By Reporter staff
A variety of Jewish groups are offering educational and recreational online resources. Below is a sampling of those. The Reporter will publish additional listings as they become available.
The Jewish Theological Seminary is holding its Spring 2023 Learning Series: “Th…
By Bill Simons
Time is inexorable, even the human markings of eternity. Izzy Demsky, age 103, died on Shevat 10 (February 5), 2020. The is his third yahrzeit, a time for remembrance of Izzy.
Born into a poor Russian Jewish immigrant family in Amsterdam, NY, Izzy thought of himself as …
There are some novels that are so distinctive that they’re difficult to describe. This was true of two recent books: “Before All the World” by Moriel Rothman-Zecher (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and “When the Angels Left the Old Country” by Sacha Lamb (Levine Querido). The former pac…
By Reporter staff
A variety of Jewish groups are offering educational and recreational online resources. Below is a sampling of those. The Reporter will publish additional listings as they become available.
Maven will hold several virtual programs in March: “Jews of Iran: A Photographi…
By Rabbi Lance J. Sussman, Ph.D.
I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Binghamton’s daily newspaper, the Press & Sun-Bulletin, ran two articles at the end of 2022 (November 21 and December 12) by local historian Gerald Smith based on my 1989 history of the Jewish community of the Tripl…
