Tag Archives: New York

New York City & New York Jews (Mamdani)

Posted on July 3, 2025 by zjb

Zohran Mamdani and New York Jews are in a bind with each other. This is the core of the knot: [1] NYC is home to a major, even singular Jewish community, and Israel is a fulcrum of Jewish identity. There … Continue reading →

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(Defaced) Kidnapped (Flyers)

Posted on July 5, 2024 by zjb

Now iconic images of hostages from the south of Israel taken by Hamas on October 7 appeared everywhere in the thousands. First in NYC, they are impossible not to see. The original paper flyers sported a red banner at the … Continue reading →

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(Air) Smoke (New York City)

Posted on June 7, 2023 by zjb
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Red Tail Hawk Eats Squirrel in Central Park

Posted on March 12, 2023 by zjb

Not for the squeamish, these are closeup photos of a red tail eating a squirrel that M. and M. and I came across on a walk behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art. We stuck around for almost an hour. The … Continue reading →

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(Essence of Judaism) Sherry Herring (NYC)

Posted on November 15, 2022 by zjb

(W. 72nd Street between Broadway and West End Avenue) (Kaplan was right) “With this approach, the question of “why be a Jew?” loses its relevance. If Jewish life is a unique way of experience, it needs no further justification. We … Continue reading →

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(Pile) Autumn (Bridge)

Posted on October 31, 2022 by zjb

This bridge pile supports a part of the overpass of the West Side Highway. It pile blocks, and frames the tree in the park (Riverside Park South) that now surrounds it.

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(Simulacrum) Autumn (New York City)

Posted on October 30, 2022 by zjb

(Waterline Square Park)

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Lower East Side Bright Light

Posted on August 28, 2022 by zjb

This post elicted a couple of interesting comments at FB. Two were about the slowed down pace of gentrification in the wake of Covid, another one about an anti-Semitic incident in the neighborhood. They were all very much in the … Continue reading →

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(Chabad Redesign) 770

Posted on December 4, 2020 by zjb

  “New preliminary design renderings from S. Wieder Architect reveal an expansion of the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Located at 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, the religious complex spans almost one acre and will include a synagogue, … Continue reading →

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(Coronavirus) Shofarot on Broadway (Sunday at 4:00)

Posted on September 14, 2020 by zjb

from Sarah Kayla Jacobs here. אֲשֶׁר קִדְּשָֽׁנוּ בְּמִצְוֹתָיו וְצִוָּֽנוּ לִשְׁמֹֽעַ קוֹל שׁוֹפָר on September 14, 2020 Covid-19 has upended the world. Most things that until March we took for granted are worse. I don’t have to go into a litany of … Continue reading →

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