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Knitting legend Rose Girone, world’s oldest Holocaust survivor, dies at 113

The longtime Queens resident, who ran a knitting shop in Forest Hills, fled Poland and Germany for Shanghai before immigrating to the U.S. in 1947.

Influential Jewish comics legend Will Eisner gets a retrospective in Chelsea

Seventy-nine works by “the father of the graphic novel” are on view at Philippe Labaune Gallery on West 24th Street.

US President Donald Trump speaks to journalists in the Oval Office on January 20, 2025. (Jim WATSON / POOL / AFP)

Trump orders sanctions on International Criminal Court personnel

Trump signed it during a Washington, D.C. visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom the court is seeking to arrest for war crimes in Gaza.

Trump picks lawyer and Fox contributor Leo Terrell to lead federal antisemitism task force

An UES street corner gets a new name — after a Holocaust museum in Israel

Hebrew Union College sells its Greenwich Village building to NYU for $75 million

Teen novel about women vampires wins a top prize for Jewish children’s books

Jared Kushner set to double stake in leading Israeli financial firm

8 fascinating Jewish news stories from 2024 that you might have missed

In Michigan, Jewish and Muslim students come together despite their differences

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