If you weren’t already interested in learning Yiddish, Duolingo may have given you another reason, — free bagels! That’s right, in honor of the launch of a new Yiddish course on the popular language-learning platform, Duolingo is offering to pay for your bagel order at a handful of stores around the country when the course…
(JTA) — PBS has decided to postpone airing the documentary “Til Kingdom Come,” which examines the close relationship between American evangelicals and Israel, in the light of accusations that the film misleadingly spliced together two separate parts of a speech by former President Donald Trump. The film, which was directed by the Russian-Israeli documentary filmmaker…
Israel’s national baseball team will be training in New York state ahead of the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics this summer, Israel’s Association of Baseball announced. The team is partnering with the New York Boulders, a Frontier League team who play in Rockland County, New York. “The Boulders have graciously welcomed Team Israel to make use of…
President Joe Biden made an appearance at the White House Passover celebration on Thursday, telling the nearly 10,000 virtual attendees one way in which this year’s seder is different from all others: “Not only ‘next year in Jerusalem,’ but ‘next year in person!’” “As we seek to rebuild from a time of struggle and loss,…
(JTA) — There’s never been a great, definitive American movie about a bar mitzvah. And after “Donny’s Bar Mitzvah,” a new movie that arrived this week on Amazon Prime and iTunes, there still hasn’t been. The film, directed by Jonathan Kaufman (referred to in the media notes as “Jonny Comebacks”), is an indie comedy set…
(JTA) — Steven Spielberg is donating his Genesis Prize earnings to Jewish and non-Jewish groups working to promote racial and economic justice. The prize’s foundation on Thursday announced that the film director would double the $1 million prize with his own money and split it among 10 organizations, including Black Voters Matter and the Jews…
More than 525 rabbis have signed a letter criticizing a recent series of scholarly conversations involving Steven M. Cohen, the sociologist who was shunned by much of the academy and Jewish world after allegations emerged three years ago that he had sexually harassed and assaulted female colleagues for decades. “As Jewish clergy, we know that…
Cory and Felicia Konold, Jewish siblings who were arrested for their participation in the Jan. 6 riots on the Capitol, have petitioned a federal court to let them celebrate Passover at the home of their grandparents in Tucson, Arizona. According to a court filing, a condition of their release bars contact “directly or indirectly” with…
The head football coach of a Boston-area high school team has been fired after an investigation found that varsity players for used antisemitic language in a game earlier this month. Duxbury, Massachusetts Superintendent John Antonucci announced Wednesday that Duxbury High School fired coach Dave Maimaron and cancelled varsity and junior games through Monday, according to…
The Boulder Jewish community is coming together to grieve the 10 lives lost in the devastating mass shooting that took place in a Boulder supermarket on Monday. The Boulder JCC will host “Coming Together as a Community ,” a virtual gathering of synagogues, Haver (Boulder’s Rabbinic Council), and the Boulder JCC to mourn the victims…
(JTA) — Preliminary exit polls from Israel’s election show Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a good chance of being narrowly reelected. Israeli exit polls, however, have historically been unreliable, and this year they don’t account for a significant percentage of votes cast. Due to COVID, the final results might not be published until Monday. Especially…
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