His bar mitzvah was ‘tragic.’ 18 years later, he turned it into a drag show. buff.ly/3O7fdOz

A 35-foot challah in NYC attempts to break a Guinness World Record buff.ly/3vQ7FK4

A colleague found this JTA | Jewish news Daily Bulletin (which persists as an email, subscribe on the upper right of jta.org) from 1935. Two things: “All the news concerning Jews” is great and we should revive it. And the brief about Nazis praising Jews is heartbreaking.

In honor of Labor Day, we remember the tragedy of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, and the effect it had on US labor law. buff.ly/3Ta8DcW

The Shefa School, designed for kids with learning disabilities, welcomes its students to a new, $100M Upper West Side campus buff.ly/3TEBQgn

Witches, abortions, suffragists: Jewish artist Tiffany Shlain’s new work is a slice of women’s history buff.ly/3Xy0IIV

Career news: I’m starting today as the New York correspondent for The Times of Israel. I’m grateful to my colleagues at JTA | Jewish news and The New York Jewish Week and proud of the work we did there, and excited for this new chapter

I’m retiring! My colleagues have organized a Zoom thing. Join us! What Kampeas Covered: JTA's long-running Washington bureau chief reflects on his career docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…