Was the Jewish Bronx the ‘paradise’ that it seemed? | COMMENTARY
The Bronx, like its Jewish community, didn’t disappear, but became something new, first for the worse, then for the better.
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Was the Jewish Bronx the ‘paradise’ that it seemed?
In 1930, the Bronx was 50% Jewish. It’s a statistic that always surprises me, partly because the intense Jewish nostalgia ...
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Unique Yad Vashem exhibit and street naming highlight NYC’s commitment to remember the Holocaust
A unique Holocaust art exhibition opened this week in New York’s City Hall. In “The Wandering Jew,” a 1947 oil-and-canvas painting by Dutch artist Eliazer Neuberger, a barefoot man wearing torn ...
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He Survived the Holocaust and Ran a Popular NYC Disco, Only To be Fatally Bludgeoned At 90
Read about Holocaust survivor Felix Brinkmann, who escaped death in gas chambers, became a popular New York City disco owner and was killed in his apartment.
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The Leaning Tower of New York
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Buffalo’s East Side residents react to denial of proposed emergency homeless shelter
The Buffalo Common Council on Tuesday denied a proposal for a new homeless shelter on East Ferry Street. Many residents are ...
80 years after Auschwitz liberation, a survivor's powerful plea: 'We cannot forget'
Tova Friedman, 86, is one of a dwindling number of survivors sharing their message on Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025.