Gabe Friedman
August 9, 2023, 3:59 pm
Meet rock’s new ‘King of the Jews’
By Gabe Friedman
(Gilbert Carrasquillo/GC Images/Getty Images via JTA)
September 29, 2022, 10:58 am
The Zohan’s never been to Israel?
By Gabe Friedman
May 25, 2022, 5:59 pm
LeBron James attends Jewish NYC wedding — and holds hands with ex-convict rabbi
By Gabe Friedman
August 11, 2021, 5:59 pm
Desus and Mero get bar mitzvahed (sort of) in their Showtime series
By Gabe Friedman
Jacob Steinmetz, left, and Elie Kligman
July 14, 2021, 5:59 pm
Orthodox ball players make history
By Rob Charry and Gabe Friedman
Shayna, a 12-foot albino Burmese python, with her recent batch of 38 eggs.
July 14, 2021, 5:58 pm
Snakes at a kiddush
By Gabe Friedman
Paul Pierce (Johnny Nunez/Getty Images for Stance)
April 7, 2021, 5:59 pm
Celtic star confesses to Shabbat envy
By Gabe Friedman
On the day the course launched, Duolingo gave students a free bagel — if they ordered it in Yiddish. (Duolingo)
April 7, 2021, 5:53 pm
How Duolingo created a Yiddish course
with a secular scholar and chasidic Jews from Brooklyn
By Gabe Friedman
Makua Rothman surfs in Hawaii on January 14, 2018. Brian Bielmann/AFP via Getty Images
January 27, 2021, 4:57 pm
Rothman rides record wave
By Gabe Friedman
Participants in a Jewish solidarity march across New York City’s Brooklyn Bridge on January 5, 2020. The march in the city was held in response to a recent rise in anti-Semitic crimes in the New York metropolitan area.
December 29, 2020, 6:00 pm
10 heartwarming Jewish stories from 2020
A year otherwise we’d all like to forget
By Gabe Friedman
Meijer and Tedje van der Sluis during the filming of a 2018 documentary film about their marriage. Tedje died on April 11, 2020, of the coronavirus. (Merlijn Doomernik)
December 29, 2020, 5:59 pm
Those we lost in 2020
Remembering the rabbis, pioneers, innovators, and family members
By Gabe Friedman
December 22, 2020, 5:59 pm
Dr. Fauci weighs in on the latke vs. hamentaschen debate
By Gabe Friedman
December 31, 2019, 3:07 pm
The Jews who defined the 2010s
By Ben Sales, Gabe Friedman, Laura Adkins, Josefin Dolsten, Shannon Sarna, Cnaan Liphshiz, Ron Kampeas and Marc Brodsky
Harold Bloom
October 23, 2019, 9:50 am
All his life, Harold Bloom dreamed in Yiddish
By Gabe Friedman
Shawn Green, playing for the Toronto Blue Jays in 1998, was one of three outfielders named to an all-time Jewish baseball team. (Jonathan Kirn/Allsport/Getty Images)
September 12, 2019, 10:00 am
Is this the all-time Jewish baseball team roster?
By Gabe Friedman
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