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Cathryn J. Prince

Cathryn J. Prince

Reporter at The Times of Israel
Amy Koplow, executive director of the Hebrew Free Burial Association, and Efrem Reis, assistant director, look through a list of donor names at the association’s Maiden Lane headquarters in New York City, June 2025. (Cathryn J. Prince)
October 31, 2025, 1:29 pm
The haunting history of the Jewish burial society that cares for NYC’s lost and forgotten
Since 1888, the Hebrew Free Burial Association has ensured that in the city that never sleeps, the poor and huddled masses enter their eternal rest with compassion and dignity
By Cathryn J. Prince
From left, Eddie and Michael Teitel with their father Gilbert at the Teitel Brothers grocery store in the Bronx, New York, 2025. (Cathryn J. Prince)
September 24, 2025, 3:59 am
This 3rd-generation Jewish family-run Bronx grocery has slung prosciutto since 1915
Opened by immigrant brothers who ditched the rag trade, Teitel Brothers is a beloved institution on a historic stretch of Arthur Ave. lined with Italian delis, bakeries and cafes
By Cathryn J. Prince
Meital Peleg Mizrachi wears a dress that once belonged to her grandmother and that she has since altered. (Tomariko)
June 2, 2025, 2:13 pm
While being Israeli is not in vogue, sabra academic blends faith and fashion at Yale
When not lecturing students on fashion waste, Meital Peleg Mizrachi explores the overlap of Judaism and mindful consumption – while repurposing her grandma’s wardrobe
By Cathryn J. Prince
Illustrative: Young Americans burn their draft cards during an anti-war demonstration, on November 7, 1965, in Union Square in New York, to protest against war in Vietnam. (AFP)
April 30, 2025, 3:45 pm
50 years after the end of the Vietnam War, meet an iconic but unknown Jewish activist
A visit to the New York-based American Jewish Historical Society provides a look at the unsung legacy of Robert Allen Simon through a treasure trove of artifacts
By Cathryn J. Prince
The Yiddish Theatrical Alliance block at the Mount Hebron Cemetery in Queens, New York, has graves going back to the early 1900s. Visitors to the cemetery can take a self-guided audio tour to learn more about the history there. (Cathryn J. Prince)
April 12, 2025, 1:23 am
Sages, celebrities, veterans, crooks: Take a NY cemetery’s Jewish walks of fame – and infamy
Mount Hebron Cemetery in Queens was founded in 1903 and holds over 231,000 graves. Its Legacy Foundation offers audio tours teaching visitors about the contributions of those interred
By Cathryn J. Prince
'The Last Dekrepitzer' by National Jewish Book Award winner Howard Langer. (Courtesy/ Barbara Jaffe)
April 2, 2025, 12:23 pm
Fiddling with writing, lawyer pens award-winning book about busking rabbi in NYC
Winning the National Jewish Book Award for his debut novel ‘The Last Dekrepitzer’ at age 74, banjo-playing law prof Howard Langer says it’s not always about writing what you know
By Cathryn J. Prince
Illustrative: Leaders of the New York-based YIVO open crates of salvaged YIVO treasures from Europe, photographed in New Jersey, 1947. (Courtesy of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research)
March 21, 2025, 4:17 pm
Dirty jokes and sacred texts: YIVO marks 100 years of preserving Yiddish culture
Artifacts from 1,000 years of Ashkenazi Jewish life including literary transcripts, Herzl’s diary, everyday notes and children’s scrawls connect prewar Jews with generations to come
By Cathryn J. Prince
Abraham Hamra faces off with a pro-Palestinian protester in New York City. (Courtesy)
March 17, 2025, 3:39 am
Bucking stereotypes and fighting hatred, a Syrian Jewish ex-refugee lights up Instagram
An immigration lawyer by day, New Yorker Abraham Hamra has gained over 59,000 followers using his fluent Hebrew and Arabic to bridge gaps with adversaries and counter misinformation
By Cathryn J. Prince
Demonstrators raise a sign depicting President Donald Trump as Adolf Hitler during a protest in support of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, March 10, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
March 12, 2025, 1:51 pm
Daily Briefing Mar. 12: Day 523 – Columbia anti-Israel activist’s arrest makes US Jews uneasy
NY reporters Luke Tress and Cathryn Prince delve into 17 months of campus protests and why the detention and threatened deportation of a ringleader is not universally embraced
By Amanda Borschel-Dan, Luke Tress and Cathryn J. Prince
Rembrandt van Rijn, 'A Jewish Heroine from the Hebrew Bible,' 1632–33. Oil on canvas, 43 x 37 ⅛ in. (109.2 x 94.4 cm). National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, purchased 1953, accession no. 6089. (NGC)
March 12, 2025, 12:53 am
Drawing on Dutch masters, NY exhibit explores Christians painting themselves into Purim parable
Eschewing Persian version, Jewish Museum extends art curation scepter to masters like Rembrandt, who saw Esther’s heroism echoed in their own struggle against Catholic Spain
By Cathryn J. Prince
Menachem Rosensaft at the Bergen-Belsen former Nazi camp in September 2022. (Shahar Azran/WJZ)
February 3, 2025, 3:56 am
A new book of psalms doesn’t praise God, but confronts Him over the Holocaust
Released on Jan. 27, genocide expert Menachem Rosensaft’s ‘Burning Psalms’ is a harsh condemnation of the lack of divine intervention against the Nazis – but it’s not a dismissal
By Cathryn J. Prince
Social media influencer and motivational speaker Chris Caresnone, also known as the Babka King. (Courtesy)
January 24, 2025, 3:59 am
The ‘Babka King’ is bridging cultural gaps on Instagram — one blintz at a time
Chris Caresnone has grown a social media following of over half a million posting about foods from different cultures — and has been welcomed into the Jewish community
By Cathryn J. Prince
The entrance to Holy Land USA, a defunct religious theme park in Waterbury, Connecticut, that closed in 1984. (Cathryn J. Prince)
January 11, 2025, 5:52 am
A long-abandoned Christian theme park sits just off a US highway. Will it rise again?
Shuttered in 1984, Connecticut’s Holy Land USA is a crumbling hodgepodge of biblical settings that was also the site of a grisly 2010 murder; a local priest works for its resurrection
By Cathryn J. Prince
Isaac R. Ohrenstein on one of several international internship experiences, on Seven Mile Beach in the Cayman Islands at the Ritz Carlton Hotel. (Courtesy)
December 27, 2024, 4:22 pm
A Harvard student interviewed dozens of Jewish change-makers. Here’s his takeaway
For ‘Voices of Impact,’ podcast host Isaac Ohrenstein speaks with the Jewish world’s most impactful personalities. With mic turned on him for a change, he shares his experiences
By Cathryn J. Prince
Hillel Kornwasser in his room in Teaneck, New Jersey, filming an opening scene for his documentary, 'Forces of Resilience.' (Courtesy)
December 19, 2024, 9:29 pm
A 14-year-old flew to Israel to film a documentary about Oct. 7. It premieres on Sunday
Teaneck, NJ, teen Hillel Kornwasser found magnitude of Hamas atrocities so incomprehensible that he created the film ‘Forces of Resilience’ to process them
By Cathryn J. Prince
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