This week my marriage equality road trip takes me to Fargo, North Dakota this week, then on to Minneapolis. We have big news from four states in the Sixth Ci...

It may not have been the showbiz extravaganza featuring Meryl Streep crying in 5 accents that she asked for, but Joan Rivers funeral on Sunday, September 7, 2014 at NYC's Temple Eanu-El was still quite the A-list affair. Hollywood Life reports that Hugh Jackman, Howard Stern, Donald Trump, Whoopi G...

This Sunday our community will observe Tisha B'av and turn our attention to the city of Jerusalem, mourning the destruction of its temples some two millenniums ago. Here is the most famous love song to Jerusalem, my hometown, sung with my amazing colleagues Cantors Netanel Herstik and Yaakov Lemmer ...

For this season's video documenting São Paulo Fashion Week's summer shows, we narrow our sights on the the bikini. With help from a few fashion types—editors...

• A clip from A King in New York (1957) with Charlie Chaplin and Michael Chaplin.

To commemorate World Pride, taking place in New York City on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in late June, the New York Public Libray has curated a stunning exhibition exploring the early fight for LGBTQ rights. The exhibit features the photographs of Kay Tobin Lahusen and Diana Davies—”

In honor of One World Trade Center becoming the tallest building in New York, EarthCam has released an exciting time-lapse movie showcasing the construction progress from 2004-2012. Watch years of construction in just two minutes!

When America was back to work and New York City was growing up into the sky someone had to document the work that was happening, no matter how dangerous, and that photographer was Charles C. Ebbets. Most well known for taking the 1932 photo “Men on a Beam” of 11 steelworkers eating lunch high above

This video shows three direct strikes to the Empire State Building lightning rod after midnight on 4/13/11 during a severe thunderstorm. I actually saw a fourth strike but was not filming. Whoever said lightning doesn't strike twice was wrong. :)

While the iconic Empire State and Chrysler buildings have dominated New York's Midtown since the 1930s, one of the largest buildings that the city has ever known - One Vanderbilt - is about to join them on the skyline.