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In Epstein’s birthday tribute, traces of his Jewish upbringing surface alongside lurid tales

The disgraced financier’s birthday book reveals his Jewish name, Yudel, and shows him squeezing an accordion at a bar mitzvah.

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Jewish real estate developers convene emergency meeting to support Andrew Cuomo

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Mamdani backs a permanent end to NYC investment in Israel bonds

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Eric Adams says he’s staying in NYC mayor’s race, tamping down reports that Trump could make him ambassador to Saudi Arabia

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Gaza drama about Hind Rajab wins Grand Jury Prize at Venice Film Festival

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Gael Garcia Bernal, Ayo Edebiri among 1,200 Hollywood stars pledging to boycott Israeli film institutions

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Emma Stone walks the red carpet in Venice

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Emma Stone, Jonathan Glazer join growing list of Hollywood figures boycotting Israeli film institutions

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Israeli-Russian Princeton student Elizabeth Tsurkov freed from captivity in Iraq

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In a first, Israel airstrikes target Hamas leaders in Qatar, a Gaza ceasefire broker

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Ahead of mayoral election, Brooklyn synagogue demands voter registration to attend High Holiday services

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Robert Jay Lifton, pioneering scholar of Nazi doctors and Jewish memory, dies at 99

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LA Holocaust museum retracts social media post that said, ‘Never again can’t only mean never again for Jews’

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This is how New Yorkers celebrated the High Holidays at the turn of the 20th century

The cast of "The Matriarchs," which opens at Theaterlab on Sept. 10 and plays through Sept. 28. (Miranda Jackel)

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Women of the Torah step into the spotlight as contemporary bat mitzvah girls in a new play

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Russ & Daughters celebrates 111 years of Jewish New York history with a new cookbook

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6 shot to death at Jerusalem bus stop in city’s deadliest attack in nearly 2 years

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Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders talk Gaza war, pro-Palestinian protests at Brooklyn College

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Hundreds of scholars call on genocide scholars group to retract declaration of genocide in Gaza

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Trump says US in ‘deep negotiation’ with Hamas ahead of impending Gaza City takeover

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In Epstein’s birthday tribute, traces of his Jewish upbringing surface alongside lurid tales

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Jewish real estate developers convene emergency meeting to support Andrew Cuomo

Mamdani backs a permanent end to NYC investment in Israel bonds

Eric Adams says he’s staying in NYC mayor’s race, tamping down reports that Trump could make him ambassador to Saudi Arabia

More News

Gaza drama about Hind Rajab wins Grand Jury Prize at Venice Film Festival

Gael Garcia Bernal, Ayo Edebiri among 1,200 Hollywood stars pledging to boycott Israeli film institutions

ISRAEL

Emma Stone, Jonathan Glazer join growing list of Hollywood figures boycotting Israeli film institutions

Israeli-Russian Princeton student Elizabeth Tsurkov freed from captivity in Iraq

In a first, Israel airstrikes target Hamas leaders in Qatar, a Gaza ceasefire broker

Ahead of mayoral election, Brooklyn synagogue demands voter registration to attend High Holiday services

Robert Jay Lifton, pioneering scholar of Nazi doctors and Jewish memory, dies at 99

LA Holocaust museum retracts social media post that said, ‘Never again can’t only mean never again for Jews’

New York Jewish Week

This is how New Yorkers celebrated the High Holidays at the turn of the 20th century

Women of the Torah step into the spotlight as contemporary bat mitzvah girls in a new play

Russ & Daughters celebrates 111 years of Jewish New York history with a new cookbook

6 shot to death at Jerusalem bus stop in city’s deadliest attack in nearly 2 years

Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders talk Gaza war, pro-Palestinian protests at Brooklyn College

Hundreds of scholars call on genocide scholars group to retract declaration of genocide in Gaza

Trump says US in ‘deep negotiation’ with Hamas ahead of impending Gaza City takeover

From the Archives

Arab Protesters Bring Sydney to Standstill

Bush Pressing for Cease-fire

Meridor: Hamas Terrorists Are Like Rapists

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