(JTA) — The Novak Djokovic COVID scandal may be stealing the headlines ahead of the Australian Open, which starts next week, but there are several Jewish players looking to win big at the year’s first Grand Slam. Here they are: Men’s singles tournament **Does Diego have a path to victory? ** Diego Schwartzman, seeded no….
An 11-hour standoff at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, ended late Saturday night with the rabbi and other hostages released safely and the suspect dead, police and political officials said. The suspect, a 44-year-old British national named Malik Faisal Akram, disrupted Shabbat-morning services as they were being livestreamed on Facebook and held its rabbi and…
A museum near Tel Aviv, which first opened nearly 35 years ago, has ceased operations after failing to reach an agreement with 47 artists who accused the museum — and the city — of censorship, and demanded that their work be removed. The artists had asked The Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art to reverse…
(JTA) — Over the past several decades, the Terezín concentration camp has come to be synonymous with the music of the Holocaust because of the number of performers who were imprisoned there. Now, in the latest production associated with a foundation devoted to preserving the camp’s legacy, a new book reveals how one prominent musician…
HAIFA, Israel (JTA) — Each year on Tu Bishvat, the Jewish holiday celebrating trees and plants, Lior Weitz and his wife take their two daughters to plant saplings of pine — the tree that more than any other symbolizes Israel’s historic forestation project. They join thousands of families at one of the annual planting ceremonies…
(JTA) — As she sought an image to illustrate how her synagogue has fared recently, during the worst case counts of the COVID-19 pandemic, Rabbi Heidi Hoover landed on a line from a famous movie. “I quoted ‘The Godfather’ in one my newsletters: ‘Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in,’”…
(JTA) — Paul Pfeiffer’s bar mitzvah made Jewish television history when “The Wonder Years” devoted an episode to it in 1989. Pfeiffer, played by a Jewish actor named Josh Saviano, was the best friend of the show’s main character, Kevin Arnold, also played by a Jewish actor — Fred Savage — but who was not…
A professor at Emerson College in Boston is being investigated after performing a Nazi salute in class last semester. The accused professor, Brian McNeil, told The Berkeley Beacon, Emerson’s student newspaper, that his behavior was meant to parody Nazis, but also acknowledged how his actions could have been “perceived the wrong way.” The incident, which…
If the effort succeeds, it would be the second New York Jewish museum to unionize during the pandemic
A Neo-Nazi leader who led a multi-state plot to intimidate journalists and others who worked to expose antisemitic activity has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison. A federal jury convicted Kaleb Cole, a leader of Atomwaffen Division based in Washington state, on one count of interfering with freedom of religion, three counts of…
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — The first person in his family born in America, Edward Ilyasov spent his childhood in Hillcrest, Queens, watching cooking shows and dreaming of traveling the world. Even as a young boy, Ilyasov, 29, felt he was destined to do something outside of the life path set for him…
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