Israeli kids with life-threatening illnesses find respite from war at Catskills camp
Along with the medical treatment, Camp Simcha aims to give ailing children a regular Jewish camp experience
Along with the medical treatment, Camp Simcha aims to give ailing children a regular Jewish camp experience
For longtime Catskills residents, the fires are resurfacing grief over a fading chapter in American Jewish history
An illustrated deep dive into the 1987 film that brought the Jewish Catskills to the masses
Jeremy Dauber's 'Disobedient Jew' demonstrates why the comic and filmmaker's work was markedly different in his early years
In the 'Dirty Dancing' star's memoir, she dishes on her fateful surgery and her Jewish identity
All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business By Mel Brooks Ballantine Books, 480 pages, $25 Mel Brooks’ memoir begins with a promise. In a preface, the 95-year-old actor-writer-director vows to make an intimate confession to his reader — one not to be shared with anyone. Then, he thinks a bit more about the…
Half a century after their heyday, the Catskills are having a moment. “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” recently devoted the bulk of a season to the Jewish Alps’ tummling past. The passing of comedian Jackie Mason recalled a bygone era, when families fled urban sprawls to get some mountain air and kibbitz with their coreligionists in…
Two children were reportedly kidnapped in Upstate New York on Saturday morning after attempting to escape from the Ultra-Orthodox cult Lev Tahor, The Yeshiva World reported. Two children of the Teller family, which fled from the ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect in Guatemala, were spending the weekly holiday with a family in the Catskills, sources told YWN….