New York News

Israel Is Pitch Perfect

06/04/2013 | Steve Lipman | Staff Writer

Sunday was a day of pride in Israel, along Fifth Avenue in the annual Celebrate Israel parade, and in Central Park in a concert that complements the parade each year.

‘We Cannot Investigate Ourselves … And Expect To Resolve Doubts’

06/04/2013 | Stewart Ain | Staff Writer

Pressure mounted Monday on the Claims Conference to launch a new probe into how the organization handled a tip in 2001 about fraud within the organization — eight years before the fraud was discovered at a cost of $57.3 million.

Forum Ponders Israeli Innovation, Isolation

06/04/2013 | Doug Chandler | Jewish Week Correspondent

Still marveling over what he saw and heard, Ido Aharoni, Israel’s consul general in New York, told an audience in Westchester last week about the Israeli theater group he hosted three months ago — a troupe whose entire cast is deaf and blind.

Celebrate Israel Parade Draws 35,000

06/03/2013 | Chavie Lieber | Special To The Jewish Week

A sea of blue and white blurred across Fifth Avenue as more than a million people attended the Celebrate Israel Parade in New York City Sunday, June 2.

Using Tech To Cut The Shlep Factor

05/29/2013 | Julie Wiener | Associate Editor

This is second in a three-part series. Part 1 is "Flex Time for Students, Parents."

Rabbi Melissa Buyer feels strongly that, for a Hebrew school to be effective, kids need to engage with the material more than once a week.

Elderly Survivors Win New Benefits

05/28/2013 | Stewart Ain | Staff Writer

Amid an internal probe into how the Claims Conference reacted to a tip about fraud within its organization, the German government has negotiated a deal with the group to provide $1 billion over four years in home care for 56,000 elderly Holocaust survivors.