New York based writer. Bylines: in @nytimes @Jdforward @washingtonpost and elsewhere
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During and after the Holocaust, @jdforward helped European Jews find relatives by running ads on their behalf.
I found 1000s of letters from ghetto residents, prisoners, war refugees, liberating soldiers, and survivors.
I set out to tell their stories.
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“The US was the goldene medine […] but it was closed,” 86-year-old writer Alicia Freilich told me. “Venezuela became our goldene medine.”
From exile, Alicia writes about Venezuela and reflects on her family’s incredible and tragic story. For @jdforward tinyurl.com/2a2cme68
“It started out about wages and conditions, but it’s turned into Israel/Palestine.”
I talked to Breads Bakery workers about their union drive, and discovered a Columbia protest conection. (For @jdforward)
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Andrew Silverstein retweeted
My colleague @ASilversteinNY spoke to Zohran’s Mamdani’s Jewish constituents in Astoria.
Here is what they say about him becoming mayor and his positions on Israel.
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Yesterday, I had the honor to share the stage (bimah) with concentration camp liberators at the @baltjc Yom HaShoah event. I presented about the @jdforward “Seeking Relatives” column.
You can read about how the Forward helped reunite families during and after the Holocaust here forward.com/culture/555245/s…
For the @JDForward, I wrote about how Trump is using a McCarthy-era antisemitic law to deport pro-Palestine students.
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Essential reading about what’s become a part of city life.
Behind New York City's e-bike and moped boom is a little-known ex-delivery worker who has quietly built a micromobility empire. I spent a year looking into him and the freewheeling industry through which he rose. My last story for @StreetsblogNYC streetsblogprojects.org/fly-…
I decided I’m going to passively scroll, and rarely post elsewhere: bsky.app/profile/andrewsilve…
Trader Joe’s says its babkas come from a small kosher bakery in Brooklyn that grew out of a grandmother’s kitchen.
So I wondered: which bakery? The answer is surprising. I did a deep dive for @jdforward 🧵1/5
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Renee’s son Allen is 90 and buys TJ babka. He hadn’t realized it claimed to be his mother’s.
Schick’s bakery was once a center of her community. Renee sold it in 1960 to another Orthodox family who operated it until 2011. After it closed, the brand changed hands four times. 4/5
How Schick’s became an asset of a Japanese multinational is a story of the commodification of ethnic identity.
And about the boom of New York Jewish desserts at a time when Jewish New York bakeries are rapidly disappearing. 5/5
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The shuttering of Absolute Bagels on NYC’s Upper West Side is driving some to anguish — others to poetry
Great read by @Adam_Langer
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Andrew Silverstein retweeted
When you rip off another outlet’s work AND make it a lot more racist. Read the original from @THECITYNY: thecity.nyc/2024/09/19/migra…
ARROZ CON RACKET: Brooklyn restaurant at center of illegal migrant-driven food-vending scheme trib.al/DxsfUvn
Reposting my @THECITYNY article about migrant lunch ladies after the New York Post did their own bad and sensationalist version of it.
Read the original if you want an in-depth and nuanced look into a complex issue: thecity.nyc/2024/09/19/migra…
Within hours of finish someone put their 2024 NYC marathon medal up for sale on FB marketplace.
And when I say someone, I know exactly who, because you can look up bib numbers.
Come to @KGBBarRedRm on Tuesday at 7pm for their legendary journalist reads series!
I was invited to present my @THECITYNY article about migrant lunch vendors.
Have a listen or just have a drink!
Today @BrianLehrer wondered about his grandparents listening to the Yiddish radio station WEVD named after the socialist Eugene V. Debs.
Brian, it was the very popular radio station of the Jewish Daily Forward. ( @jdforward ).