(JTA) — David Brog, who leads the Maccabee Task Force, a group that cultivates pro-Israel students on campus, and a longtime protege of the Adelsons, the Las Vegas-based Republican Jewish kingmaker couple, is running for Congress in Nevada. The late Sheldon Adelson and his widow Miriam launched the Maccabee Task Force in 2015. Before entering…
(JTA) — The Montreal Holocaust Museum, which first opened its doors in 1979, will move into a new $80 million site in the city’s historic Jewish quarter in Plateau Mont-Royal by 2025. Lined with hip eateries and indie bookstores and bordered by the city’s Gay Village to the south and Little Italy to the north,…
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — The Crown Heights riots, which roiled the Brooklyn neighborhood over four days in 1991, were some of the most thoroughly documented events in New York City history: Covered in real time by local, national and global media, the violence was recounted by witnesses in numerous civil…
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Photographer Emile Bocian grew up the son of Polish Jewish immigrants in New York. But when he died in 1990 at 78, he left an unlikely legacy as a chronicler of Manhattan’s bustling Chinatown. A photographer by hobby, if not vocation, Bocian took some 80,000 to…
(JTA) — It seemed a slam dunk: The popular conservative cause of banning “critical race theory” in schools, being taken up for a vote in one of the country’s most lopsidedly conservative legislatures. Then a Democrat, one of just seven in the 60-member Wyoming legislature, stood up Thursday and said he could not support the…
(JTA) – The Jewish mayoral candidate in Louisville, Kentucky, who was the target of a shooting Monday said the release of the alleged gunman has left him and his family “traumatized again.” “Our criminal justice system is clearly broken. It is nearly impossible to believe that someone can attempt murder on Monday and walk out…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Jewish Federations of North America has removed advocacy for gun control, voting rights and LGBTQ protections from a key priorities document, but a top official says the change does not diminish the organization’s commitment to the issues. In comparison to recent years, the 2022 “Jewish Federations Public Priorities” document, sent on…
Just one day before the highly anticipated Season 4 premiere of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” Amazon announced Thursday that the series about a mid-century Jewish comedian has been renewed for a fifth and final season. Production of season five of the comedy series, created by Amy Sherman-Palladino and exec produced by her husband Dan Palladino,…
(JTA) — Members of Lev Tahor, the Hasidic group that is often described as a cult and has been chased across continents in the wake of a child abduction scandal, were sighted in a remote town in Bosnia and Herzegovina last month and in North Macedonia this month, as they bounce around the Balkans in…
(JTA) — Elon Musk, the Tesla CEO, likened Justin Trudeau to Adolf Hitler for the Canadian prime minister’s decision to go after those financing the trucker protest and added that Trudeau was less competent than the Nazi, leading to criticism from Jewish groups. On Thursday, Musk replied to a tweet reporting that Canadian authorities have…
This story was updated on Feb. 18. Miriam had been open for less than a month before someone sprayed it with antisemitic graffiti. On Thursday morning, the staff found “f— Jews” spray painted at least three times on the perimeter of the Upper West Side restaurant’s outdoor dining area. It was “sad to see,” said…
