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Harry Belafonte, singer and civil rights activist who popularized ‘Hava Nagila’ in the US, dies at 96

The New York native, who was close friends with Martin Luther King Jr., had many Jewish connections.

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Here’s how New York City is celebrating Yom Haatzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day

From dances to panel discussions, there are many ways to fete Israel’s 75th birthday in NYC.

The fuzzy, neurotic, unmistakably Jewish legacy of cartoonist Ed Koren

The late New Yorker contributor was once called the “poet laureate of the Upper West Side.”

Harrison Bader and Marcus Samuelsson selfie

Jewish Yankee Harrison Bader talks baseball over matzah ball soup and pastrami at Liebman’s Deli

7 standout items from a new exhibit celebrating Yiddish New York

The mysterious disappearance of Yemenite children in Israel is the focus of a new play

Politician who called herself ‘mother of the politically incorrect’ offered Israel’s top diplomatic post in NYC

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2 Jewish delis and a modest falafel joint are among the ‘100 best restaurants in NYC’

A Holocaust cattle car in Times Square makes a moving, if jarring, statement

El Al Airplane

Over flight intercom, El Al pilot links Israel’s judicial reform to the Holocaust

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