By GABE FRIEDMAN NEW YORK CITY(JTA) — As always, the Golden Globes was a coming together of some of Hollywood’s biggest Jewish talents. There weren’t many Jewish award winners at the glitzy ceremony on Sunday night, Jan. 5, but here are our favorite Jewish moments from one of the industry’s biggest nights of the year. Quentin Tarantino spoke Hebrew to […]

SCHENECTADY–Each January Congregation Gates of Heaven commemorates the life and work of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with an annual community Shabbat event, which will be held this year on Friday, Jan. 24, at the temple, 852 Ashmore Ave., Schenectady. Prof. Sarah Rogerson, director of the Immigration Law Clinic at Albany Law School will be the guest speaker. The […]

The Chatham Area Interfaith Council (CAIC), which represents the many faith traditions within the local community, is celebrating the life of the late Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr. on Sunday, Jan. 19, 2 p.m. at St. James Church, Chatham.  The program features gospel music from the combined church choirs of St. James and the Chatham Payne AME, readings from Dr. King’s […]

(JNS) – Jewish director Sam Mendes won big at the 77th annual Golden Globes on Sunday night in Los Angeles, taking home two honors for his World War I epic “1917.” After Mendes won the award for Best Director—beating out Bong Joon-ho, Todd Phillips, Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino—his film went on to beat “Joker,” “Marriage Story,” “The Two Popes” […]

(JNS) – As hundreds of thousands of Jews worldwide celebrate the completion of the seven-and-a-half-year-long cycle of daily Talmud study—and as women for the first time in history held their own celebration in Jerusalem—one 17-year-old is believed to be the youngest woman to ever mark this achievement. Hila Schlakman of Efrat, a senior at Ohr Torah Stone’s Neveh Channah High […]

SCHENECTADY–The Congregation Gates of Heaven (CGOH) Brotherhood will have its next monthly breakfast and speaker program on Sunday, Jan. 12. Rob Kovach will make a presentation on “Jewish Influence on the Comic Book Industry.” Kovach will discuss the early years of the comic book industry—an industry started by Jews— and share details about Jewish writers and artists who created the […]

ALBANY– “Jews in America Through Stories And Film” will be the theme for a six-part Lunch and Learn series at Beth Emeth, 100Academy Rd., Albany. Cantor Jodi Schechtman will lead the series, beginning on Wednesday, Jan. 8, with subsequent sessions on Jan. 15, 22 and 29, Feb. 5 and 12. Each Lunch and Learn will be held from 12-1:30 p.m. […]

SCHENECTADY–Congregation Agudat Achim has hired a new executive director, to replace Barbara Miller who has retired. Josh Cooper-Ginsburg joined Congregation Agudat Achim’s administrative staff on Dec. 2. Cooper-Ginsburg is responsible for the overall management of the congregation and implementation of its policies. He earned a master’s degree in psychology from the University of Phoenix and a bachelor’s degree in psychology […]

ALBANY– Ed Rosen of Albany will discuss the topography, demography and strategic importance of the Golan Heights during the B’nai Sholom Reform Congregation “Synagogue Scholars” series following the congregation’s Friday, Jan. 10, Shabbat service that begins at 8 p.m. Rosen will present “Riding Through the History of the Golan” at the synagogue, 420 Whitehall Rd., Albany. The service and program […]

CLIFTON PARK–Rabbi Dr. Chanan Markowitz will present two lectures entitled “Can Science And Religion Unite Making This A Better World?” The lectures will be held at 10 a.m. on Sundays, Jan. 12, and Jan. 26, at Beth Shalom Synagogue, 688 Clifton Park Center Rd., Clifton Park. According to the rabbi, these lectures will explore the often flawed interdependence of science […]