A queer Israeli textile artist’s Lavender Diaspora sukkah explores identity in Brooklyn
Hilla Shapira's ripstop sukkah survived the record rainstorm unscathed.
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News about New York’s religious Jewish communities and synagogues.
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Alice Shalvi pioneered religious feminism in Israel. Everyone else is still catching up.
The German-born scholar, who died Monday at 96, pioneered feminist ideas in Israel in the early 1970s when there were only a handful of women doing such work.
Flash floods put a dangerous damper on the first night of Sukkot in NYC
The holiday that starts Friday night is meant to be celebrated outside. But rain has triggered a state of emergency.
