(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Brad Lander, the incoming New York City comptroller, vowed to do everything in his power to coax Orthodox yeshivas to teach a secular curriculum. Lander, who is Jewish and a Democrat, discussed the issue Thursday night in a virtual Q-and-A with the New York Jewish Agenda, a progressive…
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — When Andy Corren’s mother, Renay Mandel Corren, died on Saturday in El Paso, Tex., at age 84, he did what many bereaved children with a creative bent would do: He wrote an obituary. “A more disrespectful, trash-reading, talking and watching woman in NC, FL or TX…
(JTA) — Just after the conclusion of Hanukkah, the Worcester Academy varsity girls’ basketball team prepared to face a rival private school. Head coach Sherry Levin addressed her team before tipoff. The theme of her pregame pep talk? The shamash. “The shamash candle doesn’t lose any of its brightness by lighting all the rest,” Levin…
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the pro-Israel lobbying organization, is often described as “powerful,” but not because it showers dollars on political candidates. The group seeks influence by lobbying policymakers, and AIPAC members make political donations independently. But now AIPAC has launched political action committees that can send dollars directly to pro-Israel candidates. The…
(JTA) — “A plus-sized Jewish lady redneck died in El Paso on Saturday.” It’s considered poor journalistic form to begin an article with a quotation. But journalists are also supposed to show, not tell, and there’s no better way to explain the irreverent, hilarious obituary that Andy Corren wrote for his mother, Renay Mandel Corren,…
(JTA) — Henry Orenstein, a Holocaust survivor who went on to invent the Transformers toys and became a major donor to Jewish and Israeli causes, died Tuesday at the age of 98. Orenstein became a best-selling toy maker with his Transformers line, which he first created in the early 1980s. He followed up on that…
This article originally appeared in Haaretz and was reprinted here with permission. Sunday, December 12, Abu Dhabi. It’s 23 degrees Celsius, the relative humidity is 60 percent and an 18 kilometer per hour northwesterly wind is blowing. Not ideal weather for running, but nothing stops A. – a senior commander at the VIP security unit…
(JTA) — Fox News removed from social media a cartoon depicting George Soros as a puppet master after the Anti-Defamation League called out the conservative news giant for peddling antisemitic tropes. “As we have told @FoxNews numerous times, casting a Jewish individual as a puppet master who manipulates national events for malign purposes conjures up…
(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
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