The first basket in NBA history was scored by a Jewish guard. Nearly 80 years later, Jewish players and executives are still making basketball history.
In Israel’s cultural “solyanka,” post-Soviet aliyah spans generations — from those who rebuilt in the 1990s to today’s newcomers facing new fears and freedoms.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Harlem’s Jewish community was the third-largest in the world, just behind Warsaw, Poland, and the Lower East Side.