Michael Levine, founding member of NY’s pioneering LGBTQ synagogue and witness to the Stonewall riots, dies at 81
Congregation Beit Simchat Torah “reminded me of my Jewish childhood in Brooklyn,” said Levine, who also served as its president.
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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.
Brawls break out surrounding pro-Palestinian protest in heavily Jewish neighborhood of Borough Park
NYC politicians decried antisemitism at the scene.
