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Jon Kalish

For more than a century, a synagogue known as the ‘Carnegie Hall of Brooklyn’ has been home to the US’ greatest cantors

Sacred Spaces

New York, among other cities around the globe, has been the epicenter of virtuosic cantorial performance of Jewish liturgy through melody. Now, there is an attempt to revive the practice.

Holy Catholic relics from shuttered institutions are preserved on a New York campus

Sacred Spaces

This 100-year-old synagogue tells a unique story about Jews in Finland 

Sacred Spaces
In this Aug. 9, 1945, file photo, a giant column of smoke rises after the second atomic bomb ever used in warfare explodes over the Japanese port town of Nagasaki, Japan.

‘Oppenheimer’ film ‘fails’ to show devastation of atom bombs in postwar Japan, critics say

Arts, Culture & Media
Pope Francis leads Mass and the Regina Coeli prayer in Rome's Santo Spirito in Sassia church without public participation due to an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Rome, April 19, 2020.

Catholic Twitter debates Trump’s handling of coronavirus pandemic

COVID-19
The World

Yannacone 2-Way

John Kalish profiles New York lawyer Victor Yannacone, one of the founders of the Environmental Defense Fund and a pioneer in the field of environmental litigation. From lawsuits over DDT in the 1960’s to Agent Orange battles to disputes over incinerator ash, Yannacone is acknowledged as one of the most thorough  ? and abrasive  ? […]

The World

Cutting Basic Science

Jon Kalish reports on the controversy in scientific circles over the decision to eliminate the Math Geology Section of the Kansas Geological Survey.