By Bill Simons
Traditional Orthodox Judaism is patriarchal, evidenced by restricting the rabbinate, minyan and Torah study to men as well as gender separation in the synagogue. The 1983 Barbra Streisand movie “Yentl” dramatized these barriers. In America, Jews encountered a more open so…
By Bill Simons
The 35 years from the end of World War I to the end of the Korean War marked the heyday of the Jewish deli. New York City, then home to more than half of American’s Jews, was the deli capital, although areas of Jewish settlement across the U.S. had their own establishments.…
The soccer exhibition mentioned in “Soccer memories of Zurich” by Arieh Ullmann, which appeared on page 1 in the June 2 issue of The Reporter, was housed in the museum of FC Zurich, a professional soccer club. FC Zurich and FC Hakoah have maintained a friendship that is decades-old, whi…
By Reporter staff
A variety of Jewish groups are offering educational and recreational online resources. Below is a sampling of those. The Reporter will publish additional listings as they become available.
Uri L’Tzedek, Orthodox Social Justice, will hold “Walking towards a more tole…
By Arieh Ullmann
On our recent visit to Zurich for a family celebration, I took advantage of the stay in my hometown to visit an exhibition celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Hakoah soccer club Zurich (FC Hakoah) where I had played in the 1950s and 1960s, first as a ju…
