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JTA Elon Musk lays wreath at Auschwitz after private tour with Ben Shapiro and European rabbi 22 Jan 2024
Tech magnate Elon Musk visited Auschwitz on a private tour ahead of his engagement with European Jewish leaders at the European Jewish Association conference...
22 Jan 2024
JTA ‘Nazi Town, USA,’ a new PBS documentary, examines the 1930s heyday of Hitler’s acolytes in the US 22 Jan 2024
The new PBS documentary Nazi Town, USA explores the rise and fall of the German American Bund, a pro-Nazi organization that attracted about 100,000 members i...
22 Jan 2024
JTA As DeSantis exits presidential race, Trump takes aim at Haley as ‘the candidate of the globalists’ 22 Jan 2024
Ron DeSantis has ended his presidential campaign, leaving Nikki Haley as the primary challenger to Donald Trump. Haley, who has close ties to the pro-Israel ...
22 Jan 2024
JTA Kill it or reform it? Jewish critics of DEI debate the future of campus diversity programs 21 Jan 2024
Jewish critics are debating the future of campus diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. Some argue that DEI programs often ignore Jewish concerns a...
21 Jan 2024
JTA The Jewish Sport Report: Who’s the next Jewish MLB Hall of Famer? We asked the experts. 19 Jan 2024
The Jewish Sport Report explores the question of who will be the next Jewish player to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame after Sandy Koufax and Hank...
19 Jan 2024
JTA ‘Origin’ story: How Ava DuVernay’s new movie connects the Holocaust, slavery and caste 19 Jan 2024
The movie "Origin," directed by Ava DuVernay and based on Isabel Wilkerson's book "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents," explores the connections between t...
19 Jan 2024
JTA When Elie Wiesel came to my summer camp, and what he taught me about speaking the unspeakable 19 Jan 2024
In this article, the author reflects on their encounter with Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and author of the memoir Night, during a summer camp in 1966. ...
19 Jan 2024
JTA Maccabi Haifa to play Belgian soccer club in front of empty stadium due to safety concerns amid Israel-Hamas war 19 Jan 2024
Israeli soccer club Maccabi Haifa will play against the Belgian team KAA Gent in an empty stadium due to safety concerns related to the Israel-Hamas war. The...
19 Jan 2024
JTA We spoke to the Jews advising Donald Trump, Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis 18 Jan 2024
In this article, Jewish advisors to three Republican candidates for the 2024 US Presidential election are interviewed. David Friedman, former ambassador to I...
18 Jan 2024
JTA How a 3-hour play about antisemitism in France became Broadway’s must-see show 18 Jan 2024
"Prayer for the French Republic," a three-hour play about antisemitism, has become a must-see show on Broadway. The play tells the story of a French Jewish f...
18 Jan 2024
JTA Matzah ball soup dumplings, a mashup of Ashkenazi and Asian cuisines, are on offer at this Brooklyn eatery 17 Jan 2024
Lucky Rabbit Noodles in Brooklyn is offering a unique dish called matzah ball soup dumplings, which combines Ashkenazi and Asian flavors. The owner and chef,...
17 Jan 2024
JTA ‘Our Class,’ a timely play asking big questions about antisemitism, makes its New York premiere 17 Jan 2024
"Our Class," a play inspired by the real-life 1941 pogrom in the Polish village of Jedwabne, makes its New York premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's F...
17 Jan 2024
JTA Jewish Life Stories: John Lennon’s lawyer, Michael Oren’s mom 17 Jan 2024
Leon Wildes, the immigration attorney famous for his successful battle to prevent the deportation of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, has passed away at the age of ...
17 Jan 2024
JTA His bar mitzvah was ‘tragic.’ 18 years later, he turned it into a drag show. 16 Jan 2024
Michael Witkes, a professional drag queen known as Pink Pancake, is turning a tragic bar mitzvah experience into a one-woman drag show, called "Today You Are...
16 Jan 2024
JTA Bernie Steinberg, a Harvard Hillel director who promoted pluralism, dies at 78 16 Jan 2024
Bernie Steinberg, former director of Harvard Hillel, has passed away at the age of 78. Steinberg was known for his commitment to pluralism and creating an in...
16 Jan 2024
JTA Pro-Palestinian protesters target Memorial Sloan Kettering cancer center, accusing it of ‘genocide’ 16 Jan 2024
Pro-Palestinian protesters targeted Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, accusing it of abetting genocide. The protest was led by a pro-Palest...
16 Jan 2024
JTA A new Israeli restaurant in Brooklyn confidently opens in a NYC transformed by Oct. 7 16 Jan 2024
Nina, an Israeli restaurant in Brooklyn, opened despite the ongoing Israel-Hamas war and anti-Israel protests. The restaurant, led by Israeli chef Sagi Azrou...
