New York – The Jewish Federation Community News (formerly Jewish Sound)

January 6, 20150

Streit’s closing Lower East Side matzah factory after 90 years

NEW YORK (JTA) -- Streit’s said it will close the company's 90-year-old matzah factory on New York's Lower East Side. Aron Streit, Inc., a family-o

December 10, 20140

By Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) — The stabbing of a rabbinical student at Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters in New York undersc

December 9, 20140

(JTA) — An Israeli man studying for the rabbinate in New York was stabbed while praying at Chabad-Lubavitch world headquarters in Brooklyn. Levi Ro

May 6, 20140

By Talia Bloch, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) -- The group of young Jewish professionals had gathered to participate in the revival of a Seph