Riverdale, NY Jewish teen dies in scuba diving accident
The tight-knit Modern Orthodox community in the Bronx, where Henoch grew up, remembered him as a curious, sensitive and empathetic leader among his peers
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News How A Respected Jewish Educator Preyed On Children For A Half-Century
By his own admission, Stanley S. Rosenfeld, a Jewish educator who worked primarily in New York City and Rhode Island, sexually abused “hundreds” of children — nearly all middle school-aged boys — during his five-decade career. From a beloved summer camp in New Jersey, to elite Orthodox schools in New York, to a small Conservative…
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News Riverdale Teacher Quits ‘On Principle’ After Elite School Scraps Israel Seminar
Long-serving Riverdale Country School history teacher Joel Doerfler told the Forward he quit the elite Bronx private school “on principle” after administrators did not provide an “intellectual, pedagogical or ethical reason(s)” for cancelling a popular Israeli-Palestinian seminar he taught. “I have taught the subject of Israel-Palestine in the same way I have taught all my…
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News Elite Riverdale School Fostered Intense Anti-Israel Climate, Parents Say
More than 100 parents at the elite Riverdale Country School in the Bronx criticized administrators for allowing what they described as intense anti-Israeli sentiment to fester on campus during a packed, emotional meeting the evening of June 11. The assembly was held at the start of the school’s summer break, days after the administration announced…
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Fast Forward Kosher Restaurateur Says Rabbis Shun Him Over Non-Jewish Wife
(JTA) — The owner of a high end, glatt kosher restaurant claimed in a lawsuit that local rabbis are forcing him out of the kosher community because his wife isn’t Jewish. Dimitry Berezovskiy, owner of the Riverdale K Grill House, in a lawsuit filed in Bronx Supreme Court, alleges that his landlord Moses Marx and…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Vandals Hit Riverdale Home Of New York Prosecutor’s Parents
(JTA) — The parents of New York State’s Assistant Attorney General Jenny Michael were attacked with anti-Semitic vandalism. Michael’s father, former New York City Budget Director Philip Michael, discovered the vandalism Sunday morning on the door to the family’s home in a Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx. The word “Jew” was spray painted in large…
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The Schmooze 5 Must-See TV Shows in 2017
Time to borrow your roommate/best friend/significant other/random work colleague’s Netflix password. It’s a new year, and there’s endless new television to binge watch. We’ve picked out just a few shows that you need to check out, each with big name Jewish talent attached. Riverdale John L. Goldwater, the late Jewish creator of “Archie and Pals,”…
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The Schmooze John L. Goldwater’s ‘Archie Comics’ Gets a Darker, Sexier Makeover
Beloved comic book characters Archie, Betty and Veronica are staging a comeback—just not quite in the way John L. Goldwater, the Jewish creator of the “Archie and Pals” series, may have intended. The CW released a trailer for the new series “Riverdale” yesterday, which features an eerie spin on the comic book’s world, complete with…
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