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He Survived the Holocaust and Ran a Popular NYC Disco, Only To be Fatally Bludgeoned At 90
Read about Holocaust survivor Felix Brinkmann, who escaped death in gas chambers, became a popular New York City disco owner ...
Was the Jewish Bronx the ‘paradise’ that it seemed? | COMMENTARY
The Bronx, like its Jewish community, didn’t disappear, but became something new, first for the worse, then for the better.
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Unique Yad Vashem exhibit and street naming highlight NYC’s commitment to remember the Holocaust
A unique Holocaust art exhibition opened this week in New York’s City Hall. In “The Wandering Jew,” a 1947 oil-and-canvas painting by Dutch artist Eliazer Neuberger, a barefoot man wearing torn ...
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Was the Jewish Bronx the ‘paradise’ that it seemed?
A new book charts the rise and fall of a short-lived haven for working-class immigrants and their soon-to-be upwardly mobile ...
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A Long Career in Black Rock Music Comes to a Tragic End in the Bronx
As bullets fly, the grandmother in the song tells the singer that becoming a musician can “get you out the ghetto” and off ... as an ambulette driver in New York City, transporting older ...
NYC Holocaust survivors react to horrifying images of released Israeli hostages, evoking painful memories: ‘Warehouse of the living dead’
They survived Hitler and the Holocaust – but these Jewish New Yorkers never imagined they’d witness images evoking the ...
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Denmark shows how Labour can defeat the populist right
The hyperactivity of the second Trump administration continues apace; like a bureaucratic catherine wheel, it spins and spins, spitting out executive orders in place of sparks. Some of the most absurd ...
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This year’s 'It' coat? NYC influencers say it’s a $1,300 puffer.
It has become so associated with New York City street fashion that one of the original innovators in hip-hop’s “ghetto fabulous ... Canada, and East Africa, who explores identity, cultural ...
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50 years after its debut, ‘Hester Street’ reminds us what it means to be a Jew in America
Based on the 1896 novella Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto, by Forward founder and ... congested Lower East Side; and his wife Gitl (Carol Kane), who has just arrived from Russia with their ...
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Slog AM: Egg Thieves Hit West Seattle Cafe, A Radical Super Bowl, A Bent Galaxy
Foxes in the hen house: West Seattle's Luna Park Cafe was the victim of egg theft last week. Thieves stole more than 500 eggs ...