(JTA) — Violence against Palestinians in the West Bank has been an ongoing issue for years. But this year, the phenomenon reached a new level with violent attacks perpetrated by settlers agains Palestinians in the West Bank exceeding last year’s attacks by nearly 50%, according to a report by The Times of Israel. In 2021, there…
(JTA) — A Cuban restaurant is no place for a Jewish piglet to be so close to Christmas — unless of course, that pig is being pardoned in Miami’s annual pig pardoning ceremony. Since 2017, Miami has celebrated a pig pardoning event ahead of Christmas in recognition of the large Hispanic population in the South…
The swearing-in ceremony traditionally takes place at 12 p.m. on the first day of the year
(JTA) — The 19th-century German historian who coined the phrase, later popularized by the Nazis, “the Jews are our misfortune” has a street named for him in Berlin. So does a 15th-century official who supported a murderous purge of Jews from his region, and a competitive athlete who was a darling of the Nazi regime….
Most people who study Talmud go with the Babylonian one, and pay scant attention to its older, more difficult cousin — the Jerusalem Talmud. Sefaria, the non-profit library, released a new, online English translation of it this week in hopes that more people will delve into the challenging compendium of Jewish law. It’s free. And…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League has joined the District of Columbia attorney-general in a lawsuit against two extremist groups that allegedly help organize the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. The civil rights group and antisemitism watchdog said it helped identify plaintiffs in the case. A congressional panel is scrutinizing the insurrection and…
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Dozens of New York City rabbis, including leaders of some of the city’s largest synagogues, signed an open letter calling on the New York City Council to pass legislation ending solitary confinement in the city’s prison system. The letter, published Tuesday by the liberal rabbinic human…
(JTA) — A professor in Gaza whom the New York Times profiled as “calmly teaching Israeli poetry” has in fact derided Israeli poems in class, according to a 266-word editor’s note the newspaper appended to the original story Tuesday. The article, written by the paper’s Jerusalem bureau chief Patrick Kingsley and published last month, “did…
(JTA) — Europe’s two kosher foie gras factories aren’t in France, by far the leading consumer of the fatty liver product. Nor are they in England, home to Europe’s second-largest Jewish population. Instead, they are both in Hungary — where there are few Jews and no more than half a dozen kosher eateries in total. Part…
(JTA) — Programs of Jewish study that break with the gender-segregated traditions of the Orthodox yeshiva are coming to Chicago and Washington. Hadar, the New York-based egalitarian yeshiva, announced Sunday that it would hire a full-time staffer to run classes in Chicago. And in Washington, D.C., Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld, rabbi of the Modern Orthodox synagogue…
(JTA) — The Golden Globes won’t be televised, but there will be Jewish honorees — among them two directors at different stages of their directing careers. After numerous controversies have rattled the Hollywood Foreign Press Association — from a “culture of corruption” to not a single Black member — NBC decided it will not be…
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