NEW YORK, Feb. 13 (JTA) Abraham Beame, the first Jewish mayor of New York, died Saturday at 94 of complications from open-heart surgery. The son of Polish Jewish immigrants who grew up on the ...

It didn’t hurt, when it came to land assembly and public subsidies, that he was a key supporter of Brooklyn machine Democrats and a close friend and ally of Abraham Beame, city comptroller in ...

(Becker was a longtime associate of Abraham Beame, who was months away from being elected mayor when Kaye and Cohen filed their complaint.) Becker’s ruling followed testimony by the Pierre’s ...

The holy Patriarch Abraham, born a pagan, ten generations after Noah, when the knowledge of God had perished from among men, became the beginning of God's dispensation for the universal renewal and ...

Shaye Cohen: The biblical narrative gets going with Abraham in Genesis chapter 12. Abraham in turn Isaac, in turn Jacob, in turn Joseph and the twelve tribes, this brings us directly to the people ...

"I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane," remarked Abraham Maslow, one of the founders of humanistic psychology. He was born and raised in Brooklyn, the eldest of seven children.

The Middle East has experienced a significant upheaval since the ratification of the Abraham Accords in September 2020, which marked a paradigm shift in the Arab-Israel conflict – ongoing since ...

Scott Abraham is the 7News Sports Director. He joined 7News in January 2016 as a Sports Reporter/Anchor. Scott was born and raised in Utica, NY. He attended Syracuse University graduating from the ...

Onlookers at the Abraham Lincoln statue in Lincoln Park which was defaced with red paint overnight and discovered Monday. Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times Share Vandals splashed red paint and ...