BERLIN (JTA) — The city of Dusseldorf has agreed to return an Expressionist painting estimated to be worth $18 million to the heirs of its original Jewish owner this week in a move that could set a precedent for German restitution claims. Kurt Grawi, a Jewish businessman and art collector, fled Nazi Germany for Chile…
(JTA) — Idaho and West Virginia have joined the growing list of states that over the past several years have passed anti-Israel boycott legislation aimed at outlawing businesses that support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. The bills passed this week bring the number of states with similar laws to 33. Idaho’s Anti-Boycott Against Israel…
(JTA) — Gugulethu Moyo’s speech this week at a conference for staff members at American Jewish museums was supposed to help chart an optimistic future for the field. Moyo had planned to talk about how to cultivate leaders from marginalized groups in museums, drawing on her experience as the first Jew of color to head a…
Tragedy has struck before on Lag Ba’Omer at Mt. Meron. On Thursday, at least 45 Jews died and more than 150 were injured in a stampede at the mountain in northern Israel. In 1911, an estimated 10,000 people gathered to sing and dance before the traditional Lag Ba’Omer bonfires on the mountain, not far from…
A teacher at a South Florida Chabad Lubavitch school was in custody for allegedly inappropriately touching a student
At least four U.S. citizens and one Argentine are among the 45 victims of the deadly stampede during Lag Ba’omer festivities in northern Israel overnight Thursday, according to the Foreign Ministry. The White House released a statement Friday saying that the United States was working to confirm reports of U.S. citizens killed or wounded in…
The Union for Reform Judaism has hired a law firm to investigate claims of sexual misconduct and assault after news of a prominent movement leader’s abuse surfaced in the Forward this week, the URJ said in an emailed statement. The law firm Debevoise & Plimpton will conduct the investigation, led by Mary Beth Hogan, the…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Joe Biden offered assistance to Israel in the wake of a deadly stampede on Lag b’Omer in Israel’s North. Biden said in a statement released Friday by the White House that he had called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “The loss of life among worshipers practicing their faith is heartbreaking,” Biden said….
(JTA) — Paris will soon inaugurate in its historic Jewish quarter a street named for Sarah Halimi, Mayor Anne Hidalgo said amid protests over authorities’ handling of the killing. Hidalgo made the announcement on Sunday following a rally by about 20,000 people, mostly Jews, who demonstrated against the April 14 ruling by France’s highest court…
(JTA) — Students in Wisconsin will now be required to study the Holocaust at least twice between fifth and 12th grade. A bill signed Wednesday by Gov. Tony Evers mandates that lessons about the Holocaust and other genocides be included in social studies classes at least once between fifth and eighth grade, and again in…
At least 45 Haredi Jews were killed in northern Israel early Friday morning, the authorities said, when a stampede erupted during Lag B’Omer festivities on Mount Meron that drew some 100,000 people despite warnings that it could become a COVID-19 super-spreader event. At least 150 were injured, many of them seriously, with at least six…
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