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The New York Jewish Week is the home of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s New York coverage.

‘Suffs’ creator Shaina Taub cites Jewish text in Tony Awards acceptance speech

In taped remarks, Alex Edelman accepted a Special Tony for “Just For Us” and related the themes of his one-man show to the conflict in “Israel and Palestine.”

Heather Conn Hendel, 48, teacher, caregiver, matchmaker and newlywed, dies days after giving birth

Conn Hendel was very involved in her New York City synagogue before moving shortly before her death to Toronto.

A citizenship class for Jewish immigrants at Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America (HIAS), Lower East Side, New York City, February 16, 1920. (Courtesy/YIVO Institute for Jewish Research)

Jewish immigrant men abandoned their wives in droves a century ago. Their stories are getting a new look

A new YIVO exhibit, “Runaway Husbands, Desperate Families: The Story of the National Desertion Bureau,” examines a lesser-known aspect of Jewish immigrant life in the U.S.