Steve Lipman | Nov 3, 2009
Jennifer Gersch, a volunteer for a few years at the starting line of the New York City Marathon in Staten Island, decided last year that she would compete this year. “I felt I had missed out on something” by just watching the event, she says. - Read More -
Julie Wiener | Nov 3, 2009
Although best-selling novelist Jonathan Safran Foer’s just-released book, “Eating Animals,” makes a strong argument for vegetarianism, his work-in-progress, a new Haggadah, will not have a vegetarian — or indeed, any — theme other than the pursuit of literary excellence. - Read More -
Adam DickterAssistant Managing Editor | Oct 27, 2009
A City Council campaign in one of the city’s fastest-growing Jewish neighborhoods has led to charges of anti-Semitism as long-shot Republican Gene Berardelli has attacked incumbent Brooklyn Democrat Lewis Fidler for “advocating one group over another.”... - Read More -