Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the Lower East Side, a neighborhood in Manhattan that was a center of Jewish immigrant culture in the 20th century.
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Culture In an Eldridge Street mosaic, a reminder of a great Jewish artist
Mark Podwal, who died at 79, wanted people to see one of his last major works
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Culture She was a nice Jewish mother — and an organized-crime boss
Meet Fredericka Mandelbaum, who made a fortune from stolen goods and bank robberies
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Forverts in English Training the ‘Hester Street’ actors how to pronounce their Yiddish lines
Yiddish dialogue coach Miriam Isaacs found the actors, especially the children, in the new play quick and eager learners.
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Forverts in English How my family built a bank for the Lower East Side — and then destroyed it
Growing up, I had no clue about my family's role in the 1917 collapse of the Jarmulowsky Bank
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Culture ‘An ethereal presence’: An artist gives the women of the old Lower East Side new life
At the Eldridge Street Synagogue, artist Adrienne Ottenberg pays homage to turn-of-the-century Jewish women
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Culture Why do Jews eat Chinese food on Christmas?
American Jews have a long history of breaking out the chopsticks in late December
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Culture Finally, an event to honor the only American Girl doll who eats challah and owns a samovar
The Museum of Jewish Heritage held a meet-up for owners of Rebecca Rubin, an American Girl doll with a Jewish immigrant story — and accessories to match
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Art The most beautiful new bagel shop in New York doesn’t have any bagels in it
British artist Lucy Sparrow’s Lower East Side pop-up, Feltz Bagels, is made completely out of felt and paint, down to the last sesame seed
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Culture Why saying ‘L’shana Tova’ on Rosh Hashanah may not be the correct phrase
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Opinion With killing of Hezbollah’s chief, Israel occupies the inarguable moral high ground
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Culture A Jewish prophet of the 1980s would be horrified to see that we didn’t heed his warnings
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Fast Forward Meet Lev Kreitman, who brought down Tel Aviv shooter and survived Nova music festival on Oct. 7
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Opinion A year after Oct. 7, Israel has the chance to remake its future — for better or worse
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Opinion Campus protests defined the year since Oct. 7. Could they actually change U.S. policy?
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Special Report At the kibbutz hit hardest on Oct. 7, a wrenching debate over how to rebuild
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Opinion Oct. 7 changed Israel. A year later, it must change American Jews, too
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