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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 568

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Rabbi Benjamin Goldschmidt and his wife, journalist Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt, announced the name of their new congregation via social media on Feb. 16. (Screenshot from Instagram via JTA)
February 17, 2022, 6:16 am
Rabbi ousted from Park East Synagogue announces new Manhattan congregation
Benjamin Goldschmidt says name of new community he’s starting with his wife will be ‘Altneu,’ a portmanteau of the Yiddish words for ‘old’ and ‘new’
By julia GERGELY
A sign for a campaign against antisemitism, New York City, August 12, 2021. (Luke Tress/Flash90)
February 13, 2022, 12:45 am
NYC politicians share tools to fight rising antisemitism
Local elected officials, representatives of Jewish groups and the NYPD hold virtual town hall on how to quell Jew hatred, following spike in antisemitic hate crimes in January
By julia GERGELY
Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jews seen walking on a street in New York City on January 1, 2014. (Nati Shohat/Flash 90/File)
December 25, 2019, 8:39 am
Man arrested for yelling anti-Semitic slurs, assaulting Orthodox Jew in New York
Steven Jorge allegedly punched and kicked 65-year-old, called him ‘Jew bastard’ before continuing attack even after victim fell to the ground
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
Members and leadership of Park Avenue Synagogue celebrate their congregation's donation of a Torah to the Israeli Masorti Movement for use at the Ezrat Yisrael section of the Kotel, Jerusalem, December 26, 2018. (BGAP2008)
December 31, 2018, 5:37 pm
Doubling down on Israel, Park Avenue Synagogue brings huge group to Holy Land
450 members of prominent New York egalitarian Conservative congregation strengthen commitment to Jewish state — but don’t shy away from looming tough questions
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Three of the looks from the upcoming collection of Lia Kes NYC, being shown at New York Fashion Week (Courtesy Lia Kes)
February 6, 2018, 12:06 pm
Designer Lia Kes takes kibbutz look to the runway
Israeli-born fashion designer will show her collection as part of the official New York Fashion Week calendar
By Jessica Steinberg
Author and actress Jill Kargman in the Bravo show 'Odd Mom Out. (YouTube/VideoByBravo)
June 11, 2015, 10:10 am
A nice Jewish mom on Upper East Side
Bravo’s ‘Odd Mom Out’ casts Jill Kargman as a woman struggling with New York society
By Lisa Keys
November 18, 2014, 2:54 am
Man charged in Manhattan assault of Orthodox couple
23-year-old Brooklynite Mustafa Mashni arrested on suspicion of attacking couple in August
By JTA
"I hadn't realized how deeply connected I really felt," Diane von Furstenberg says of her early involvement in commemorating the Holocaust. (Photo credit: CC BY/david_shankbone via Flickr.com)
March 5, 2013, 12:54 am
Design icon makes Holocaust remembrance fashionable
The daughter of an Auschwitz survivor, style queen Diane von Furstenberg discusses her long-time work for the US Holocaust Museum
By Chavie Lieber
Illustrative photo of Hasidic men walking in Brooklyn. (Gedalya Gottdenger/Creative Commons/JTA)
January 24, 2013, 3:38 am
New study looks at New York Jews, by the numbers
Recently released figures show who goes to synagogue, who visits Israel and who’s having the most children
By Gil Shefler
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