Yom Kippur: A time for feasting as well as fasting
September 21, 2018
—Ted Merwin
Travel with Ted Merwin through the history of Yom Kippur into the current practice of the holiday and how Yom Kippur has been referenced in today’s pop culture.
Category: New York
The Campaign to Win the Vote for Women: Why Social Change Takes Time
March 1, 2018
—Johanna Neuman
It is easy to forget just how controversial was this idea that women should have the vote and the fight for women’s voting rights lasted far beyond inking the Nineteenth Amendment into the U.S. Constitution.
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade: A New York Jewish Story
November 20, 2017
—Deborah Dash Moore
Deborah Dash Moore tells the New York Jewish story behind the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Marching for Cristoforo
October 9, 2017
—Paul Moses
Taking into account family ties to another Cristoforo from Italy, Paul Moses explains why Italian immigrants embraced Columbus, and why he’s marching in this year’s parade.
Women’s Suffrage: The Centennial
September 29, 2017
2017 marks the centennial of women gaining the right to vote in New York. Did you know that our great state was a paramount player in the national movement for women’s suffrage? From Woodstock to Williamsburg, Seneca Falls to Chinatown, Buffalo to Battery Park, women in New York were leaders in the movement for 69 years, until suffrage was legalized in 1917.
Our City, Our Stories
September 8, 2017
New York City’s remarkable history, intimate stories, and struggles.
The ‘Mere Men’ Who Helped Win the Vote for Women
August 25, 2017
—Johanna Neuman
Men did not win the vote for women – female activists did. But perhaps this is how social change is made – a few brave souls standing up for what is right.
The Women Who Won the Vote: Katherine Duer Mackay
August 24, 2017
—Johanna Neuman
The second in a series of profiles of New York City’s elite women who helped push women’s suffrage over the finish line.