Sections

Donate
Donate
JTA
EST 1917

New York

The New York Jewish Week is the home of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s New York coverage.

Sign up here to get a daily email with New York City Jewish news.

Ideas

I was very disturbed concerning the Satmar custody case (“Satmar Custody Case Hinges On Value Of Religious Community, June 7). It is unbelievable
that Judge Sherri Eisenpress
awarded custody of the three children to the father, even though it was
suggested that he physically abused and may have sexually abused his own children. Then
when I read further that […]

Advertisement

Can a building do justice to the horror of the Holocaust? In Oren Safdie’s new play, “False Solution,” an egotistical German-Jewish architect (Sean Haberle) engages in a battle of wits with a sexy blonde intern (Christy McIntosh) over his plans for a new Holocaust memorial in Poland. As the two struggle to find common ground […]

Ideas

In his letter to the editor (“Wrong on Birthright,” June 7), Melvin Faber somehow implies that because conditions in the West Bank are better than on Native American reservations, they are not worth worrying about. This echoes arguments that I have heard saying that Israel’s human rights violations are OK, because they are not as […]

Load More
Advertisement