A virtual lecture by an Israeli scientist was interrupted last week by an antisemitic Zoom-bombing, or a flood of unwanted comments and sounds made by users trying to distract from the event. Sason Shaik, a chemistry professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, was giving a virtual talk for students at the University of Houston…
(JTA) — David Perdue, a one-term U.S. senator ousted by a Jewish Democrat a year ago, is now running for governor of his state as the Trump-backed candidate, and like others in that camp, he has taken to comparing aspects of contemporary life to life under Nazi rule. Perdue was decrying Twitter’s removal of former…
A New York Jewish progressive group on Wednesday will endorse candidates in two Congressional districts which include significant Jewish constituencies and where incumbents could be vulnerable. The Jewish Vote is backing Democrats Brittany Ramos DeBarros, a former army officer, for the 11th Congressional District, and Rana Abdelhamid, a community organizer, for the 12th, the group…
(JTA) — A parent of a child at a Jewish day school in North Miami Beach was arrested after saying he wanted to “burn this school to the f***|ing ground” in a group chat for parents opposed to the school’s mask policy, according to CBS Miami. Mark Polyakov’s son was a student at Scheck Hillel…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Julie Platt is a one-time banker who has become a leader in promoting Jewish education and helping to rescue Jewish camping from the ravages of the pandemic. Now, she’s about to make history as the second woman to chair one of the largest Jewish fundraising powerhouses in the United States, the Jewish…
(JTA) — Felice Jacobs and Alan Feldstein could have tied the knot in Phoenix, where they met and where his mother worked at the local Reform synagogue. Or they could have held their wedding on the Austrian Army base where Alan was stationed at the time. Instead, they chose the Eagle’s Nest, the Nazis’ former…
(JTA) — On Sue Fishkoff’s first day as editor of J. The Jewish News of Northern California in 2011, she knew she needed to do something about the archives. At the time, the newspaper’s archives — which stretch all the way back to 1900 — were still housed in bound volumes stacked carelessly in the…
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) – When he was 60 years old, Ezra Goldstein never expected to start a new career running a bookstore. But that’s exactly what happened when he took over Park Slope’s Community Bookstore, the oldest independent bookstore in Brooklyn, in 2009. The unexpected turn of events turned out…
(JTA) — When she was cast as Midge Maisel’s mother-in-law in “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” veteran actress Caroline Aaron had no idea that a series about a very particular slice of mid-20th century Jewish life would strike a chord around the world. But its popularity has gone far beyond Jews and the Jewish-adjacent. Much like…
(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett landed in Bahrain for meetings with its rulers, the second such trip to a Gulf Arab country since the launch of the Abraham Accords. Speaking Monday before his departure, Bennett framed his visit as a bulwark against increasing uncertainty worldwide, alluding to heightened tensions in the region with…
(JTA) — Whoopi Goldberg returned to her hosting chair on “The View” Monday after a two-week suspension for her much-criticized comments about the Holocaust, pledging to “keep having tough conversations.” “I listened to everything everybody had to say, and I was very grateful,” Goldberg told her viewers in a brief address at the top of…
