(JTA) — Pop star Billie Eilish provoked a wave of angry criticism on social media after posting a short video online promoting her new album to Israeli fans. “Hi Israel, this is Billie Eilish, and I’m so excited that my new album, ‘Happier Than Ever,’ is out now,” she says in a clip posted to…
(JTA) — Carl Levin, the Jewish Michigander whose avuncularity masked the skills of a fierce inquisitor during his 36 years in the Senate, has died at 87. The Levin Center at Wayne State University Law School announced Levin’s passing on Thursday. It did not give a date or cause of death. Levin was diagnosed with…
President Biden plans to nominate Deborah Lipstadt as the State Department’s special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism on Friday, sources familiar with the decision have confirmed. Lipstadt is a preeminent historian of the Holocaust who teaches at Emory University in Atlanta and was the protagonist of the 2016 film “Denial,” about her successful defeat…
Adrienne Katz wished she could have been in Tokyo, watching her son, American-born pitcher Alex Katz, pitch for Team Israel against South Korea — an experience COVID restrictions denied her. But the next best thing was to gather with other fans at the Jewish National Fund on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, where —…
In an unsurprising New York Times guest essay, the founders of Ben and Jerry’s wrote that they “unequivocally support the decision of the company to end business in the occupied territories.” But in a surprising twist, the article byline reveals that Ben Cohen is no Benjamin or Benyamin, but in fact a… Bennett. Bennett, as…
(JTA) — The Jewish founders of Ben & Jerry’s defended the ice cream company’s boycott of Israel’s West Bank settlements in an op-ed in the The New York Times. Bennett Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, who sold the company decades ago and maintain no control over its operations, wrote in the op-ed Wednesday that they…
(JTA) — Jared Kushner, former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and onetime senior adviser, is quitting politics to focus on investment, particularly on businesses that advance Israeli-Arab peace, according to a report. Kushner’s business will be called Infinity Partners and will be based in Miami, where Kushner and his wife Ivanka now live, Reuters reported, quoting…
(JTA) — Talk about goals: Luke Hughes has become the third brother in his hockey-playing Jewish family to be drafted in the first round of the NHL Draft. The New Jersey Devils picked the 17-year-old defenseman fourth overall in Friday’s selections, making the Hughes brothers of Orlando, Florida, the first American family to have three…
A key ally of Eric Adams, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, met with a group of Orthodox leaders in Brooklyn on Tuesday following a bitter primary last month. “Adams is building his core team to make sure that there’s a voice in every part, every corner of the city in New…
A trip to almost any beach this summer shows that clunky beach umbrellas have made way for the lighter, less-likely-to-fly-way sunshade. An Israeli company founded by a former skydiver takes credit for pioneering the product, variations of which dot the sands from Eilat to Malibu. In 2011 Ilan Elmaleh launched the Otentik sunshade, a play…
(JTA) — Lydia Jacoby, the 17-year-old swimmer from Seward, Alaska, surprised many when she came from behind to win the 100m breaststroke at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday night. Even Jacoby herself couldn’t believe it: Her jaw dropped when she removed her goggles and saw her time of 1 minute, 4 seconds. Jacoby’s underdog status,…
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