Shelly Weiss, Brooklyn ‘queer icon’ and progressive Jewish activist, dies at 77
The 'first out lesbian in Park Slope' founded an agency that booked LGBTQ acts on college campuses
The 'first out lesbian in Park Slope' founded an agency that booked LGBTQ acts on college campuses
A daughter of American royalty who helped create a uniquely American 'shtetl'
Modest but significant changes marked the publication of “Sim Shalom” in 1985
When he earned his doctorate in 1967, Chazan led an effort to expand Jewish studies to institutions “all over the country"
Her grandson’s film represented the first time she spoke about her experiences after nearly eight decades
“She didn’t smoke, she ate sensibly, she had good emotional balance and she clearly had remarkable genes,” said her youngest son
Charlop once said that his ideal YU would be “a yeshiva like Volozhin,” a legendary seminary in what is now Belarus, and a university like Columbia
An admired educator whose last public act was a controversial essay on anti-Israel protests at the Ivy League school
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