Jackie Hajdenberg
The Statue of Liberty Hanukkah Lamp by Manfred Anson was on display at the Statue of Liberty Museum in 2019. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP)
July 2, 2026, 9:59 am
Here’s how two American Jewish groups are marking 250 years of independence
By Jackie Hajdenberg
March 12, 2026, 9:59 am
Mazal Tofu to you too!
By Jackie Hajdenberg
A Ukrainian church in Connecticut advertised its 2026 Christmas vertep using a poster featuring a Jewish caricature that has drawn criticism as antisemitic. (Screenshot via Facebook)
January 29, 2026, 9:54 am
Clifton church deletes video of pageant featuring antisemitic character
Still, it says critics took it ‘out of context’
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Sotheby’s is offering the Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah, circa 1300, from Toledo, Spain. (Courtesy Sotheby’s)
December 4, 2025, 9:59 am
Sotheby’s New York’s Judaica sale is on.
By Jackie Hajdenberg
A watch fob engraved with Isidor Straus’s initials; a portrait of Gilded Age philanthropist Frieda Schiff Warburg, on loan from the Met; and an antisemitic political cartoon are among the objects on display at a new exhibit celebrating 180 years of Temple Emanu-El. (Courtesy Herbert and Eileen Bernard Museum of Judaica)
September 18, 2025, 10:00 am
Happy birthday, Temple Emanu-El!
By Jackie Hajdenberg
August 28, 2025, 9:59 am
It’s an orange? It’s a cactus? No, it’s cheesecake!
By Jackie Hajdenberg
A box of Grossinger’s rye cracker boards, produced by Streit’s Matzos. (Courtesy Harris Salomon)
July 31, 2025, 9:59 am
Grossinger’s iconic rye bread rises again
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Rabbi Eliyahu Fink, who died in a car accident on March 21, appeared in a 2013 episode of National Geographic’s “Church Rescue.” (Screenshot from YouTube)
March 27, 2025, 9:58 am
Rabbi Eliyahu Fink dies in road accident on the Garden State Parkway
A longtime compassionate voice in the Orthodox world, the father of three was 43
By Jackie Hajdenberg
A sample of the works from Salvador Dali’s “Aliyah, the Rebirth of Israel” series, currently on view at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County. From left, “Orah, Horah,” “On the Shores of Freedom,” which depicts the Eliyahu Golomb refugee ship, and “A Moment in History” which shows David Ben Gurion reading Israel’s Declaration of Independence. (Courtesy the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center)
December 31, 2024, 9:59 am
Shalom, Dali!
By Jackie Hajdenberg
December 12, 2024, 9:58 am
The warm backstory of this year’s Chanukah stamp 
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Rep. Josh Gottheimer, left, and Mayor Steve Fulop
November 21, 2024, 9:51 am
Rep. Josh Gottheimer, a Jewish Democrat, launches bid for New Jersey governor
He joins another Jewish Dem, Jersey City’s Mayor Steve Fulop, in the race
By Jackie Hajdenberg
August 22, 2024, 9:59 am
‘Bachelorette’ contestant is great-great-grandson of Kovno’s last chief rabbi
By Jackie Hajdenberg
April 18, 2024, 10:00 am
Taylor Swift’s (unofficial) Exodus era
By Jackie Hajdenberg
March 14, 2024, 9:59 am
Will Eurovision like Israel’s “Hurricane”?
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Matisyahu performs in concert during the “Hold the Fire Tour” at Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater in Austin, Texas, Feb. 10, 2024. (Rick Kern/Getty Images)
March 7, 2024, 9:59 am
Heavy metal musical macher raises funds for Matisyahu’s security
By Jackie Hajdenberg
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