Jake Tapper gave Zelenskyy matzah during Passover
The CNN anchor joked about his experience in Ukraine — and how the Ukrainian president wasn’t so amused by the matzah — on “The Late Night with Stephen Colbert.”
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5 Jewish questions about the Jan. 6 committee hearings, answered
Remember the Proud Boys, and how the riot pushed Jared and Ivanka away from President Trump? The hearings could have it all on primetime TV.
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Chesa Boudin, Jewish prosecutor at fore of progressive wave, recalled in San Francisco
Boudin’s outlook was informed by his experience as the child of Jewish radicals who spent decades in prison.
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For the first time, female Israeli authors outpaced males in publishing in 2021
Among the notable releases was “Strangers,” a bestselling novel of female friendship by Lihi Lapid, who is married to Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid.
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Moscow’s chief rabbi in exile after refusing to back Putin’s war on Ukraine, relative says
Pinchas Goldschmidt, who was briefly kicked out of Russia in 2005, is generally tight lipped about politics.
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Jewish featherweight champion Isaac ‘Ike’ Berger dead at 85
Three-time Olympic medalist “Ike” Berger was one of the best featherweight weightlifters in U.S. history.
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Protests continue against Jewish conference featuring DeSantis
Local politicians and Jewish activists are calling on Chelsea Piers to cancel the Jewish Leadership Conference scheduled for Sunday
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Sarah Silverman, ‘Jewface’ critic, joins non-Jewish actor Bradley Cooper in Netflix’s Leonard Bernstein movie
Silverman is likely to be playing Leonard Bernstein’s sister, according to Deadline.
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Next up for Adam Sandler’s production company: A YA bat mitzvah novel adaptation
The new comes shortly after Sandler’s daughter’s own star-studded bat mitzvah.
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Israeli heirs to the ‘Top Gun’ story sue Paramount Pictures for copyright infringement
Ehud Yonay’s 1983 “Top Guns” article inspired the original movie. His family says Paramount never reacquired the rights before making the blockbuster sequel.
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Phil Ritzenberg, former editor and publisher of the New York Jewish Week, dies at 90
Ritzenberg came to the Jewish Week from the New York Daily News, where he led the tabloid’s transition to computerized typesetting.
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