New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio appointed longtime Brooklyn Heights resident Henry Gutman as the city’s new commissioner for the Department of Transportation on Wednesday. Gutman, who is known as Hank, was raised in New Jersey, and has lived since 1975 in Brooklyn Heights, where he and his wife, Karoly, are longtime members of…
NEW YORK (JTA) — On a frosty Tuesday in January, Mark Becker strode into Max and Mina’s ice cream shop holding a netted green bag filled with fresh oranges. “Maybe he’s making orange ice cream,” his brother Bruce said from behind the counter. Max and Mina’s flavors tend to change with the seasons, the Jewish…
(JTA) — Here’s a football bet you probably could’ve gotten long odds on before the season started: each Super Bowl team having a Jewish offensive lineman. Both are standout players, but only one — Ali Marpet, a sixth-year pro for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers — is expected to suit up for the NFL championship game…
(JTA) — A State Department official said the Biden administration embraces a definition of anti-Semitism that has sparked controversy because it includes some forms of harsh criticism of Israel. ‘We must educate ourselves and our communities to recognize anti-Semitism in its many forms so that we can call hate by its proper name and take…
(JTA) — Israel is sending 5,000 coronavirus vaccines to the Palestinian areas, earning praise from some U.S. lawmakers who had urged the country to extend its successful vaccination program to the West Bank and Gaza Strip. “In accordance with the recommendation of the Defense Minister and the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, the…
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Putting a small-town Jewish baker on the ticket was supposed to change the public image of the Netherlands’ Party of Unity — but not like this. Run by Islamic fundamentalists, the tiny party has had little impact at the ballot box since it launched in 2014. But propelled by the inflammatory comments…
Former President Donald Trump announced on Sunday a new team of lawyers that will represent him in the Senate impeachment trial next week after five attorneys on the legal team quit. Among them is David Schoen, a modern Orthodox Jew from Atlanta, Georgia. Schoen, an expert in federal criminal defense work, is a regular guest…
(JTA) — A man who died in December reportedly left a significant gift for the French town that shielded his family and thousands of others from the Nazis during World War II. Eric Schwam, who died at 90 on Christmas Day, willed his estate to Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, the mountain town where his Jewish family hid…
(JTA) — A prestigious university in Moscow said it would fire a professor who denied the Holocaust on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Vladimir Matveyev, a lecturer on international relations, told teachers from the St. Petersburg region on Thursday that “no gas chambers were found to kill people in concentration camps,” “the gas was used by…
(JTA) — The remains of the synagogue in Belarus where the family of painter Marc Chagall used to pray are up for sale to anyone willing to restore the building. The municipality of Vitebsk is seeking a nominal fee only for the dilapidated exterior walls of what used to be the Great Lubavitch Synagogue, according…
(JTA) — Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski, the scion of multiple Hasidic dynasties, author of more than 60 books, and a physician who became a leading authority on drug treatment and addiction, has died. Twerski was 90 and had been battling COVID-19 in Israel, according to Yeshiva World News. Born in Milwaukee into a family…
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