Riverdale Fears The Fire Next Time
Jonathan Mark Associate Editor Calm returned to Riverdale two weeks after the FBI arrested four Islamic men for plotting to blow up two neighborhood shuls as part of a larger plot. There was no...
View ArticleFor Jewish Boarding School, It’s Old Wine In New Bottle
Now a decade old, the American Hebrew Academy in Greensboro, despite growing pains, is hitting its stride. Steven Bayme Special To The Jewish Week Tue, 08/17/2010Touring the sites of Riverdale with...
View ArticleImplications Of Riverdale Case Unclear
Stewart Ain Staff Writer As jury deliberates on the ‘Newburgh Four’ experts say that whatever the verdict, the FBI will likely continue employing similar tactics in terror surveillance.In their...
View ArticleOffering Thanks: Reflections On 25 Years Of A Gift Of Life
Rabbi Avi Weiss Special To The Jewish Week It’s 25 years today that I went through quadruple bypass-open heart surgery. It all started three months earlier, in September. The Student Struggle for...
View ArticleThe Legend Of Lydig Avenue
Jonathan Mark Associate Editor The last kosher café in the Bronx (outside of Riverdale, that is) fights to survive. In New York City, is anything more ordinary than a cup of coffee or a bowl of soup?...
View ArticleRiverdale Synagogue Appoints Second Woman As Rabba
Hannah Dreyfus Staff Writer Move at HIR seems to renege on Rabbi Avi Weiss’ promise; drives further wedge between centrist and ‘open’ Orthodoxy. They are the new Rabbanut, so to speak. While Rabba...
View ArticleSwastika Incident Reverberating At Fieldston
Amy Sara Clark Deputy Managing Editor Parents at elite Riverdale school say swastika-as-peace symbol assembly is part of a long pattern of slights against Jews. When the Ethical Culture Fieldston...
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