Judaism

Morning Report 7/23/05
The War on Tourism

Queens Torah Thief Sentenced to 1 Year

This just in: A man is going to jail for a year for stealing Torahs. Twenty-four-year old Eric Giraldo was a janitor at The Jewish Center at Kew Gardens Hills, a synagogue in Queens, when he got the idea that he could make some money by stealing the congregation's Torahs and selling them on the blac ... More >>

My Father, My Lord's Spiritual Crisis

David Volanch's struggle with fundamentalism

The Saturday Stroll

David Volanch's struggle with fundamentalism

New York Jewish Film Festival Reflects a Semitic Identity Crisis

David Volanch's struggle with fundamentalism

Michael Chabon's Heavy-Handed Gentlemen of the Road

They Semite Be Giants—next up from the Jewish New Wave Gentlemen of the Road

Hillary's Crown Heights Problem

If Rudy Giuliani plays the race card, he most likely will try to attack Former Mayor David Dinkins's legacy in one of the city's ethnic hotbeds

Hynes and His ‘Haman’

Orthodox Jews, Angered Over Recent Cases, Up in Arms Against Brooklyn D.A.

Al Sharpton’s Jewish Problem

So What’s Not to Like?

Rabbis Against Torture

Invoking centuries of Jewish law, hundreds of American rabbis confront Bush

Holy Daze

Rebecca Segall investigates the problems of young Lubavitcher Hasidim in a world without the Rebbe

Sikh and You Shall Find

The American face of arranged marriage.

Deliverance

The American face of arranged marriage.

Judaism in the Air

Taking Torah on the road

Lyrical Devotion

A Jewish group builds a temple to verse

Jewish Soul, American Beat

A Jewish group builds a temple to verse

Hillary 'Banned' In Crown Heights

The First Lady's embrace of Former Mayor David Dinkins ignites an orthodox Jewish backlash

'Farrakhan Jews'

Anti-Zionist Hasidim in Landmark Meeting With Nation of Islam Leader

Winning Is Fundamental

Lieberman Signals a Right Turn; Hillary Follows Close Behind

World of Our Mothers

An Artist Returns to Her Ancestral Synagogue

The Silence of the Left

Why Liberal Jews Have Lost Their Courage on Israel

Vested Interests

Why Liberal Pols Run to the Right on Israel

Conflicts of Interest

Why Liberal Pols Run to the Right on Israel

Truth and Reconciliation

Orthodox Eyes on ‘G-d’

Faded Rage

As a Divided Community Begins to Forget, a Court Reopens Old Wounds in Crown Heights

Day of Attunement

Observing 9-11 The Jewish Way

Up in Arms

Israelis Flock to Buy Guns, Pack Heat at Services

The Sharer of Secrets

Anonymous Blog Cracks Window Into Hasidic Community

Religious Conversion

The Synagogue That Thomas Friedman Built

Fiddling With Fiddler

Can the Broadway Revival of Everyone's Favorite Jewish Musical Ignore Today's Radically Different Cultural Context?

The String That Binds

The Kabbalah centre wants your heart—and your money

Forward Backlash

Rumors, promises, and tears as a Russian-Jewish newspaper is sold, and veteran staffers exit

Honorary Jew

Hillary Clinton becomes kosher for a community that had its doubts

The Fall of the House of Rubashkin

As the nation's largest kosher empire implodes, Brooklyn's ultra-Orthodox Jews begin to break ranks

The Crown Heights Lubavitchers

Ecstatic Jews, a messiah proclaimed, and the consequential divisions

Ignorance Is Bris

The Deity replies to Foreskin's Lament, Shalom Auslander's fall-from-Orthodox memoir

Get Down, Moses

Upstart local Jewish musicians weave a coat of many colors

Kosher Market

Upstart local Jewish musicians weave a coat of many colors

The Scientologists

After Scientology: completion. Things aren't a mess in the apartment.

Jail Scandal Revelation: They Needed a Minyan!

In case you were wondering why all the Orthodox Jewish inmates ended up in the city jail in Manhattan known as the Tombs, where they could enjoy special treatment, we think we have an answer. Supposedly, an inmate is an inmate is an inmate, barring medical and security issues, and the rules say the ... More >>

Modern Jewish Dilemmas Aired in The Rashevski Tango

In case you were wondering why all the Orthodox Jewish inmates ended up in the city jail in Manhattan known as the Tombs, where they could enjoy special treatment, we think we have an answer. Supposedly, an inmate is an inmate is an inmate, barring medical and security issues, and the rules say the ... More >>

Jazzy Rabbi Greg Wall Caught in Middle As Jews Feud Over East Village Synagogue's Future

Jews are hurling curses at one another in a bitter fight between old-timers and new members over a recruitment drive to save the ailing Sixth Street Community Synagogue in the East Village. At a recent meeting at the 70-year-old shul, congregants were practically throwing bagels and whitefish at on ... More >>

What's Up The Jews' Asses on Yom Kippur?

​Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement for The Jews -- of which New York City has many -- is coming at this city faster than a first-time Brooklyn Tornado. For some Jews, it can't come fast enough -- funny, because The Jews fast on Yom Kippur -- which has something to do with why some Jews in New Y ... More >>

Shyne Insists the Torah is Fine With Lamborghinis

Ricki Rosen for NYT​"The tall man in the velvet fedora and knee-length black jacket with ritual fringes" taking "long, swift strides toward the Western Wall" in today's New York Times is not Knicks basketball star Amare Stoudemire, who discovered his Hebrew roots over the summer. It's Brooklyn ... More >>

How Can a Religious Person Justify Being a Slumlord?

Ricki Rosen for NYT​"The tall man in the velvet fedora and knee-length black jacket with ritual fringes" taking "long, swift strides toward the Western Wall" in today's New York Times is not Knicks basketball star Amare Stoudemire, who discovered his Hebrew roots over the summer. It's Brooklyn ... More >>

Jewmongous

Ricki Rosen for NYT​"The tall man in the velvet fedora and knee-length black jacket with ritual fringes" taking "long, swift strides toward the Western Wall" in today's New York Times is not Knicks basketball star Amare Stoudemire, who discovered his Hebrew roots over the summer. It's Brooklyn ... More >>

Ghetto Bards: Romeo & Juliet in Yiddish and Sholem Aleichem

Ricki Rosen for NYT​"The tall man in the velvet fedora and knee-length black jacket with ritual fringes" taking "long, swift strides toward the Western Wall" in today's New York Times is not Knicks basketball star Amare Stoudemire, who discovered his Hebrew roots over the summer. It's Brooklyn ... More >>

A Strange and Separate People: Un-Orthodox Jews

An earlier play by the author of The Temperamentals

The Shomrim: Gotham's Crusaders

They patrol Jewish neighborhoods with taxpayer money—but don't always clue in the police

There Are Sukkahs in Times Square to Celebrate Sukkot

​Sukkot is an eight day-long Jewish holiday that this year goes from October 12th to the 21st. One of the traditions of the holiday is the building of a sukkah, a walled, tent-like structure covered in plant material. The sukkah is intended as a memorial of sorts of the time the Israelites spe ... More >>