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News Jewish seniors nonprofit Dorot rocked by budget cuts
The organization has increased expenses in recent years even as revenue has been uneven
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Opinion A subway mask ban won’t fight antisemitism, but it will punish immunocompromised Jews like me
New York governor Kathy Hochul has raised the possibility of reinstating a mask ban in the subway after masked pro-Palestinian demonstrators threatened Jews
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News Should masks at demonstrations be banned? The issue is bigger than you think
It’s not just about pro-Palestinian protests. Mask bans raise issues related to public health, religion, privacy, free speech and more
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Theater A hauntingly bizarre musical upends Stephen Sondheim’s signature maxim — here, everyone is alone
In Dave Malloy's COVID-era 'Three Houses,' a brilliant structure saves three little pigs but leaves audience out in the woods
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News ‘No divestment, no commencement’: Students fear protests will upend their college graduations
'I’m sad for her that this is how her college career is ending,' one mother said of her graduating senior
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Culture How Barbra Streisand’s interior design manifesto inspired an unlikely hit play
Over a decade before publishing her first memoir, the movie star made her authorial debut with a coffee table tome detailing her sometimes questionable, always ostentatious taste in home decor
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Fast Forward Former Cuomo aide alleges that Kushner was behind Boro Park protests during COVID-19 outbreak
Melissa DeRosa, fomer Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s right hand, recounts the Orthodox protests against the governor following the blowup of a ‘nonaggression pact’ with Trump
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Fast Forward Drew Weissman, Jewish immunologist, wins Nobel Prize for his work on Covid vaccines
Weissman shared the prize with Katalin Kariko, his Hungarian-born research partner at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Fast Forward What the LA synagogue pro-Palestinian protest was really about
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Fast Forward Some imagine a ‘President Josh Shapiro.’ Here’s what he said about Biden after the debate.
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Looking Forward Biden’s rabbi and I debate whether it’s time for the president to step aside
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News Rabbi Burt Jacobson, social activist and founder of Bay Area Renewal synagogue, dies at 87
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Fast Forward Following internal drama over Israel, Reconstructionist Judaism affirms support for progressive Zionism and 2-state solution