Julia Gergely is a former National Desk Intern at The Forward. She now reports for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Julia Gergely
By Julia Gergely
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Fast Forward If the walls in this Crown Heights house could talk, they’d speak Yiddish
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Mordechai Lightstone and his wife, Chana, are renovating their house in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights — removing walls in the living room, dining room and hallway — so they’ll have plenty of space for guests when they are able to start hosting visitors again. Lightstone, 37 —…
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Fast Forward Meet the 29-year-old Bukharian Jew who quit his Wall Street job to open a pickle shop
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — The first person in his family born in America, Edward Ilyasov spent his childhood in Hillcrest, Queens, watching cooking shows and dreaming of traveling the world. Even as a young boy, Ilyasov, 29, felt he was destined to do something outside of the life path set for him…
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Fast Forward She loves Jewish literature. He loves her. So he proposed in a Yiddish library.
Click here to read a Yiddish version of this article. (JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — David Frisch, 24, had the perfect plan to propose to his girlfriend, Pammy Brenner, while the two were in New York visiting her family. He would get down on one knee in the Lillian Goldman Reading…
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Fast Forward We spoke to the son who wrote the viral obituary for his ‘plus-sized Jewish lady redneck’ mother
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — When Andy Corren’s mother, Renay Mandel Corren, died on Saturday in El Paso, Tex., at age 84, he did what many bereaved children with a creative bent would do: He wrote an obituary. “A more disrespectful, trash-reading, talking and watching woman in NC, FL or TX…
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Fast Forward Watch this ’70s ad for Bernstein on Essex to feel nostalgic for a lost New York
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Throughout her childhood, filmmaker Bex Schwartz heard stories about Bernstein on Essex, a kosher Chinese eatery on the Lower East Side. “The way my family talked about it, I thought that whatever the ‘Bernstein on Essex Street’ is — [it] was just this glowing utopia in…
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Fast Forward Jewish day schools rushed to hold vaccine drives. Mandates may come more slowly
(JTA and New York Jewish Week) — The morning after the Centers for Disease Control recommended a COVID-19 vaccine for children 5 and older, the Abraham Joshua Heschel School on Manhattan’s Upper West Side had news for parents. By Feb. 1, 2022, the school announced, all children eligible for the vaccine must be fully vaccinated….
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Fast Forward Despite looming cream cheese shortage, New York’s bagel shops are still laying it on thick
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Over the weekend, bagel lovers across the five boroughs (read: Jews and everyone else) were shaken to the core when the New York Times announced a cream cheese shortage in the city. It was news no one expected to hear, even in their most dystopian predictions…
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Fast Forward New York City to mandate vaccines for yeshiva and other private school employees
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — New York City has announced a vaccine mandate for employees at yeshivas and other private schools, prompting immediate pushback from haredi Orthodox leaders. The mandate will affect approximately 56,000 workers at New York City’s 930 private schools, which includes Jewish day schools and yeshivas. Mayor Bill…
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