s food docuseries highlights Jewish cuisine as part of special holiday edition: ‘I’ve never needed an excuse to eat anything fried’
By julia GERGELY
The facade of Beth Medrash Hagadol Synagogue in New York City, before the fire. (CC BY-SA 3.0 Sheila/Wikipedia)
October 23, 2019, 10:32 pm
Wall of former historic Lower East Side synagogue collapses, killing worker
Stanislaw Supinski, 52, dies in accident at Beth Hamedrash Hagadol building, which was closed in 2007; another construction worker injured
By ToI Staff
Pickles have been associated with old-time New York City, and its Lower East Side neighborhood, which once teemed with Jewish immigrant vendors. (Buyenlarge/Getty Images/via JTA)
October 27, 2018, 1:48 pm
As pickles conquer the mainstream, are they still a ‘Jewish’ food?
At the Pickledelphia festival, American Jews come to jarring realization that the salty cukes have made it out of the Lower East Side
By Stephen Silver
This November 22, 2014 photo shows evocative lit-up signs inside Russ & Daughters Cafe on the Lower East Side of New York City. Russ & Daughters' take-out business, founded in 1914, sells traditional Jewish foods to go like smoked fish and chopped liver from a shop nearby. (AP Photo/Beth J. Harpaz)
From the WebSeptember 23, 2018, 7:24 am
Anne Russ Federman, of famed Lower East Side Jewish food emporium, dies at 97
Last of the culinary celebrity sisters of ‘Russ & Daughters’ temple of fish dies of heart failure, New York Times reports
Exterior of B&H dairy restaurant in New York City. (Wikimedia commons/ Alex Lozupone)
July 1, 2018, 11:07 pm
B&H, a Lower East Side eatery ‘where everybody knows your name,’ turns 80
The friendly kosher New York institution is now owned and staffed by non-Jews. But that doesn’t keep the food from tasting fresh-from-the-shtetl
By Jordan Hoffman
Actors perform the opera 'Morning Star' at the Eldridge Street Synagogue on Tuesday, March 20, 2018. (Pavel Antonov)
March 22, 2018, 2:55 pm
In historic NY shul, opera resurrects victims of tragic Shirtwaist Factory fire
Actors belt lyrics from balconies in ‘Morning Star,’ a production about 20th century greenhorns, held in the very Eldridge Street Synagogue where their characters once worshiped
By Danielle Ziri
'Bad Rabbi' by Eddy Portnoy (Courtesy Stanford University Press)
October 11, 2017, 10:55 am
‘Bad Rabbi’ exposes seamy underbelly of early 20th century Jewish life
New book shines light on forgotten world of downwardly mobile Jews of New York and Warsaw as chronicled by Yiddish press in its heyday
By Renee Ghert-Zand
The historic Beth Hamedrash Hagadol synagogue ablaze, May 14, 2017. (Screenshot from NBC New York via JTA)
May 17, 2017, 8:46 pm
14-year-old arrested in arson of New York synagogue
Historic building in Manhattan’s Lower East Side was seriously damaged in massive blaze that also injured 2 firefighters
By JTA
Co-founders of The Matzo Project, Kevin Rodriguez, left, and Ashley Albert. (Courtesy)
April 9, 2017, 11:53 pm
It’s hip to be square: Duo gives matzah a millennial facelift
Jewish camp friends Ashley Albert and Kevin Rodriguez co-founded The Matzo Project to fill a previously unconsidered artisanal niche
By Cathryn J. Prince
Katz’s Delicatessen has been a staple on the Lower East Side of Manhattan since the late 19th century. (Courtesy)
March 4, 2017, 4:27 am
New York’s iconic Katz’s Deli to open Brooklyn outpost
Old-school delicatessen, famous for legendary ‘When Harry Met Sally’ scene, to launch offshoot at DeKalb Market Hall next month
By JTA
A view of the front of the Tenement Museum. (Wikimedia Commons)
November 22, 2016, 11:16 pm
NY immigration museum sees ‘unprecedented’ rise in anti-immigrant comments
Tenement Museum giving its guides new training to help them deal with the increase in hostile remarks
By JTA
The penthouse at 415 E. Sixth St., which will sit atop the historic Anshei Meseritz synagogue. (Courtesy of East River Partners)
May 10, 2016, 5:14 am
Synagogue condos: If you lived here, you could be praying by now
Struggling places of worship partner with developers in a creative solution that marries historical preservation with real estate savvy
By Lucy Cohen Blatter
Irving Streit, center, son of Streit's Matzo founder Aron Streit, in an undated photo at New York's Lower East Side factory. (Courtesy of Menemsha Films/via JTA)
April 22, 2016, 3:04 pm
Historic NY matzah factory hits the big screen
New film documents Lower East Side icon Streit’s painful transition to modern facilities in Jersey
By Curt Schleier
Detail from the Museum of the City of New York poster for its Yiddish theater exhibition (Cathryn J. Prince /Times of Israel)
March 11, 2016, 1:54 pm
When Yiddish theater gave Broadway a run for its gelt
Long before ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ revivals, from the late 19th century to the 1940s, New York was the cultural center for Yiddish-language plays
By Cathryn J. Prince
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