HAFTR’s tribute to Ally Rahmani
Foundation honors math teacher with a big heart
HAFTR pays a heartfelt tribute to beloved math coordinator Ally Rahmani, whose creativity and big heart live on through a new legacy foundation.
LI News
Atlantic Beach cries uncle in Chabad row
Atlantic Beach cries uncle! The village settles with the Justice Department and will rewrite zoning rules that tripped up Chabad of the Beaches.
Queens Hate Crime
Hate charges but not murder in a Queens death
A Queens widower asks why the driver accused of killing his wife faces hate-crime charges only for vandalizing a kosher bagel shop.
Met Council
Met Council kosher food bank opens $25 million Canarsie hub
Met Council opens a $25 million food warehouse in Canarsie, using AI to get kosher food to up to a million New Yorkers faster.
Politics
Antisemites understand power: Soviet childhood shapes a politician's Jew-hate fight
Antisemites only understand power. Assemblyman Michael Novakhov is bringing that lesson — which he learned in Soviet-era Moscow — to Brooklyn and Albany.
Education
Gaza ‘genocide’ curriculum rhubarb in Hudson Rivertown
Gaza is the only example of genocide in a Westchester middle school syllabus that doesn’t mention the Holocaust, sparking a community uproar.
NYC
Manhattan street name honors JCRC on its 50th
Look for the new street sign! A Turtle Bay corner is now Jewish Community Relations Council of New York Way, honoring JCRC’s 50th anniversary.
Media
Fauda co-creator: Preserve the truth of Oct. 7th
Fauda co-creator Avi Issacharoff says museums, the media and TV shows have a “sacred mission” to preserve the truth of Oct. 7.
food
Israel cuisine on the road with US food truck tour
The “Taste of Israel” food truck is rolling across America, with chef Yossi Shitrit dishing out free tastings in four cities.
Ruth Wasserman Lande
Egypt is no longer your father’s peacemaker
The peace treaty with Egypt is vital to Israel. The fait accompli of decades without war, even in the absence of true normalization, is no small feat in this neighborhood. However, particularly …
Ben Cohen
Anti-Jew French violence was always intimate
In December 2014, Roger Cukierman said that “Jews will leave in large numbers, and France will fall into the hands of either sharia law or the Front National.” Cukierman then head of CRIF, …
Rabbi Yossy Goldman
Abraham stands out: For one thing, he was first
I love the name “Abraham Accords.” May its members grow. Abraham is the father not only of the Jewish people but of all the monotheistic, Abrahamic faiths. He is also the father of sacred …
YU
‘Paw Patrol’ co-creator asks Yeshiva University students to ‘bet on themselves’
'Paw Patrol' co-creator Ronnen Harary is touring campuses handing out $500 startup grants, and seven lucky YU students scored one.
travel
Chabad in action, a year after Hurricane Melissa
A year after Hurricane Melissa, Chabad of Jamaica’s Rabbi Yaakov Raskin reflects on a soaring new statue and the island’s kids still healing.
News Briefs
National Library preserves October 7th final words
In News Briefs: Israel’s National Library is preserving 8,375 heartbreaking chats from Oct. 7 victims and survivors, plus more headlines.
Ethel's Kitchen
Cool-weather warmth, comfort by the spoonful
Grab a spoon! Ethel Hofman serves up cozy cold-weather soups, from chestnut bisque to Cock-a-Leekie straight out of her mother’s Shetland kitchen.
Stephen Flatow
Zionism needs no permission from progressives
Bernard Avishai has identified a Zionism that American progressives can still be permitted to support. Writing in the New York Times, Avishai urges American progressives not to abandon …
Thane Rosenbaum
It’s really time for us to say it: Au Revoir, France
Okay, that finally settles it: France is finished. Get your croissants while they’re hot and before arson incinerates all those quaint but flammable boulangerie-pâtisseries. The nation is aflame …
Sarah Stern
Let’s not get too comfortable. War is coming.
Tehran sent a message to its Lebanese terror proxy Hezbollah: “We estimate that an American attack is a matter of time. You should be prepared.” Iran has concluded that another US strike …
This week in Torah
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Siba U’Mesovev: Understanding cause and effect
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Abraham stands out: For one thing, he was first
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A fresh interpretation of the binding of Isaac
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Food for thought: Eyeing the wonders of nature
Hearing the sound of the future in our children
This past Shabbos, as I approached the pulpit to lead a Mi Sheberach, my five-year-old slipped away from youth groups and followed me up. He then proceeded to be exactly what he is, a five-year-old. …
Melanie Phillips
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The trillion-dollar campaign to conquer the West
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Alarm bells sound as New York falls of a cliff
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The global reach of a renewed war in Gaza
Diplomatic efforts to end the regional war launched by Hamas with its Oct. 7, 2023 pogrom in southern Israel have now returned to the place where it all started. Last week, the Board of Peace, the …
Ben Cohen
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Red, white, black and green food war is upon us
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Oct 7 lessons: Never forget. Never forgive.
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Anti-Jew French violence was always intimate
In December 2014, Roger Cukierman said that “Jews will leave in large numbers, and France will fall into the hands of either sharia law or the Front National.” Cukierman then head of CRIF, …
Books
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Dara Horn says American Jews need a new activism
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From Brown University, Omer Bartov screams genocide libel
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Who’s teaching American kids about Palestine?
In December 2023, teachers in Oakland, California, organized an unauthorized “Palestine teach-in” for students from elementary school through high school. Younger children were introduced to the …
On Campus
Here’s what real Jewish leadership looks like
Rabbi Dr. Mark Goldfeder and the National Jewish Advocacy Center (NJAC) delivered a decisive, precedent-setting legal victory this week that cuts to the core of how antisemitism is litigated and …
More Opinion Columns
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Time has come for an educational homecoming
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Celebrities endorsed a different ‘Free Palestine’
The rapper Macklemore is not the first cultural celebrity to champion the cause of “Free Palestine.” But when many of America’s leading celebrities called for a “Free Palestine” eighty …
Food: Dining In
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From summer salads to hearty winter meals
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Cool-weather warmth, comfort by the spoonful
Grab a spoon! Ethel Hofman serves up cozy cold-weather soups, from chestnut bisque to Cock-a-Leekie straight out of her mother’s Shetland kitchen.
Travel
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Sweet home Alabama: Deep South Jewish story
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Chabad in action, a year after Hurricane Melissa
A year after Hurricane Melissa, Chabad of Jamaica’s Rabbi Yaakov Raskin reflects on a soaring new statue and the island’s kids still healing.
Health
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Dr. Joshua Kugler takes helm at Mount Sinai South Nassau
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Episcopal Health Services alerts its community about breast cancer
Pink power! Episcopal Health Services marked Breast Cancer Awareness Month with a Far Rockaway walk and a reminder that early detection matters.