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 This Jewish photographer was the ‘unlikely’ chronicler of New York’s Chinatown
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Photographer Emile Bocian grew up the son of Polish Jewish immigrants in New York. But when he died in 1990 at 78, he left an unlikely legacy as a chronicler of Manhattan’s bustling Chinatown. A photographer by hobby, if not vocation, Bocian took some 80,000 to…
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Fast Forward Ezra Goldstein, literary tastemaker who saved Brooklyn’s oldest independent bookstore, is retiring
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) – When he was 60 years old, Ezra Goldstein never expected to start a new career running a bookstore. But that’s exactly what happened when he took over Park Slope’s Community Bookstore, the oldest independent bookstore in Brooklyn, in 2009. The unexpected turn of events turned out…
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Fast Forward ‘Gazpacho Police’ is now an original klezmer song
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Since Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene’s “gazpacho police” gaffe went viral in an interview earlier this week, jokes, memes, snarky tweets and the like have circulated far and wide across the internet. And just when we thought the joke had gone cold (get it?), we caught wind…
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Fast Forward New York is lifting its mask mandates. Will synagogues follow suit?
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — New York State’s mask mandate — which required businesses to ask patrons for proof of vaccination or keep masks on all times while indoors — expired on Thursday. The shift has opened a window of opportunity for local synagogues to revisit their own masking policies, just…
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Fast Forward Five Orthodox New Yorkers sign on to a lawsuit challenging the city’s COVID-19 vaccine requirements
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) – Five Orthodox Jewish New Yorkers have joined a suit challenging the city’s vaccine requirements for indoor spaces. Two of the plaintiffs are rabbis at yeshivas. The suit, filed Feb. 7 in New York, challenges the “Key to NYC” program and a recent Covid vaccination mandate for religious…
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Fast Forward A millennial Yiddish music maven launches a record label
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) – Steadfast listeners of “Borscht Beat” — a weekly FM radio show featuring Jewish music, old and new — will be thrilled to hear of host Aaron Bendich’s latest project: a new Jewish record label of the same name. On his hour-long radio program, the 27-year-old plays…
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Fast Forward A Jewish school for kids with learning disabilities is building big in Manhattan
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — The Shefa School, a Jewish school for students with learning disabilities whose Hebrew name means “abundance,” is living up to its moniker. On a chilly Tuesday morning on the Upper West Side, Shefa staff and families celebrated the beginning of construction on a new campus at…
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Fast Forward ‘Antisemitic, anti-Jewish and anti-Israel’: CUNY professors sue faculty union over controversial resolution
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Calling their faculty union “anti-Semitic, anti-Jewish, and anti-Israel,” six professors at the City University of New York have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit challenging what they call the union’s “monopoly” power to represent them. The suit stems from a June 2021 resolution from the union,…
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