16 Jan 2024
JTA 70 Faces Media to hold Jewish Digital Summit to help Jewish professionals do digital better 16 Jan 2024
70 Faces Media, the parent company of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, will be hosting the Jewish Digital Summit 2024, a three-day virtual conference in Februa...
16 Jan 2024
JTA A murder victim was anonymous for 13 years. Jewish genealogists found her name. 15 Jan 2024
The identity of a murder victim, whose body was found decapitated and mutilated in 2011 in California, was recently discovered by Jewish genealogists. The vi...
15 Jan 2024
JTA Released hostage and families of those still captive join thousands at rally marking 100 days since Oct. 7 12 Jan 2024
Thousands of people, including a recently released Israeli child hostage and relatives of those still held captive by Hamas, gathered outside the United Nati...
12 Jan 2024
JTA The Jewish Sport Report: A Jewish guide to the NFL playoffs 12 Jan 2024
This article provides an overview of the upcoming NFL playoffs and highlights two Jewish players, A.J. Dillon and Michael Dunn, who are still in the playoffs...
12 Jan 2024
JTA Jewish liturgy includes a curse against our enemies. We can be OK with that. 12 Jan 2024
The author reflects on the 12th blessing of the Amidah, a curse against enemies in Jewish liturgy. They initially found it difficult to connect with the pray...
12 Jan 2024
JTA In hopeless times, we need to the courage to speak up — and to listen 12 Jan 2024
The author reflects on the courage to speak up and listen in difficult times. They recount a dinner with friends where they discussed their thoughts on the w...
12 Jan 2024
JTA South Africa lays out its case as Israel is put on trial for genocide at the International Court of Justice 11 Jan 2024
South Africa presented its case at the International Court of Justice, accusing Israel of committing genocide during its war against Hamas in Gaza. South Afr...
11 Jan 2024
JTA 10 Jewish ways to mark Martin Luther King Day in New York this year 11 Jan 2024
Jewish communities in New York City are planning various events and activities to honor Martin Luther King Jr. on his birthday. Some synagogues, like Temple ...
11 Jan 2024
JTA Tunnel at Chabad headquarters stretches 60 feet, NYC investigators discover 11 Jan 2024
New York City investigators have uncovered an illicit underground tunnel stretching 60 feet underneath a building adjacent to the main synagogue at Chabad's ...
11 Jan 2024
JTA This 1939 movie filmed in the Bronx captures a lost Yiddish world 10 Jan 2024
The New York Jewish Film Festival is featuring a 1939 Yiddish-language movie called "Mothers of Today," which was filmed in the Bronx in just five days. The ...
10 Jan 2024
JTA The controversial tunnel at Chabad’s Brooklyn headquarters, explained 10 Jan 2024
A group of individuals attempted to break through a synagogue wall at Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in order to expand the comple...
10 Jan 2024
JTA Jewish Life Stories: Hasidic filmmaker Menachem Daum, pioneering publisher Carol Hupping Fisher  10 Jan 2024
Menachem Daum, a Hasidic filmmaker, died at the age of 77. He made documentaries that challenged stereotypes about haredi Jews and Polish gentiles. Daum soug...
10 Jan 2024
JTA Antisemitic incidents have ‘skyrocketed’ in the United States post-Oct. 7, ADL reports 10 Jan 2024
According to a report by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), incidents of antisemitism in the United States have surged since Hamas' invasion of Israel on Octo...
10 Jan 2024
JTA Amid war, this Israeli educator is finding new ways to promote Jewish-Arab coexistence 9 Jan 2024
Karen Tal, CEO of the Amal educational network in Israel, is working to promote Jewish-Arab coexistence during times of war. As the conflict between Israel a...
9 Jan 2024
JTA Boston writer Norm Finkelstein, whose YA books championed Jewish heroes, dies at 82 9 Jan 2024
Norman H. Finkelstein, a Boston writer and educator, has passed away at the age of 82. Finkelstein was known for his nonfiction books and biographies for old...
9 Jan 2024
JTA 12 arrested as fracas breaks out over tunnel at Chabad headquarters 9 Jan 2024
A dispute over a tunnel at the Chabad-Lubavitch movements world headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn led to 12 arrests. The tunnel, which was opened by Ch...
9 Jan 2024
JTA Gabriel Attal, France’s new prime minister, says his Jewish ancestry has shaped him 9 Jan 2024
Gabriel Attal, France's youngest-ever prime minister and first openly gay prime minister, has spoken about how his Jewish ancestry has shaped him. Attal's mo...
