New York News

Candid Memoirs Of Lives Lost And Found

04/04/2013 | Gary Rosenblatt | Editor and Publisher

Harriet Rossetto’s new book, “Sacred Housekeeping: A Spiritual Memoir” (Author House), is a fitting companion to her husband’s 2004 best-seller, “The Holy Thief: A Con Man’s Journey From Darkness To Light” (HarperCollins).

Next Year In Brooklyn

04/04/2013 | Orli Santo | Special To The Jewish Week

Brooklyn, 2009: I was sitting on the windowsill, watching the evening crowds fill the synagogue across the street. From the apartment below, snatches of songs and the faint clinking of glasses were already rising.

Orthodox-focused Holocaust Museum To Open In Borough Park

04/04/2013 | Steve Lipman | Staff Writer

Although his father was a Holocaust survivor, and he lived near many other survivors, Rabbi Sholom Friedmann grew up learning only the broad strokes of the Shoah.

Will Yad Vashem Honor A Goering?

04/04/2013 | Jonathan Mark | Associate Editor

In the Third Reich, other than Hitler himself, was there a more infamous name than Goering — Germany’s second in command, the bombastic Reichsmarshall, commander of the Luftwaffe, and arch anti-Semite?

A Bridge Between Schools,Cultures

04/03/2013 | Doug Chandler | Jewish Week Correspondent

The students at Cathedral High School and those at the Magen David Yeshivah couldn’t be more different in terms of faith and ethnic background.

On Golan, Warily Watching The Civil War Below

04/03/2013 | Joshua Mitnick | Israel Correspondent

Tel Aviv — As is customary on Passover in Israel, vacationers streamed northward to the Golan Heights, renting bed-and-breakfast cabins and taking in the strategic plateau’s rugged wide-open beauty.