(JTA) — Yes, Quentin Tarantino is learning Hebrew — at the same speed as his toddler. The famed non-Jewish American director, who has been married to Israeli singer and actress Daniella Pick since 2018, opened up Tuesday night on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” about his new life in Israel, which included a longer-than-expected stint in Tel…
Israeli contortionist Roman Kricheli is going viral after squeezing himself into a ten-inch cube on “America’s Got Talent.” A YouTube video of his audition has garnered more than 350,000 views. Kricheli, who has been performing his “yoga show” for over 35 years, was costumed in silky white pants and a cropped red vest and accompanied…
Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers, a Republican, appeared on an antisemitic online TV network last week to promote the state’s baseless 2020 election audit. The appearance, originally reported by a Twitter account called AZ Right Wing Watch and later covered by the left-leaning watchdog Media Matters, featured Rogers in an interview with the white nationalist…
(JTA) — Jewish emergency response services are participating in a search-and-rescue mission after a 12-story apartment building collapsed in Surfside, Florida, a heavily Orthodox town near Miami Beach. At least one person has been killed in the collapse, which took place without warning at about 2 a.m., and authorities in Surfside say they fear many…
(JTA) — The Biden administration and Angela Merkel’s government are signing a letter of intent to share information and strategies on advancing Holocaust education. Antony Blinken, the U.S. secretary of state, and Heiko Maas, the German foreign minister will sign a letter of intent on Thursday at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe…
(JTA) — A hedge fund founder and major donor to Orthodox Jewish causes has been sentenced to a seven-month prison term for his involvement in a scheme to bribe the head of the New York City prison guard union. Murray Huberfeld, 60, was sentenced Tuesday after having pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy over a…
(JTA) — Several children in Poland toppled 63 headstones of Jewish graves because they wanted to use the slabs to build a fortress, they told police. The group of five 12-year-olds had been working on the project for several days at the disused graveyard in Wroclaw, in western Poland, Gazeta Wyborcza reported Thursday. Police stopped…
(JTA) — A majority of Americans disapprove of how President Joe Biden is handling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — they are split about why. More Republicans are saying Biden should be more supportive of Israel, while more Democrats want better backing for the Palestinians, according to a poll published Wednesday. The survey by The Associated Press…
This article was originally published by THE CITY. Sign up here to get the latest from THE CITY delivered to your inbox each morning. Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams emerged as the early leader in the Democratic mayoral primary Tuesday, gaining more initial first-place votes than any contender in the crowded field. But New Yorkers…
(JTA) — The New York Police Department is investigating the firing of a bullet into an empty synagogue in Brooklyn on Shabbat. No one was hurt in the incident at Khal Zichron Mordechai in the East Midwood neighborhood. The police told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that its Hate Crimes Task Force has been notified of…
A slow stream of voters were headed to the polls in the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn on Tuesday in what many say is a test of the Orthodox community’s historic influence in New York City. Posters hung up on poles across the neighborhood overnight urged people to participate in the primary. “We have to…
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