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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 489

Debra Nussbaum Cohen

Dr. Vivian Fischer offered medical care in Minneapolis during protests following the death of George Floyd in police custody there, May 30, 2020. (Courtesy Fischer/ via JTA)
June 1, 2020, 1:49 pm
Minneapolis Jews tend wounds, distribute supplies, caring for a city in turmoil
Jewish community members give food and medical aid, board up storefronts even as rabbis urged to remove Torah scrolls in fear of attacks on synagogues
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Helene Aylon, 89, died of coronavirus on April 6 (Sandi Dubowski via JTA)
April 9, 2020, 8:32 pm
Feminist Jewish artist Helene Aylon dies of coronavirus at 89
Focused on her faith, women’s issues, nuclear disarmament and climate change, Aylon’s work reflected her evolution as a woman and a Jew
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Marty Markowitz showing off his apiary in the backyard of his Southampton home. (Debra Nussbaum Cohen via JTA)
June 19, 2019, 3:18 pm
Podcast tells incredible story of a NY shrink who took over his patient’s life
Over 40 years, psychiatrist Isaac Herschkopf convinced businessman Martin Markowitz to alienate his family and endow his fortune to him
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Abby Stein, left (Debra Nussbaum Cohen); April Baskin, right (URJ) via JTA
January 17, 2019, 8:43 am
Jewish women defend decision to join Women’s March steering committee
April Baskin says telling black people how to communicate is ‘unconscious white supremacy’; Abby Stein argues she should be in the room to speak up against anti-Semitism
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Marianne Williamson seen on day three of Summit LA17 in Downtown Los Angeles's Historic Broadway Theater District on Sunday, November 5, 2017, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)
December 1, 2018, 2:24 am
Jewish New Age guru stakes her claim for 2020 presidential run
Self-help author Marianne Williamson says she wants to help a wounded nation heal itself; quotes Herzl urging a new ‘blossoming of the Jewish spirit’
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Lewis Aron, left, founding IARPP president, and Steven Kuchuck, the current president, at the group’s 2018 conference in New York City. (Debra Nussbaum Cohen)
June 20, 2018, 2:37 pm
US psychology association faces pressure to boycott Israel, cancel Tel Aviv meet
Vocal minority of International Association of Relational Psychoanalysts and Psychotherapists’s 2,200 members objects to next year’s gathering being held in Tel Aviv
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
A view of the Ronald O. Perelman Emergency Center at NYU Langone hospital in 2014. (Governor Andrew Cuomo/Flickr/via JTA)
May 29, 2018, 4:45 am
Hasidic volunteers kicked out of major NY hospital blame clash on medical ethics
Satmar Bikur Cholim, operating since 1952, has been banned from the NYU-Langone Hospital in Manhattan. Organization workers say it’s due to a disagreement on end of life care
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Sen. Simcha Felder, D-Brooklyn asks New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio if he knows the cost of a loaf of bread and a dozen eggs during a joint legislative budget hearing on local government on Monday, January 30, 2017, in Albany, New York. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)
May 16, 2018, 4:22 am
An Orthodox politician stands in the way of Andrew Cuomo’s national ambitions
Within Simcha Felder’s 17th District are Borough Park, Flatbush and parts of Sheepshead Bay: a strong Orthodox voting bloc that has earned him the title of kingmaker
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
A view of a Starbucks shop in Washington, DC, on April 17, 2018. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
May 3, 2018, 2:16 am
Starbucks denies speculation it ‘demoted’ ADL in its anti-bias training
Coffee chain says Jewish group ‘remains a key component’ in efforts to combat racism in its 8,000 retail outlets across the US
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
A view of Congregation Kolot Chayeinu in Brooklyn, New York. (Courtesy of Congregation Kolot Chayeinu/via JTA)
April 22, 2018, 6:00 pm
Brooklyn synagogue pulls its money out of Chase bank to promote climate change
Jewish community leaders hope whole denominations will eventually follow Congregation Kolot Chayeinu’s lead and engage in impact investing
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Golda Meir, women soldiers, religious feminists and 'Wonder Woman' Gal Gadot represent the various ways women in Israel and America have seen themselves reflected one in the other since 1948. (JTA collage)
April 19, 2018, 8:18 am
What women in Israel and the West have learned from seven decades of cooperation
Americans are inspired by powerful Israeli role models, and in return laid the foundation for an Israeli feminist movement fighting sexualization and wage disparity
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Selavan wants to give his tours combining Jewish text and ancient artifacts at museums around the world. (Debra Nussbaum Cohen/JTA)
March 30, 2018, 9:55 pm
A tour group leader uncovers Passover secrets in the Met Museum’s Egyptian wing
Nachliel Selavan, a Jewish educator and self-taught museum guide, looks at Jewish texts and history through ancient artifacts, showing that ‘the Bible doesn’t exist in a vacuum’
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Andre Nathan, who was born the same year that the Nazi-allied Vichy government revoked the French citizenship of Algerian Jews, recalls taking this picture of his parents and siblings outside the Oran synagogue on a Jewish holiday in the 1950s. (Courtesy of Nathan via JTA)
February 8, 2018, 3:42 am
Algerian Jews see ‘some justice’ as Germany recognizes their Holocaust suffering
25,000 elderly survivors who suffered under Vichy’s anti-Semitic laws now eligible for grants
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Shimon Abta and his wife, who asked not to be named, in happier times. (Facebook via JTA)
February 3, 2018, 4:11 am
Deported from US, Israeli marijuana scientist fighting to be reunited with wife
Shimon Abta seeks to return to America after being accused of drug trafficking, over his work in Nevada medical pot firms
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Illustrative image: Marc Mezvinsky and Chelsea Clinton combined Jewish and Methodist traditions during their wedding ceremony on July 31, 2010. (Genevieve de Manio, via JTA)
October 2, 2016, 5:47 pm
Where Ivanka Trump and Chelsea Clinton may pray on Rosh Hashanah
No matter who the next president is, a Jewish son-in-law is sure to visit the White House some time before the next Jewish New Year
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
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