New York News

Nationwide Effort To Aid Sandy-Hit Congregations

02/06/2013 | Stewart Ain | Staff Writer

Hundreds of Jewish holy books from a closing Flushing synagogue are looking for a new home.

In Post-City Hall Life, Koch ‘Redefined’ Jewish Leadership

02/06/2013 | Steve Lipman | Staff Writer

In the mid-1970s, William Rapfogel, who was publishing a small Jewish newspaper on the Lower East Side, arranged a meeting at a café near Grand Central Station with Edward Koch, then an obscure member of Congress, and one of the representative’s aides.

‘As Jewish As You Get’

02/05/2013 | Sandee Brawarsky | Special To The Jewish Week

When I interviewed Ed Koch in 1980, his father had just visited him at Gracie Mansion. When the elder Koch heard his son criticized, he asked, in characteristic family style, “What do you need this for?”

Russian-Jewish Patriarch Here Remembered

02/05/2013 | Walter Ruby | Special To The Jewish Week

Peyrets Goldmacher, widely known as the patriarch of the Russian-American Jewish community, died on Jan. 27 of congrestive heart failure, four days before his 92nd birthday.

A New Definition Of Leadership

02/04/2013 | Steve Lipman | Staff Writer

In the mid-1970s, William Rapfogel, who was publishing a small Jewish newspaper here, arranged a meeting at a café near Grand Central Station with Edward Koch, then an obscure member of Congress, and one of the representative’s aides.

Ed Koch Dies At 88

02/01/2013 | Adam Dickter | Assistant Managing Editor

Edward Irving Koch, a quintessential New York Jew who was a passionate defender of Jewish causes and was the city's most famous political figure for four decades, died early Friday morning at New York-Presbyterian Hospital at Columbia University. He was 88 and had been in and out of hospitals in recent weeks with respiratory and other problems. The cause of death was congestive heart failure.