(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — In a full-page ad in Thursday’s New York Times, more than 750 New York politicians, leaders and community organizations signed a letter urging Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to ensure that paid family and medical leave remains part of the Build Back Better Act. “We thank…
(JTA) — Large Hanukkah menorahs on display in three different locales in Ukraine have been vandalized in suspected hate crimes. The latest incident occurred Tuesday in Kyiv. A menorah that was erected in the Troieshchyna district in the city’s northeast was knocked down and its lamps were smashed, Eduard Dolinksy, the director of the Ukrainian Jewish…
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — In January of 1943, Irma Lauscher, a teacher at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, smuggled a tree into the camp so that the Jewish children imprisoned by the Nazis could celebrate Tu B’Shevat in a secret ceremony. The children used their water rations to nurture…
(JTA) — Scholars do not know exactly when Jews first came to Penang, one of the smaller states in Malaysia, located on the Southeast Asian nation’s western island. The Jewish cemetery in the region’s capital city of George Town, on a street formerly called Jalan Yahudi — “Jewish Way” — gives an estimate: its first…
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Eric Adams told reporters he planned to engage in “some spiritual cleansing” during a trip to Ghana this week. Still, the appearance of New York City’s mayor-elect at a Hanukkah party Wednesday in Accra came as a surprise. Adams joined Rabbi Noach Majesky, a Brooklyn expat…
(JTA) — As the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Washington on the most significant abortion case to reach the court in decades, Israel’s health minister laid out his plans to simplify what he called Israel’s “chauvinistic” abortion process and allow women to terminate a pregnancy within its first 12 weeks without approval by a…
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — When Adrien Brody’s character burst onto the scene of HBO’s “Succession” last month, he became instantly iconic among the show’s Jewish fans. That’s thanks to his character’s visible Jewishness as well as the antisemitism he elicited. Brody’s character, Josh Aaronson, is a beanie-wearing billionaire investor who…
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Hours before the deadline for New Jersey’s “lookback” law, a fifth plaintiff and a fourth defendant were added to a civil lawsuit that was filed earlier this week against the Orthodox Union; its youth arm, the National Conference of Synagogue Youth; and Rabbi Baruch Lanner, a…
(JTA) — Footwear entrepreneur Stuart Weitzman has come to the rescue of the financially beleaguered National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. The museum had racked up $30 million in construction debt and lost ownership of its new building, emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in September. Now, a gift from Weitzman will allow the museum…
(JTA) — Jews celebrating Hanukkah in central London said they had to leave because of intimidation by men who shouted slogans about Palestine and pounded with their shoes on the windows of the Jews’ bus. The incident happened on Oxford Street on Monday, the Jewish Chronicle of London reported. A video of the incident has…
Facebook continues to allow individuals and some groups to share Holocaust denial content, despite a policy change last year aimed at targeting this issue, according to a report by the Anti-Defamation League released Wednesday. The organization offered examples that include a link to a video titled, “Holocaust Lies Exposed” and “Mainstream Holocaust Narrative ‘Substantially, if…
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