David Twersky (Skwerer Rebbe Of Boro Park)
David Twersky may refer to: *David Twersky (journalist) (1950–2010), journalist, Zionist activist, and peace advocate in Israel and the United States *David Twersky (Skverer Rebbe) (born 1940), Grand Rabbi and spiritual leader of the village of New Square, New York {{hndis, Twersky, David ...
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David Twersky (journalist)
David Twersky (February 19, 1950 – July 16, 2010) was a journalist, Zionist activist, and peace advocate in Israel and the United States. He was an editor for '' The Jewish Daily Forward'' and '' The New York Sun'' and a leader of the American Jewish Congress. Biography David Twerksy was born and raised in the Bronx, New York, where he grew up in the left-leaning Sholem Aleichem cooperative housing project. He attended Ramaz School in Manhattan and was active in the Labor Zionist youth movement Habonim. He attended City College of New York. In 1974, Twersky made ''aliyah'' (emigrated to Israel) and helped to re-establish Kibbutz Gezer. Twersky died of cancer on July 16, 2010, at the age of 60 in his home in West Orange, New Jersey. Journalism career In Israel, Twersky worked for the Labor Party's international affairs department, where he dealt with the Socialist International. He edited '' Shdemot'', the literary journal of the kibbutz movement, and ''Spectrum'', an ...
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