Selected Work
Profiles
Theater
- A Holocaust survivor and her family saw ‘Leopoldstadt.’ The Broadway play told their story.
- A Manhattan synagogue played an unlikely role in the genesis of ‘Job,’ a new Broadway play
- Steven Skybell’s Jewish story shines at the heart of Broadway’s ‘Cabaret’ revival
- Broadway’s Jews gather in response to neo-Nazi protest
- Actor Danny Burstein dishes on his latest Jewish role on Broadway
- Broadway stars to perform songs written during the Holocaust at Carnegie Hall
Food
- At Brooklyn’s Agi’s Counter, a Hungarian Jewish grandma inspires upscale dining
- Williamsburg Israeli restaurant Mesiba lives up to its name, which means ‘party’ in Hebrew
- Lower East Side shop Economy Candy offers a sweet taste of another era
- A Sephardic kosher chef showcases his Libyan-Jewish heritage on PBS cooking show
- Falafel Tanami had its regulars. Then the New York Times declared it the best falafel in NYC.
- Israeli sandwich shop Sherry Herring goes belly up on the UWS
- Glace, a new Upper East Side ice cream shop, carries on the Zabar family tradition
- When it comes to a classic Jewish cookie, New York bakeries go beyond black and white
Features
- A new group is a safe space for observant Jews who oppose Israel’s war in Gaza
- A Tribeca gallery is showcasing art about antisemitism, including a Hitler-Kanye West portrait
- ‘Club 2600’ is Brooklyn’s hottest party — for Holocaust survivors
- Meet the Jewish family that operates Manhattan’s oldest and only typewriter repair shop
- A new program addresses a growing opioid crisis in the Bukharian community**
- The German Consulate in NYC welcomes its newest citizens: Jewish New Yorkers
- These queer newlyweds are modeling Jewish joy for LGBTQ youth**
- Jewish groups mobilize amid growing migrant crisis in NYC
- Why Jews are flocking to Loop, a new dating app where users do the matchmaking
- This tight-knit Jewish family has run Mendel Goldberg Fabrics since 1890
- Tradition! Young adults on the Upper West Side flock to a new, independent Shabbat service**
- These Holocaust survivors were once classmates in a DP camp. They just reunited after 76 years.
- How a Catholic university amassed a treasure trove of Jewish artifacts from the Bronx
- Feeling excluded from this year’s NYC Dyke March, Jewish lesbians host their own Pride party
- In Brooklyn’s ‘Little Odessa,’ Jews from Ukraine and Russia find the war ‘terrifying’
- With help from a Jewish agency, a Coney Island program fights street violence one kid at a time
**received a Rockower Award from American Jewish Press Association