New York

Jewish Life Stories: Hettie Jones, one half of a Beat generation power couple, dies at 90

A Queens native who wrote an acclaimed memoir about her marriage to playwright LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka).

By Andrew Silow-Carroll August 28, 2024 10:30 am

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Last 3 defendants in Lev Tahor cult abduction case sentenced to more than 10 years in prison

Brothers Yoil Weingarten, Yakov Weingarten and Shmiel Weingarten imprisoned for their role in the 2018 kidnapping of two siblings from the Catskills.

July 10, 2024 3:40 pm

NY Rep. Jamaal Bowman withdraws support for Abraham Accords

The bill has overwhelming bipartisan support and Bowman’s change of mind won’t stop it from passing.

February 16, 2022 5:54 pm

The Schlep Sisters on stage at the Menorah Horah

Hanukkah 2021: 8 Festival of Lights events that celebrate NYC’s return

By Julia Gergely November 22, 2021 12:37 pm

Padma Lakshmi lighting a Menorah

Padma Lakshmi heads to the Lower East Side for a Hanukkah edition of Hulu’s ‘Taste the Nation’

By Julia Gergely November 5, 2021 5:01 pm

Runners in tallit and tefilin pray before their race.

The man who helps Jewish New York City marathoners run through their morning prayers

By Julia Gergely November 4, 2021 3:15 pm

Eric Adams mayor elect winner

Eric Adams will be New York City’s next mayor, without Hasidic Borough Park’s support, and other election results

By Julia Gergely November 3, 2021 9:09 am

Lockdown inspires an artist’s loving tribute to an older, grittier New York

By Julia Gergely October 18, 2021 3:27 pm

New York State Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul

What Jewish New Yorkers need to know about Kathy Hochul, who will replace Cuomo as governor

By Stewart Ain August 10, 2021 12:16 pm

Film version of "In the Heights"

Lin-Manuel Miranda and my German-Jewish grandma both made ‘the Heights’ what it is

By Steve North June 7, 2021 3:35 pm

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