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Fast Forward New York says 18 yeshivas provide inadequate education. Advocates say they’re not the only ones
An Orthodox-led reform group encouraged further investigation after the NYC Department of Education found inadequate secular education in private yeshivas
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News For Jewish seniors who can’t visit loved ones’ graves on their own, free rides and a prayer book
Dorot, the New York-based nonprofit, has resumed its program to help scores of elderly make the trip to the cemetery
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News NYC mayor’s office rebuts critique that his Jewish advisory council overrepresents the Orthodox and men
Eric Adams called on Jewish New Yorkers ‘who believe they could make impactful change' to apply to join
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Fast Forward In a first, NYC mayor launches Jewish advisory council
The panel of 37 members will be chaired by Joel Eisdorfer, a member of the Hasidic community and the mayor’s senior adviser
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Culture Director Mira Nair wanted an Indian ‘Fiddler on the Roof.’ The result: ‘Monsoon Wedding, The Musical’
A theatrical adaptation of the hit film 'Monsoon Wedding' ends its run this weekend in Brooklyn
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Theater Young Jews grapple with how to remember what some Holocaust survivors would rather forget
A new play explores the tension between a mandate to 'never forget' and the impossibility of remembering
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Fast Forward CUNY union endorses City Council member who’s ‘promoted extreme anti-Israel positions’
CUNY's Professional Staff Congress endorses Charles Barron for reelection in Brooklyn
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News Shocked about Giuliani’s attack on Passover? Here’s a quick history of his relationship with Jews
During four decades in the public eye, the former New York City mayor has both connected with and revolted Jewish New Yorkers
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Culture Why saying ‘L’shana Tova’ on Rosh Hashanah may not be the correct phrase
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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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Opinion With killing of Hezbollah’s chief, Israel occupies the inarguable moral high ground
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Opinion This is the most disorienting Rosh Hashanah in memory
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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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