admin | December 4, 2021
(New York Jewish week via JTA) Moshe Feldman, a beloved doctor in Crown Heights who for years tended to Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the leader of the Lubavitch Hasidic movement, has died at 80. Feldman was a pediatric specialist who practiced medicine for nearly 50 years in the Bronx and later in Crown Heights
admin | December 4, 2021
Two leading Jewish hip-hop artists have adapted Adam Sandlers 1995 breakout hit, The Chanukah Song, for the present moment. Nissim Black and Kosha Dillz dropped the video for The Hanukkah Song 2.0 just before the holiday began on Sunday evening. It features the musicians galavanting around New York City, riding the subway and hobnobbing with sidewalk vendors in Times Square.
admin | December 4, 2021
Absent were the bands and choir performing traditional holiday songs. Notably missing, too, were the signature lamb-chop trays and assorted latkes. And in the pandemic-limited crowd of 150, dotted with yarmulkes with the presidential seal, a lone member of the Hasidic community of Borough Park, Brooklyn a community that voted in large numbers for Donald Trump and who had an open door in his White House stood out
admin | December 4, 2021
This new book explores anti-work, an age-old idea but also a trending phenomenon in our pandemic world. Topics addressed within this framework include the asymmetric nature of employment, working from home, precarious work, bosses, the merit debate, unions and cooperatives, initial inequality, and psychological responses available to individuals in confronting the challenges of work. The last section of the book offers relevant lessons drawn from parables, koans, and tales
admin | November 30, 2021
GOSHEN - The Republican-dominated Orange County Legislature is set to keep its current party split for another four years after a hand recount affirmed Democrat Laurie Tautel's come-from-behind re-election victory.
admin | November 30, 2021
Today on Midday, a variety of perspectives on Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities, the 1992 play about Black-Jewish relations in America that's getting a new production at Baltimore's Center Stage. Opening night is Thursday. Anna Deavere Smith is an award-winning playwright, actor and activist.
admin | November 30, 2021
Mike Rylko Park in Buffalo Grove will be filled with light on Sunday, as the Jewish community of the Northwest suburbs gathers to celebrate the first night of Hanukkah.
admin | November 30, 2021
Its really lovely to be part of the Boston community and the Jewish community coming out all together, especially during the pandemic, when its so hard to convene a group and celebrate, Braun said. Last Hanukkah, the number of confirmed COVID cases in Massachusetts was surging: 5,369 new cases on the first night
admin | November 30, 2021
Buses move at a glacial pace, empty taxis are an endangered species, Ubers cost a million bucks, biking is like wheeled circus combat, and the subway turns into a water park when it rains. Maybe private aquatic travel isnt so crazy? Corey Orazem, the thirty-year-old owner of Jersey Jet Ski, thinks the future is a world in which office workers Jet-Ski to their jobs
admin | November 30, 2021
The South Koreans are at it again. Netflix struck gold by expanding into the South Korean movie industry as the country is a gift that keeps on giving! Following the massive global success of The Squid Game, another smash hit has emerged from the neon horizon of Seoul: Hellbound, a gory, violent, metaphysical horror story from creator Yeon Sang-ho, the man behind the zombie flick hit The Train to Busan.
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