@andrewsilverstein.bsky.social
In all the debate about the correct bagel order, it’s left out that bagels should, whenever possible, be eaten open-faced.
July 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
In all the debate about the correct bagel order, it’s left out that bagels should, whenever possible, be eaten open-faced.
While national politicians debate Zohran Mamdani’s candidacy, for @forward.com, I spoke to the Jewish voters in Astoria who actually know him. The conversations reveal a more nuanced picture than you’d expect.
forward.com/news/733324/...
forward.com/news/733324/...
Zohran Mamdani has represented Astoria's Jews for 4 years. What do they think of him?
Before becoming the NYC mayor Democratic nominee, Zohran Mamdani represented Astoria in the New York State assembly, what do Jews there think?
forward.com
July 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
While national politicians debate Zohran Mamdani’s candidacy, for @forward.com, I spoke to the Jewish voters in Astoria who actually know him. The conversations reveal a more nuanced picture than you’d expect.
forward.com/news/733324/...
forward.com/news/733324/...
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My newest for @forward.com: On its busy calendar of speed dating events, belly dancing performances and fundraisers for Palestinians, Brooklyn’s Barzakh Café has also hosted Jewish events, including interfaith Shabbat dinners and Mimouna celebrations
forward.com/culture/7207...
forward.com/culture/7207...
At this pro-Palestinian cafe, you can practice your Hebrew and imagine you're in Mauritania
El Atigh Abba's Brooklyn cafe is an in-between place influenced by its owner's favorite cafe in his native Mauritania.
forward.com
May 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
My newest for @forward.com: On its busy calendar of speed dating events, belly dancing performances and fundraisers for Palestinians, Brooklyn’s Barzakh Café has also hosted Jewish events, including interfaith Shabbat dinners and Mimouna celebrations
forward.com/culture/7207...
forward.com/culture/7207...
Immigrants in Queens are redefining what it means to be American.
The proof is San Wei, a Chinese hand-pulled noodle stall claiming to make NY’s best pastrami sandwich.
And they’re looking to open dozens of locations. For @forward.com
forward.com/culture/7108...
The proof is San Wei, a Chinese hand-pulled noodle stall claiming to make NY’s best pastrami sandwich.
And they’re looking to open dozens of locations. For @forward.com
forward.com/culture/7108...
I have seen the future of America — in a pastrami sandwich in Queens
San Wei, which serves pastrami sandwiches along with churros and biang biang noodles, tells a uniquely American story.
forward.com
April 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Immigrants in Queens are redefining what it means to be American.
The proof is San Wei, a Chinese hand-pulled noodle stall claiming to make NY’s best pastrami sandwich.
And they’re looking to open dozens of locations. For @forward.com
forward.com/culture/7108...
The proof is San Wei, a Chinese hand-pulled noodle stall claiming to make NY’s best pastrami sandwich.
And they’re looking to open dozens of locations. For @forward.com
forward.com/culture/7108...
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Gabrielle (aka my mom, not yet on Bluesky) and I co-wrote an article about our recent trip to Munich which hinged on my great-grandfather’s silver cup - confiscated in 1930s Germany - being returned to our family after 80+ yrs in a Munich museum. #silverlevy #GermanJewish #TheForward
In Germany, a Jewish family is reunited with a treasured family object — but also a sense of exile
For Gaby and Sonya Gropman, a trip to Munich to retrieve a kiddush cup represented a homecoming to a land where there is no longer a home
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April 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Gabrielle (aka my mom, not yet on Bluesky) and I co-wrote an article about our recent trip to Munich which hinged on my great-grandfather’s silver cup - confiscated in 1930s Germany - being returned to our family after 80+ yrs in a Munich museum. #silverlevy #GermanJewish #TheForward
Yesterday, I had the honor to share the stage (bimah) with these concentration camp liberators at the Baltimore Jewish Council Yom HaShoah event. I presented about the @forward.com’s “Seeking Relatives” column.
April 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Yesterday, I had the honor to share the stage (bimah) with these concentration camp liberators at the Baltimore Jewish Council Yom HaShoah event. I presented about the @forward.com’s “Seeking Relatives” column.
ADL chief Jonathan Greenblatt was once a Tufts student newspaper Opinion editor and free speech warrior.
I wrote about it last year for @forward.bsky.social forward.com/news/607054/...
I wrote about it last year for @forward.bsky.social forward.com/news/607054/...
March 27, 2025 at 3:57 AM
ADL chief Jonathan Greenblatt was once a Tufts student newspaper Opinion editor and free speech warrior.
I wrote about it last year for @forward.bsky.social forward.com/news/607054/...
I wrote about it last year for @forward.bsky.social forward.com/news/607054/...
I wrote about how Trump is using a 1950s antisemitic law to target pro-Palestine student activists. For @forward.bsky.social
forward.com/news/702427/...
forward.com/news/702427/...
State Department plan to deport ‘pro-Hamas’ students relies on a 1952 law that targeted Jews
Jewish Holocaust survivors suspected of being Soviet sympathizers were subject to the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act.
forward.com
March 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I wrote about how Trump is using a 1950s antisemitic law to target pro-Palestine student activists. For @forward.bsky.social
forward.com/news/702427/...
forward.com/news/702427/...
My piece in @thecity.bsky.social about migrant lunch vendors.
fantastic story about the business of newly arrived immigrants who feed lunch to countless construction workers across New York
Bite by Bite, Migrant Women Help Fuel a Burgeoning Lunch Business at Manhattan Construction Sites
Often living in shelters, they serve as an unregulated sales force for Latin American meals cooked after hours at restaurants, pizzerias and backyard kitchens across the city.
www.thecity.nyc
January 29, 2025 at 2:13 AM
My piece in @thecity.bsky.social about migrant lunch vendors.