(JTA) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. compared what he sees as threats to human life from 5G, vaccine passports, and “low-orbit satellites” to the threat the Nazis posed to Jews during the Holocaust. “Even in Hitler’s Germany, you could cross the Alps into Switzerland, you can hide in the attic like Anne Frank did…Today the…
(JTA) — Cecile Klein, an energetic supercentenarian with ties to Montreal’s Jewish community and institutions, spent seven months as Canada’s oldest person, before passing away on Jan. 13. An obituary for Klein published in the Canadian Jewish News notes that in addition to living through two pandemics and two world wars, and working for her…
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Mordechai Lightstone and his wife, Chana, are renovating their house in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights — removing walls in the living room, dining room and hallway — so they’ll have plenty of space for guests when they are able to start hosting visitors again. Lightstone, 37 —…
(JTA) — Two Austrian cities are removing statues created by a prominent artist after the artist shared a picture of the Israeli flag with the star of David made up of syringes, the latest in a series of protests against pandemic rules to feature antisemitic tropes. Manfred Kielnhofer is a sculptor whose “Guardian of Time”…
(JTA) — Josh Rawitch’s day-to-day is similar to that of any nonprofit executive: He speaks to stakeholders, supervises senior staff and fundraises. But in his line of work, stakeholders include people like Jewish baseball legend Sandy Koufax. Since September, Rawitch has served as president of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown,…
ANN ARBOR, Michigan (JTA) – For 18 years, a group of protesters has gathered every Saturday outside one of this city’s synagogues during Shabbat morning services, brandishing signs with slogans such as “Jewish Power Corrupts.” This week, the city council of Ann Arbor for the first time issued a formal resolution condemning the protests as…
A 21-year-old woman was arrested Friday for hurling antisemitic invectives at three young Jewish children, threatening to kill them and the spitting in one of their faces. The incident, captured on surveillance video, showed a woman yelling at siblings – 8, 7, and 2 – outside a Brooklyn synagogue, “Hitler should have killed you all….
(JTA) — U.S. Jewish groups slammed a top Presbyterian Church official for Martin Luther King Day remarks that equated Israel’s West Bank occupation with slavery and implied that American Jews have the influence to get the U.S. government to end it. “The continued occupation in Palestine/Israel is 21st-century slavery and should be abolished immediately,” Rev….
(JTA) — Rep. Lauren Boebert asked a group of kippah-wearing Jewish visitors in a U.S. Capitol building elevator on Thursday if they were there to do “reconnaissance,” Buzzfeed News reported. The outspoken Colorado Republican claimed the comment was a joke tied to criticism she has received over Capitol tours she reportedly gave in the days…
(JTA) — Jon Stewart will be awarded this year’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in recognition of his political satire and activism. The award will be presented in April. Past recipients of the award, which is given to comedians who have “had an impact on American society…
(JTA) – Dvora Hacohen’s biography of Hadassah founder Henriette Szold won two honors, including Jewish Book of the Year, from the Jewish Book Council in their annual awards list. “To Repair a Broken World: The Life of Henrietta Szold, Founder of Hadassah,” which includes a forward by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, also was named best biography….
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