(JTA) –When Ed Shames described his Jewish self, he used the term “tough SOB.” Shames, the oldest surviving member of the legendary Easy Company parachute infantry regiment, could also have added “patient.” Shames, who died Dec. 3 at age 99 at his home in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1945 secured bottles of cognac designated for Hitler’s…
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — While its basketball team has been amassing a historic winning streak, Yeshiva University has been on a spree of its own, raising more than $250 over the last two years in the “quiet phase” of a fundraising campaign. Now, the flagship Modern Orthodox university has announced…
(JTA) — A small municipal holiday event turned into a big problem for Medford, Massachusetts, after a city worker included a menorah picture produced by Messianic Jews in a display about world religions. The suburb of Boston apologized for the display, which appeared during last week’s Holiday Extravaganza, a city event aimed at promoting local businesses….
(JTA) — A Palestinian man was killed by Israel’s border police after he stabbed an Orthodox Jew near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City Saturday. The stabbing was the second incident of suspected terrorism in Jerusalem in less than two weeks. A gunman associated with Hamas opened fire in the Old City on Nov….
(JTA) — After an outcry and a rebuke from the University of Toronto president, the student union at a satellite campus modified a proposed ban on kosher foods in any way affiliated with Israel, but a campus Jewish campus group said the change made matters worse. The board of directors of the University of Toronto…
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Compared to the rest of New York City, the residents of Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood have both been hit harder by COVID-19 and more reluctant to vaccinate themselves against the virus. Those statistics have prompted a group called the Jewish Orthodox Women’s Medical Association to put…
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — New York City has announced a vaccine mandate for employees at yeshivas and other private schools, prompting immediate pushback from haredi Orthodox leaders. The mandate will affect approximately 56,000 workers at New York City’s 930 private schools, which includes Jewish day schools and yeshivas. Mayor Bill…
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — In a full-page ad in Thursday’s New York Times, more than 750 New York politicians, leaders and community organizations signed a letter urging Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to ensure that paid family and medical leave remains part of the Build Back Better Act. “We thank…
(JTA) — Large Hanukkah menorahs on display in three different locales in Ukraine have been vandalized in suspected hate crimes. The latest incident occurred Tuesday in Kyiv. A menorah that was erected in the Troieshchyna district in the city’s northeast was knocked down and its lamps were smashed, Eduard Dolinksy, the director of the Ukrainian Jewish…
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — In January of 1943, Irma Lauscher, a teacher at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, smuggled a tree into the camp so that the Jewish children imprisoned by the Nazis could celebrate Tu B’Shevat in a secret ceremony. The children used their water rations to nurture…
(JTA) — Scholars do not know exactly when Jews first came to Penang, one of the smaller states in Malaysia, located on the Southeast Asian nation’s western island. The Jewish cemetery in the region’s capital city of George Town, on a street formerly called Jalan Yahudi — “Jewish Way” — gives an estimate: its first…
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