A satirical column mocks Sen. Chris Van Hollen and progressive Democrats with an absurd list of demands to pressure Israel.

Federation and JFS partner for a June 4 kosher luncheon honoring local Holocaust survivors and the emergency fund that keeps them at home.

Colonie Chabad’s TED-style night returns June 8 with four local voices, from a Technion-bound graduate to a Union College rabbi.

All-women klezmer band Isle of Klezbos marks Pride Month with a June 14 set in Saratoga blending Eastern European tradition, jazz, and swing.

Hundreds gather near Gracie Mansion as a Jewish-led coalition presses Gov. Hochul to use a rarely invoked power against Mayor Mamdani.

A Likud campaign clip stages a son’s ‘coming out’ as a Bibi supporter, sparking the very indignation it cheerfully predicted.

A Yiddish-music trio that formed at a Lower East Side deli headlines Beth Emeth Sisterhood’s June 14 Susan B. Shpeen Memorial Donor Dinner.

True stories of American Jewish life anchor The Braid’s June 4 and 7 Zoom premieres of “L’Chaim America!” for the nation’s 250th, hosted by SJCA.

Three generations of the Laber family are honored alongside the Zlatopolskys at the school’s May 28 “To Be Continued!” annual dinner.

Yael Eckstein on the Book of Ruth, the choice to receive Torah anew, and the Sinai values that bind Israel and a soon-250-year-old America.