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A new book examines the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire — which a contributor worries his father might have started

If Isidore Abramowitz set off the deadly blaze, his son Martin wants to know for sure.

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The Jewish Museum in New York City.

Workers push to unionize at the Jewish Museum in New York

If the effort succeeds, it would be the second New York Jewish museum to unionize during the pandemic.

Ideas

My father’s lesson: Jews must value labor even when they become management

Rabbi Rachel Timoner: I can quote the Mishnah about our obligation to workers, but the truth is that my father was my primary teacher here.

Politics

Jewish policy umbrella adopts stances on guns and unions at odds with the Trump administration

United States

Rabbis say stop, don’t shop for Passover at popular New England grocer

Culture

The deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire inspires a contemporary composer

Global

Canada’s largest labor union votes to support BDS

United States

Labor protest says Conservative seminary violating its own ethical standards with building project

Philadelphia cemetery

United States

Philadelphia labor unions offer to repair, secure vandalized Jewish cemetery

Harvard Hillel

United States

Harvard Hillel sought a kosher deal for striking food workers

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