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Rose Girone turns 110

Knitting legend Rose Girone, world’s oldest Holocaust survivor, dies at 113

The longtime Queens resident, who ran a knitting shop in Forest Hills, fled Poland and Germany for Shanghai before immigrating to the U.S. in 1947.

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Gender-bending legacy of Barbra Streisand’s ‘Yentl’ is celebrated in Brooklyn

With a performance by drag artist Simply Barbra, a screening by The Neighborhood emphasizes the movie musical’s Jewish, feminist and queer themes.

Columbia University students can now spend their dining dollars at JTS’s kosher café

Conservative Judaism’s flagship said the new meal option is an “obvious” response to over a year of post-Oct. 7 tension at the Ivy League campus.

Frank London

After fighting cancer, klezmer legend Frank London is busier than ever

12 Chairs Café is going kosher — but only for 4 nights

Influential Jewish comics legend Will Eisner gets a retrospective in Chelsea

A kosher chocolatier on the Upper East Side goes all-in on Valentine’s Day

Brooklyn BridgeBuilders and Shahana Hanif

Why many Jews in and around Park Slope are mobilizing to vote their City Council representative out of office

From ‘Coffee Talk’ to ‘The Hanukkah Song,’ 36 standout Jewish moments from 50 years of ‘Saturday Night Live’

Swanky, secular Shabbat parties keep popping up in NYC

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