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

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The Jewish Week is introducing a new staff blog on our website: The Yad: On Point with Today’s News. Why another blog, you ask? Because our editors and reporters see it as a space and opportunity to comment on each day’s most interesting stories in a timely fashion. As a weekly paper, it isn’t always […]

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In 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory went up in flames. Within 20 minutes, the lives of 146 workers, mostly women, mostly Italian and Jewish immigrants, had been lost. One hundred and one years later, Fashion Institute of Technology students took a few hours out on March 21 to chalk the names and ages of the […]

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Yeshiva University’s challenges — financially and in competition with other institutions of higher learning, both secular and religious — are outlined in staff writer Helen Chernikoff’s thorough and sobering front-page report this week. As she notes, the proud base of the Modern Orthodox community is seeking to increase flagging enrollment at a time of financial […]

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