Menachem Wecker
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Jewish USPS official glad to preside over first-day-of-issue event for ‘beautiful’ Chanukah stamp (opens the original)
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Growing up, Carrie Rieger Brownlie spent most holidays with her maternal grandmother. “Even when she was diminished in old age,” her grandmother “found a way to complain to me about being unsatisfied with stamp art,” the deputy counsel general at the U.S. Postal Service said. “She would say, ‘Why aren’t there any pretty stamps?’” Rieger Brownlie told JNS days before attending the first-day-of-issues ceremony for the new Chanukah stamp on Tuesday at Touro Synagogue, a Reform congregation in New O
Sotheby’s selling one of ‘most significant’ manuscripts by renowned Jewish medieval artist Joel ben Simeon (opens the original)
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The international auction house Sotheby’s said that its December “magnificent Judaica” sale will include what it said is one of the “most significant” works in private hands by renowned medieval Jewish artist and scribe Joel ben Simeon. The mahzor, or Jewish holiday prayer book, dates to about 1475 Italy, and Sotheby’s expects it to fetch between $3 million and $5 million. Its pages are “richly embellished with hundreds of drawings that engage directly with the text of the prayers,” it said. “Th
NYC seeks help finding men suspected of two incidents it's probing as anti-Jewish hate crimes (opens the original)
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The New York City Police Department said on Tuesday night that it is asking the public to help it identify two men, whom it suspects of two incidents that its hate crime task force is investigating as suspected Jew-hatred. A man, who wore a white ball cap, shorts and a black coat, wrote “anti-Jewish remarks” and drew a Nazi swastika at a bus stop at the northeast corner of Lefferts Boulevard and Hillside Avenue, in Queens, on Aug. 27 at around 4:30 a.m., per the department. The site is within se
Job had questions, history gave him ‘patience’ (opens the original)
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If the High Priest in the Temple in Jerusalem was sufficiently learned, then he would study religious texts all night on Yom Kippur, when he was supposed to pull an all-nighter; if he wasn’t, then priests would read to him. The anti-bedtime stories they would read, according to the Mishnah in Yoma 1:6, came from Job, among other texts. The biblical text, which has some of the most difficult Hebrew and Aramaic in scripture, tells of an eponymous God-fearing man, who was the wealthiest in the east
As High Holidays loom, Jewish leaders say 'little comfort' in 'minor fluctuations' in new NYC data on anti-Jewish hate crimes (opens the original)
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In response to new crime data, including about anti-Jewish hate crimes, from last month which the New York City Police Department released on Thursday days ahead of the High Holidays, Jewish leaders told JNS that there is little comfort in some numbers dropping slightly. Jessica Tisch, commissioner of the NYPD, said on Thursday that the city had experienced its safest summer, when it came to murders and to shooting incidents and victims, in recorded history. But Jews, who make up 10% of New York
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