Big Machers: New York City’s Power Congregations
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Just in time for Yom Kippur:
Neighborhood: Upper East Side.
Membership: Two-Parent Family Rate? They list it as $2,800, which is conspicuously cheap, and likely doesn’t come close to covering the cost of a front-row Yom Kippur seat. That said, they livestream their services. Baller.
Famous Congregants: Michael Bloomberg, Alan “Ace” Greenburg, Eliot Spitzer (seen above with the mayor in December 2006), Joan Rivers, Leon Black, and is famously known as the fictional bar-mitzvah site of Benjamin Jacob Grimm, better known as The Thing.
The Power To The People Congregation will be at Occupy Yom Kippur tonight.
Can’t get enough Jews and women and comics? Even if you like only two of those, you should stop by the new exhibition, “Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women,” assembled by, and featuring, more than the normal share of FOYMs. Looks spectacular and opens Sunday.
JEWS ON VINYL RE-OPENING IN 90 MINUTES
After over 3 weeks being closed because of hurricane damage, Jews on Vinyl, the fantastic dance through three decades of American music is back on again. Do the twist to Hava Nagilah, hear the Hebrew Simon and Garfunkel, and find out about the Yiddishe Mambo!
The show reopens in 90 minutes! But mind the cracked skylight!
* Image Marty Allen and Steve Rossi, Batman and Rubin, Mercury, 1967, Courtesy of Josh Kun and Roger Bennett
Batman and Rubin auto-genuflect.
Ukrainian Jewish immigrants founded Zabar’s more than 70 years ago on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, but these days, an MTV producer named Kristen Smith rules over the beloved food emporium. Smith is the virtual mayor of Zabar’s, a title she wears proudly on foursquare, the social networking site.
The Forward discovers Foursquare.
Tablet Wins Digital ASME
Huge congrats to Tablet and FOYM Marc Tracy, editor of ‘The Scroll’ which won the 2011 National Magazine Award for Best Blogging.
Eli Valley’s latest comic masterpiece, Bucky Shvitz: Sociologist For Hire, has been making the rounds. Peter Beinart who wrote the NYRB essay, The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment, that EVERYONE in the Jew world has been talking about, commented on Eli’s comic: “This is just spectacular.”
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