Jewish Life Stories: A Rothschild family patriarch, ‘Cookie Rachel’s’ husband and the bard of London’s Jewish East End “Family is the only essential thing and the thing that can survive,” playwright Bernard Kops told the New York Jewish Week in 2013. By Andrew Silow-Carroll February 28, 2024 10:37 am
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Charlie Biton, co-founder of Israeli Black Panthers and first Israeli to meet Arafat, dies at 76 Biton was a member of parliament for 15 years, serving as a symbol of persistent Mizrahi claims against Israel’s Ashkenazi-dominated ruling class. February 26, 2024 6:37 pm
Shelly Weiss, Brooklyn ‘queer icon’ and progressive Jewish activist, dies at 77 By Andrew Silow-Carroll February 26, 2024 2:48 pm
Jewish Life Stories: A Jewish icon of NYC gay life, and the ‘Epstein’ in ‘Epstein-Barr virus’ By Andrew Silow-Carroll February 21, 2024 10:21 am
Chaya Chana Twersky, who helped her husband build a suburban haven for Skverer Hasidim, dies at 81 By Andrew Silow-Carroll February 20, 2024 3:59 pm
Jewish Life Stories: A much-banned kids’ book author, a neo-Hasidic Deadhead, the Jewish father of the artificial Christmas tree By Andrew Silow-Carroll February 14, 2024 10:10 am
Rabbi Jules Harlow, editor of the prayer book used in Conservative synagogues for a quarter century, dies at 92 By Andrew Silow-Carroll February 13, 2024 3:15 pm
Robert Chazan, 87, NYU scholar of medieval Jewry who helped build field of Jewish studies By Andrew Silow-Carroll February 13, 2024 11:06 am
Nina Gottlieb, Holocaust survivor who told her story in an award-winning documentary, dies at 91 By Andrew Silow-Carroll February 7, 2024 5:12 pm