(JTA) — The ice menorah of Tomsk has become something of a Hanukkah tradition in that Russian city in Siberia, situated about 2,000 miles east of Moscow. At 10 feet tall and featuring LED lights incorporated into the branches, it shines in the yard of the city’s Chabad synagogue and is seen as a Jewish…
(JTA) — Jacob Kamaras got the San Diego Jewish World for an absolute steal — $1, to be exact. The journalist and public relations executive bought the publication for that ceremonial price from its previous owner-publisher, Don Harrison, who founded the online outlet in 2009 and was looking to step down from day-to-day operations; Harrison…
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — The New York Police Department Hate Crimes unit is investigating three separate attacks against two Jewish children and a teenager in the Clinton Hill neighborhood in Brooklyn. Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying the suspects, who they have narrowed down to the same…
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Hundreds gathered in Times Square Monday to celebrate the second night of Hanukkah, with live music, speeches and, of course, a public menorah lighting. But it wasn’t just about feel-good holiday cheer: The event was part of the “Shine a Light on Antisemitism” campaign, which aims…
(JTA) — In a small town in Poland, a local ice cream maker is serving up an unusual side dish: a gallery of items once owned by local Jews, including the family that lived in the building before the Holocaust. Jozef Gucwa opened a makeshift museum adjacent to his ice cream parlor in Bobowa, a…
(JTA) — Fox News host Lara Logan compared Anthony Fauci, the top official handling the U.S. coronavirus response, to Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who conducted experiments on inmates at the Auschwitz death camp. Logan was speaking on “Fox News Primetime” on Monday about the prospect of new restrictive measures in the wake of the…
(JTA) — Boris Johnson wasn’t trying to be funny when he broke the menorah he had received mere seconds before, but it certainly gave Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid a laugh. At an event in London Monday, Johnson sent pieces of a menorah he received as a gift flying in all directions after he hoisted…
(JTA) — Stephen Colbert gave Jewish viewers of the Late Show a special Hanukkah gift Monday night: a bit about the glut of Christmas movies and the lack of Hanukkah films. Noting the combined 76 Christmas movies to be released by Lifetime and Hallmark this year, Colbert lamented that there were hardly any Hanukkah-themed movies….
As the Democratic Socialists of America is urged to expel U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman over his recent visit to Israel, a diverse group of Jewish leaders in his district is applauding him for making the trip, which they called “politically courageous.” The group of rabbis and activists from the Bronx and Westchester County planned to…
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — More than two decades after publication of allegations that Rabbi Baruch Lanner abused teens in his charge for more than 30 years, four of his victims are seeking their day in court. The four women, now middle aged and older, filed a lawsuit today with the…
(JTA) — One of television’s most notorious cartoon antisemites is now an Orthodox rabbi. Eric Cartman, the egomaniacal, hate speech-spouting grade schooler on Comedy Central’s long-running adult animated series “South Park,” has had a change of heart in a new hour-long special of the show, which is set 40 years in the future. In “South…
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