Julia Gergely
Howard Teich speaks at a monument in The Battery that marks the Jewish arrival in New York in September 1654. New York, NY, Sept. 13, 2023. (Julia Gergely)
September 12, 2024, 9:13 am
NYC poised to officially recognize Landing Day, when the first Jewish community arrived in 1654
While the exact day the Jews landed in New York is not known, records indicate it occurred during the week before Rosh Hashanah, which that year was on Sept. 12, 1654.
By Julia Gergely
Jeff Wilbusch as Jewish NYPD Detective Avraham Avraham in "The Calling" which begins streaming on Peacock on Nov. 10. (Heidi Gutman/Peacock)
November 11, 2022, 10:36 am
In new miniseries ‘The Calling,’ an NYPD detective’s Judaism helps him solve crimes
“He is such a deep and complex and interesting character with such a strong message of humanity. ” 
By Julia Gergely
Rabbi Becky Eisenstadt started b'nai mitzvah tutoring in her hometown in Bethesda, Maryland. Twenty years later, she's made it into a mini-empire. (Image by Alex Korolkovas. Multimedia design by Mollie Suss)
May 26, 2022, 12:10 pm
This private, on-demand ‘hot rabbi’ may soon be the star of her own reality TV show
Soon, the rabbi hopes, you’ll find her on TV, thanks to Reese Witherspoon’s media company, which is making a documentary series about her life as a single rabbi looking for love.
By Julia Gergely
A protester holds up a sign reading "Abortion Access is a Jewish Value" at a rally in front of the US Capitol Building organized by the National Council of Jewish Women, May 17, 2022. (Julia Gergely)
May 18, 2022, 8:27 am
More than 1,000 Jews rally outside the US Capitol in support of abortion rights
Lots of women expressed shock and anger that they were continuing to rally for a woman's right to an abortion — some for the second, third, or umpteenth time in their lives.
By Julia Gergely
Airplane interior (Image by Sourav Mishra via Pexels)
March 31, 2022, 11:14 am
Orthodox women sue airlines after being grounded on flight home to New York
The group of young women and their chaperones were prevented from boarding a flight traveling from Amsterdam to New York allegedly for eating outside of designated mealtimes.
By Julia Gergely
Yeshiva University's Stern College for Women, on 34th and Lexington. The all-male campus counterpart is in Morningside Heights. (Julia Gergely)
March 29, 2022, 3:32 pm
Rape allegation at Yeshiva University stirs reforms — and skepticism
A student claimed she was raped by one of YU's basketball players, whom she didn’t name — and that she and her alleged rapist were asked by the school to sign nondisclosure agreements.
By Julia Gergely
NYC Councilmembers Lincoln Restler and Chi Ossé speak to members of Jews for Racial & Economic Justice, who were in Williamsburg, Brooklyn to canvas passersby and offer tips on how to defuse antisemitic and other bigoted incidents, Jan. 4, 2022. (Julia Gergely)
January 8, 2022, 7:14 pm
In Brooklyn, a Jewish group tries a face-to-face approach to fighting antisemitism
“This type of response — where we come together, where we educate our neighbors so we all are looking out for one another and we all stop this violence together — this is how we can transform our community."
By Julia Gergely
The late Renay Mandel Corren holds the hand of her son Andy, whose obituary for his mother went viral Wednesday night. (Photo courtesy of Andy Corren)
December 17, 2021, 2:06 pm
A chat with the son who wrote the viral obituary for his ‘plus-sized Jewish lady redneck’ mother
“A more disrespectful, trash-reading, talking and watching woman in NC, FL or TX was not to be found.”
By Julia Gergely
(Photo by Lucie Liz from Pexels)
December 7, 2021, 1:29 pm
Despite looming cream cheese shortage, NYC’s bagel shops still laying it on thick
This writer floated the idea of using less schmear at all the bagel stores she visited and was met with resounding pushback.
By Julia Gergely
Lubavitch rabbis from around the world visit the grave of Rebbe Menachem Schneerson on Nov. 2, 2018, in Queens, New York. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images via JTA)
October 7, 2021, 9:53 am
For Orthodox Jews and Israelis, WhatsApp outage highlighted vulnerability of community infrastructure
The outage brought into sharp focus the degree to which WhatsApp is baked into the communication infrastructure for most of the world’s Jews.
By Julia Gergely and Shira Hanau
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