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All her life, she sang other people’s songs. Now Sheila Dardashti is releasing her own music for the first time.

The matriarch of a musical family and a grandmother of seven, Dardashti will debut “Build Me a Home” at a Westchester synagogue on Sunday.

Road Trip

You can fill up on kosher cholent at this NJ gas station

Snaxit, a kosher convenience store located on New Jersey Route 4, gets especially busy whenever there’s “a simcha in the city or upstate,” according to the store’s manager.

Where to find a Passover seder in NYC in 2025

Celebrate Passover in New York with a seder-inspired restaurant dinner, an online seder or a post-Passover musical Mimouna.

Here’s why hospitals ask you your religion — and why Jews shouldn’t be afraid to answer

Central Park’s Wollman Rink, which the Trump Organization hopes to run again, was named for this Jewish family

B&H Photo, iconic Hasidic-owned electronics store in Midtown, is getting even bigger

Leonard Bernstein faces his longtime rival in a new play

Rabbi Eliyahu Fink, compassionate voice in the Orthodox world, dies in road accident at 43

Manischewitz launches a food truck in New York City

7 Jewish historical treasures from YIVO’s vast collection in New York

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