The FilAm reports that an Asian-American cast staged the musical through the organization National Asian Artists Project, which promotes the visibility of Asian actors on Broadway.

Asian Americans who have bucked the trends and stepped into politics talked about their foray into the field, as well as the chances of an Asian-American being elected as president, reports The FilAm.

One of the country’s largest Reform synagogues has selected Angela Warnick Buchdahl as its Senior Rabbi, reports the Jewish Daily Forward. Her multicultural background reflects the changing faces of the Jewish community.

In a sign of the increasing diversity of the Jewish community, Cantor Angela Buchdahl could soon be head rabbi at the historic Central Synagogue – but with Ashkenazi Jewish and Korean roots, she wasn’t always so confident in her Jewish identity, reports The Jewish Daily Forward.

Seven mayoral candidates confirmed but only four showed up for a forum put together by around 50 Asian-American groups, reports The FilAm. Upset at the turnout, organizers and audience members took the absence as a disregard of their priorities.

In an opinion piece published in Feet in Two Worlds, Erwin de Leon wonders why immigration is almost exclusively considered a “Latino issue,” even as more and more Asian Americans support comprehensive immigration reform.

A study by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund based on Election Day exit polls found that Asian Americans overwhelmingly voted for Barack Obama and as many as 96 percent of Bangladeshi Americans went for the president.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, residents of Knickerbocker Village, a complex of 13 buildings in the Lower East Side, are most concerned about when the power and heat will return, the Sing Tao Daily reported. But in the meantime they got a break from the unappetizing food they have been getting recently.

Victories swept through Chinese, Korean and Albanian New Yorkers as one of their own became the first of their community to attain political office – in Congress for Grace Meng and in the State Assembly for Ron Kim and Mark Gjonaj.

Some 80 congressional candidates from immigrant communities are on Tuesday’s ballots across the country, including Grace Meng in Queens, reports Feet in 2 Worlds, based on a 46-page report from The New American Leaders Project.

According to a new report, Asian American voters in New York and across the country found polling places on Primary Day that did not offered the required translation services and poll workers that provided inaccurate information, the World Journal reported.

Today we have news of a debate over equity in New York City schools; a call for adoption within the African-American community; plans for Salvadorean expatriates to vote in their country’s 2014 presidential elections; more from a controversial study about Asian-Americans; deported slave-holders; and sad news about two independent bookstores.

Asian-American advocates took issue with a recent Pew Research Center report that described them as the highest-earning and most-educated group in America, a portrayal which they argue ignores the disparities among Asian-Americans, Colorlines reports.

As Asian American organization unveiled its newly-drawn “Unity Map” on Nov. 16, in an effort to increase community representation.