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 A Holocaust survivor celebrates her 100th birthday at a Queens synagogue
Hannah Deutch escaped Germany via the Kindertransport and gave back to Great Britain as an army nurse
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News Lacking pride clubs at their schools, LGBT orthodox teens in NYC come here for community
Many queer students have felt that they need to tone down their identities at Orthodox schools. JQY is trying to change that.
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News With the help of a NYC synagogue, two young Ukrainian Jewish refugees will soon marry in Israel
Yakov Poluden and Malka Bukreeva barely got along — until the war forced them to flee to Belarus and Israel.
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Fast Forward Progressive rabbis demonstrated for workers’ rights — and a Hasidic-owned company listened
It’s rare for both sides to sit down for a meeting right away, said an organizer.
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Fast Forward State Supreme Court sides with mother in dispute over son’s yeshiva education
A new ruling directs the city and state to finish their probe of how secular subjects are taught at a Williamsburg yeshiva.
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Music Israeli singer Bat Ella to bring her Hebrew versions of Debbie Friedman’s songs to NYC
To mark the 11th anniversary of the American singer-songwriter’s death, the Israeli musician will perform her versions of Friedman’s music at Park Avenue Synagogue.
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Fast Forward Junior’s, NYC’s iconic Jewish cheesecake emporium, buys back guns to protect the city it loves
A Brooklyn boy's death inspires the third-generation owner of the restaurant with deep roots in the borough
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Fast Forward This private, on-demand ‘hot rabbi’ may soon star in her own reality TV show
Reese Witherspoon’s media company has taken interest in Rabbi Becky Eisenstadt’s peripatetic pulpit.
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