Synagogues are coming to terms with slave labor
Steve LipmanSep 14, 2023
America's oldest synagogues, Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island and Kahal Kadosh Beth Eloh-m (KKBE) in Charleston, South Carolina, are coming to terms with slave...
Masbia soup kitchen seeks to feed asylum-seekers from distressed nations
Steve LipmanAug 10, 2023
During the past year, New York soup kitchen Masbia, whose volunteers and staff members have joined those from a few other local refugee-protection and human rights...
The righteous: They risked their lives to save Jews
Steve LipmanMay 11, 2023
One would think that someone who grew up in the US and spent three years travelling thousands of miles overseas and pouring through tens of thousands of documents and...
Ode to the matzah ball
Steve LipmanMar 30, 2023
PASSOVER EDITION 5783 SECTION C PAGE 15 Call it the Case of the Battling Bubbes. Friends of mine, a young couple, invited me to a Friday night Shabbos meal in […]
Ukraine — stories from one year of war
Steve LipmanFeb 23, 2023
The world on Feb. 24 will mark a sad anniversary — a year since Russia invaded Ukraine, a once-fellow republic in the Soviet Union.
In Ukraine, Chanukah candles are needed for heat, not just light
Steve LipmanDec 22, 2022
In the days before Chanukah, which started Dec. 18, a few men and women from two Conservative institutions in Israel traveled to the small Jewish community in...
Before he was King, Charles was patron of Cracow’s JCC
Steve LipmanSep 22, 2022
The founder of one of the first US-style Jewish community centers in the former-communist Eastern Europe, formed after the Iron Curtain fell three decades ago, says the...
Greeting migrants
Steve LipmanSep 01, 2022
The first sight that many of the migrants who have arrived over the last few weeks at the Port Authority bus terminal in Manhattan after a long ride from the southern US...
NBA Draft — a Yeshiva player?
Steve LipmanJun 16, 2022
The National Basketball Association will hold its annual draft of college players this week. The talk in Jewish circles this year centers around one athlete and one...
Ukrainian Jewry: A glorious past — and the future?
Steve LipmanMay 12, 2022
The war in Ukraine, making refugees of millions of people from a country with a rich Jewish past, raises a question about Ukrainian Jewry’s future. What sort of Jewish...