9 Jan 2024
JTA Survivors of the Nova massacre on Oct. 7 work through trauma at unique Israeli therapy center 8 Jan 2024
Survivors of the Nova massacre, in which 1,200 Israelis were killed, including attendees of the Nova music festival near Gaza, are finding healing and suppor...
8 Jan 2024
JTA Why Golden Globes attendees are wearing yellow ribbon pins at the 2024 awards ceremony 8 Jan 2024
At the 2024 Golden Globes awards ceremony, attendees are wearing yellow ribbon pins on their red carpet outfits. The pins are a symbol of solidarity with Isr...
8 Jan 2024
JTA The real story behind ‘One Life,’ the movie starring Anthony Hopkins as Nicholas Winton, who rescued Jewish children from the Nazis 5 Jan 2024
The article discusses the real story behind the movie "One Life," which portrays the efforts of Nicholas Winton, a British stockbroker who rescued Jewish chi...
5 Jan 2024
JTA The Jewish Sport Report: Why Kyrie Irving is making Jewish headlines again 5 Jan 2024
The article discusses an incident involving NBA player Kyrie Irving and rabbis from Chabad who brought signs expressing Jewish pride to a game. Irving claims...
5 Jan 2024
JTA At the Jewish Museum, gut-wrenching drawings depict the terror of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel 5 Jan 2024
The Jewish Museum in New York is showcasing an exhibit called "7 October 2023" featuring 12 drawings by Israeli artist Zoya Cherkassy in response to the Hama...
5 Jan 2024
JTA What Jews are feeling now is an inheritance of values — and trauma 5 Jan 2024
In the wake of recent events, such as the attacks on Israeli Jews by Hamas and the rise of antisemitic incidents around the world, many Jews are feeling a st...
5 Jan 2024
JTA Holocaust survivor who became a bat mitzvah at 91 dies in Buenos Aires 4 Jan 2024
Eugenia Unger, a Holocaust survivor and founding member of the Holocaust Museum of Buenos Aires, passed away at the age of 97. In 2017, she made headlines wh...
4 Jan 2024
JTA Jewish outfielder Harrison Bader signs with the New York Mets 4 Jan 2024
Jewish outfielder Harrison Bader has signed a one-year, $10.5 million contract with the New York Mets. Bader, a Bronxville native, will be the team's first J...
4 Jan 2024
JTA Wars in Israel and Ukraine take center stage in Israel for Jews with roots in the former Soviet Union 4 Jan 2024
Jews with roots in the former Soviet Union gathered in Israel for an event organized by Limmud FSU to express solidarity and strengthen their sense of commun...
4 Jan 2024
JTA Larger-than-life Bushwick mural shows Israeli and Palestinian children embracing 4 Jan 2024
Amid Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza, a larger-than-life mural was painted on a building in Bushwick, showing an Israeli boy and a Palestinian boy embraci...
4 Jan 2024
JTA A Tel Aviv exhibit recreates the Nova massacre site in exacting detail, with healing as an aim 3 Jan 2024
A new exhibit in Tel Aviv has recreated the site of the Nova music festival massacre, which took place on October 7, 2022. The exhibit aims to raise funds fo...
3 Jan 2024
JTA 7 members of India’s Bnei Menashe community reportedly killed in rocket attack near synagogue 2 Jan 2024
Seven members of the Bnei Menashe Jewish community in India were killed in a rocket attack near a synagogue in the state of Manipur. The attack was not inten...
2 Jan 2024
JTA Israeli parliamentary committee says 7 members of India’s Bnei Menashe community killed in rocket attack near synagogue 2 Jan 2024
According to an Israeli parliamentary committee, seven members of the Bnei Menashe Jewish community in India were killed in a rocket attack near a synagogue ...
2 Jan 2024
JTA Israeli soldier Amichai Oster, son of former JTA writer and editor, is killed in Gaza 2 Jan 2024
Amichai Oster, a 24-year-old Israeli-American, was killed while fighting in the northern Gaza Strip. Oster, the son of former writer and editor of the Jewish...
2 Jan 2024
JTA In unprecedented decision, Israel’s Supreme Court strikes down law limiting its power 2 Jan 2024
In a significant ruling, the Israeli Supreme Court has struck down a law that limited its power, reversing a piece of legislation that aimed to weaken the ju...
2 Jan 2024
JTA Remembering Misha Avramoff, a champion of Jewish education and New York’s poor 1 Jan 2024
Misha Avramoff, who passed away at age 83, was a champion of Jewish education and serving the Jewish poor in New York. As the co-director of Project Ezra, he...
1 Jan 2024