NYJW Arts

All the hot stuff from Broadway to MOMA

Bridge Over The River Chai

If he could, my husband would order shrimp and cholent in the same meal. Alas, even New York doesn’t have a restaurant that offers both on the same menu. But if there were such an establishment, you’d be sure to find my husband happily chowing simultaneously on glatt kosher and glatt treif. Yes, he’s a […]

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Shades Of Gray

As dusk fell on a Saturday night not long ago, 45 Jewish children and their parents gathered together on the deck outside a retreat center dining room in the northern reaches of Connecticut to bid farewell to the Sabbath. While watching the light of the braided Havdalah candle reflecting in their children’s eyes, many of […]

Circle Of Friends

For his 50th birthday last fall, 120 friends gathered to surprise and honor Jeff Martin. It was a show worthy of Broadway: Friends who work in theater sang to him, others wrote tributes, his drama teacher from Jamaica High School spoke. “It was the kind of memorial I would probably pray to have at my […]

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