Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA

Andrew Waxman, a banking and risk management consultant, has written what amounts to a field guide to the varieties of being and praying Jewish in New York City. For My Year in New York Synagogues, he spent his Friday evenings and Shabbat mornings in 2025 visiting nearly every synagogue within walking distance of his home on the Upper West Side.

John Galliano withdrew from a planned exhibition of his work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in response to an escalating controversy over the museum’s decision to honor the fashion designer despite his history of anti-Semitic and racist remarks.

Before the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that it would honor fashion designer John Galliano with a major Costume Institute exhibition next spring, the museum convened at least two unusual meetings: a face-to-face with Galliano and a number of prominent rabbis, and a larger meeting with the recently retired Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, museum officials and several prominent Jewish leaders.

The Jewish Theological Seminary has named Rabbi Mike Uram as its next chancellor, elevating a Jewish educator best known for his time as executive director of the University of Pennsylvania Hillel.

Under liberal Zionism, support for Israel was based on a commitment to Jewish self-determination anchored in democracy, and animated by the promise of peace with the Palestinians. On Jan. 6 in Manhattan, rabbis and Jewish thinkers gathered to ask whether liberal Zionism is collapsing.