Nir Bar Dea has been tapped as Bridgewater’s new co-CEO, one of two leaders of the world’s largest hedge fund, which manages $150 billion in assets. He entered finance in 2015, starting at Bridgewater as a management associate, where he made his mark merging the research, portfolio construction, and trading departments into a single investment engine, which he ran beginning in 2019. In February 2021, he was promoted to deputy CEO. In 2020, he was [...]
Ahead of Rosh Hashanah, workers remove prayer notes left by visitors in the gaps between the stones at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray in Jerusalem’s Old City. The notes are buried in a nearby cemetery according to Jewish tradition. The operation is carried out twice a year, before Rosh Hashanah in the fall, and before Passover in the spring. AP photo/Illean
Jews attend a blessing ceremony for Sukkot at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov
The United States Postal Service has issued a new forever stamp that celebrates Hanukkah. The first day of issue was Oct. 20, at Temple Emanu El in Orange Village, Ohio, at 11 a.m. The issue date was scheduled to allow purchase and use of the stamp in time for Hanukkah 2022, which begins on Dec. 18. The stamp features an original fiber arts wall hanging — hand-dyed, appliquéd and quilted to form an abstract image [...]
The Center for Hope, Humanity, and Holocaust Education, inspired by the work of artist Robert Sutz, is slated to open in Phoenix, AZ, in 2025. To date, Sutz has created more than 145 sculptural busts called “life masks” and pastel portraits of survivors, liberators, and righteous gentiles. “I want future generations to know that these people are beautiful,” Sutz says. “I feel as though I am still in a race against time; the survivors are [...]
The Israeli government has allocated approximately $6 million, to be combined with another $12 million to be raised by Hebrew University, for a museum to house the world’s largest collection of Albert Einstein documents. The museum will be built on the university’s Givat Ram campus in Jerusalem. Einstein, one of the founding fathers of Hebrew University, was a nonresident governor of the institution. Einstein, arguably one of the greatest theoretical physicists of all time, died [...]
Russ & Daughters, the legendary appetizing café, is moving to 50 Hudson Yards in New York City. Grand opening is set for spring 2023. The new 4,500-square-foot space will feature 30 counter seats that will become a Champagne and caviar bar in the evening, an area for baking bagels on view to the public, an event space and, of course, the famous appetizing counter. Also in the works is a scripted TV series and a [...]
The Tikkun Olam Initiative, a shul organization that provides charitable donations throughout the year for CAST clients, recently pledged $600 to purchase chickens and to help fill Thanksgiving baskets for CAST, which has changed its name from Community Action Southold Town to Center for Advocacy, Support and Transformation. In response to the pledge, Veronica Kaliski, one of the women who spearheads the TOI group, received the following thank-you letter from Karina Hayes, CAST’s food relief [...]
As part of the Rosh Hashanah observance, many individuals and synagogue groups participate in the tashlich ritual. Here, shul members gathered at bodies of flowing water and, with bread in hand as symbols of misdeeds over the past year, tossed their sins into the water, beginning the new year afresh. Whether it’s two friends at an inlet or a group at Southold Bay, the ceremony is fun and uplifting. Photos by SMBloom, right, and [...]
Images of 75 Holocaust Survivors Mark the 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz “Survivors: Faces of Life After the Holocaust” by renown portrait photographer Martin Schoeller is on view at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York through June 2023. The exhibit, a compelling and evocative installation of large images in a hexagonal configuration, presents a powerful message of shared human experience. The exhibit, organized by Schoeller and Yad Vashem, capitalizes on [...]
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