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Manhattan Ben & Jerry’s store loses customers • JTS defends sale of rare artifact • Israel Baseball’s Queens connection

Good morning, New York. Here’s what you need to know to start your New York Jewish day, in about 4 minutes: IVORY TOWER Some librarians and scholars are objecting to the Jewish Theological Seminary’s sale of a rare Hebrew manuscript. The Manhattan-based seminary’s library shut down in 2016 for a campus redevelopment project. Bibliophiles worried that JTS […]

By New York Jewish Week Staff July 28, 2021 8:58 am

CUNY profs quit union over anti-Israel resolution • Brad Lander backs Ben & Jerry’s • Brooklyn native is last victim of condo collapse

Good morning, New York. Mazel tov to Bette Midler, the latest Kennedy Center honoree, who once said, “I’m working my way toward divinity.” NEW YORK, NEW YORK At least 50 professors at the City University of New York have quit their union following passage of a resolution condemning Israel. The one-sided June 10 resolution, introduced in the wake […]

July 27, 2021 8:10 am

What made Jackie Mason great — and controversial • Gristedes sanctions Ben & Jerry’s • Anti-Israel protest fizzles

Good morning, New York! Today we remember a comic legend who, for better or worse, represented an iconic New York Jewish life. JACKIE MASON DIES Jackie Mason, who died here Saturday at 93, was one of the last survivors of the Borscht Belt comedy circuit. Mason, born Yacov Moshe Maza to Orthodox immigrant parents and raised […]

July 26, 2021 8:33 am

The ledger of the burial society of Cluj, Romania. (Kestenbaum & Company)

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