Edge of the City

Jay Parker, the longtime owner of Ben’s Best Delicatessen at 96-40 Queens Blvd, Rego Park, which has been serving generations since 194...

Prof. Jeremy Dauber has written a cultural history of Jewish humor, tracing the origins back to the Bible and Talmudic rabbi jokes. Come o...

Professor Dov Waxman  The 20th Author’s Cafe of the Central Queens Y in Forest Hills will feature a panel discussion on one of the mos...

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Matzoh courtesy of La Boulangerie

Rosh Hashanah begins tonight and continues through sundown Friday. Shanah Tovah!

In the wake of September 11 , two of the most prominent Muslim and Jewish leaders in NYC forged an unlikely friendship. As the city reele...

An estimated eighty percent of American Jews are of Polish descent.  Poland was once  home to the largest Jewish population in Europe.  Yet...

YIVO, the premiere cultural organization of Yiddish culture in New York, continues its yearlong series of programs in Forest Hills, with a...

This spring and summer,  Israel has seen dramatic confrontations among Jews, between the ultra-Orthodox haredi population and others, ove...

Wishing everyone a very happy and sweet New Year

I just would like to wish a Happy Passover to all of my Jewish readers (and other fans of Moses and matzoh). Enjoy your seders tonight! ...

Congregation Ahavath Shalom Synagogue in Forest Hills loses relics in burglary Such a dreadful act, to steal objects of such spiritual si...