Lisa Keys
Sen. Chuck Schumer spoke about the incidents on the Senate floor on June 12, 2024. (Screenshot from YouTube)
June 14, 2024, 11:08 am
‘Unacceptable antisemitism’: Leaders decry vandalism of Brooklyn Museum director’s home
Sen. Chuck Schumer: "This is not even close to free speech."
By Lisa Keys
The Benhamou family of Paris conducts a Passover seder in a scene from Broadway's "Prayer for the French Republic," which was nominated for three 2024 Tony Awards. (Photo by Jeremy Daniel, via JTA)
May 2, 2024, 2:07 pm
‘Cabaret’ and ‘Prayer for the French Republic’ among Tony Award nominees this year
Two shows about Jews caught up in a dangerous climate of hate
By Lisa Keys
Singer and actor Harry Belafonte in a recording studio, circa 1957. (Archive Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
April 27, 2023, 5:56 pm
Harry Belafonte, who popularized ‘Hava Nagila’ in the US, dies at 96
While he was raised Catholic, his life frequently dovetailed with Jewish causes, values and people.
By Lisa Keys
Penn Station (Photo by Jim Henderson, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons)
November 20, 2022, 10:15 am
2 arrested at Penn Station after NYPD and FBI investigate threat to NYC synagogues
One of the men had traveled to New York City after posting on social media that he might “shoot up a synagogue and die."
By Jacob Henry and Lisa Keys
Miriam, a new Israeli restaurant on the Upper West Side, seen here in a photograph shared by Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, was vandalized with antisemitic graffiti, Feb. 17, 2022. (Twitter)
February 17, 2022, 8:54 pm
‘F— Jews’ sprayed outside Israeli restaurant on Upper West Side
22 hate crimes against Jews reported in NYC so far in 2022
By Lisa Keys
A screenshot from Jewish a capella group Six13's new video "West Side Chanukah Story." (Screenshot)
November 26, 2021, 10:57 am
This catchy ‘West Side Story’ Hanukkah parody was filmed on location in New York
The video is a voices-only compilation of and riff off some of the greatest hits from Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim.
By Lisa Keys
Myriam Schottenstein, founder of the sheitel review website ShayTell, and her baby Photo courtesy of Schottenstein
June 23, 2016, 6:21 pm
It’s Yelp for sheitels — the first-ever wig review site
By Lisa Keys
November 19, 2008, 5:25 pm
What’s in a name?
By Lisa Keys
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