From Advertiser To Lifesaver
by Steve Lipman Staff Writer A middle-aged school administrator in Los Angeles, Hershey Fellig has been battling kidney failure for five years. Feeling tired each day, he was following a strict diet,...
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by Julia Goldman Staff Writer Animal hide is a source of many joys of Judaism. After all, the Torah scroll itself is written on kosher parchment. Still, a celebration of this month's Tu b'Av holiday...
View ArticleAn ‘Angel’ From Alabama
by Sharon Udasin Staff Writer For Marisa Hester, a Pentecostal Christian from Prattville, Ala., choosing an outfit for an ultra-Orthodox Crown Heights wedding wasn’t easy. Sorting through her two sets...
View ArticleLubavitch-Inspired Rabbi Finds New Home
by Sharon Udasin Staff Writer After delivering some 1,500 lectures over the last 10 years on five continents, Brooklyn’s wandering Rabbi Simon Jacobson and his staff are finally ready to settle down....
View ArticleComing Home
by Sandee Brawarsky Jewish Week Book Critic When Florence Greenglass and Sol Dubner converted from Judaism to Catholicism during World War II, it was as though a gate banged shut; neither looked back....
View ArticleHurling Curses Amid The Whitefish
Sharon Udasin Staff Writer Old-timers, new members battling it out for the future of East Village shul.There is nothing remotely community minded about the war that is gripping the Sixth Street...
View ArticleAt Sixth Street, Jew vs. Jew
Sharon Udasin In the fight for control at the Sixth Street Community Synagogue, Round One has gone to new members who say they’re trying to rejuvenate the Orthodox East Village shul.read more
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