Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish community in New York state, home to the most Jews of any U.S. state.
See also: New York City
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish community in New York state, home to the most Jews of any U.S. state.
See also: New York City
Mikhl Baran grew up with Yiddish. Now 91, he says of Oshmiany, the town in Lithuania where he was born, “Even the stones spoke Yiddish in our little shtetl.” Anthony Russell discovered the language in his thirties. A gay, African-American singer of opera, he stumbled across Yiddish cantorial singing during a mid-career crisis, and says…
(Haaretz) — The most outrageous snapshots from any given Pride parade tend to be the most popular – six-foot drag queens (seven, if you count heels and hair,) chiseled go-go dancers in mini-Speedos, loads of glitter. It is an event that has come to be defined by party boys. But ahead of New York Pride…
(JTA) — Robert Neulander, a Syracuse, N.Y., physician active in his local Jewish community, was indicted this week in the murder of his wife. Whether the 62-year-old Robert Neulander — who chaired his local federation’s campaign and has served on the board of his JCC — is found guilty or innocent in the Sept. 17,…
An advertisement calling for the return of three kidnapped Israeli teens is running on a digital billboard in Times Square. “On June 12th, 2014, three teenage boys were kidnapped in Israel, one of them an American citizen,” reads the 40-foot-by-40-foot ad purchased by the Young Israel of the West Side, an Orthodox synagogue in Manhattan….
(Reuters) — Eli Wallach, an early practitioner of method acting who made a lasting impression as the scuzzy bandit Tuco in “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”, died on Tuesday at the age of 98, the New York Times reported. Wallach appeared on the big screen well into his 90s in Roman Polanski’s “The…
The Jewish community of Syracuse, New York, was stunned by the news that Robert Neulander, a prominent obstetrician, was charged with the 2012 murder of his wife, Leslie Neulander. Despite reports that police were eyeing Robert Neulander in the death, many local leaders called his June 23 arrest a major shock, especially given his activism…
An Orthodox Jewish woman in New York has launched a campaign on social media to force her husband to give her a religious divorce. Friends of Rivky Stein, 24, of Brooklyn, launched a Facebook page earlier this month calling on her common-law husband, Yoel Weiss, 31, to grant her the get. Stein married Weiss in…
A prominent physician active in the Syracuse, N.Y., Jewish community was indicted for the September 2012 murder of his wife. Robert Neulander, 62, was indicted on charges of second-degree murder and tampering with physical evidence, Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick said at a news conference Monday. Neulander, an obstetrician who has delivered thousands of…
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