(JTA) — Items from the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s library are being sold at online auction this week and include a range of works from her law school textbooks to copies of celebrity memoirs and books by her fellow Supreme Court justices. The auction, which is being conducted by Bonham’s and ends…
(JTA) —The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston will return a 17th-century painting in its collection to the heirs of a Jewish collector to whom the painting was lost during the Holocaust. The 1646 painting, “View of Beverwijk” by Salomon van Ruysdael, will be auctioned in April and is expected to sell for between $500,000…
SARASOTA, Fla. (JTA) — Flyers blaming Jews for COVID-19 were found in multiple cities in Florida and in San Francisco this weekend, less than two months after similar ones were found in at least eight states nationwide. The Mayor of Miami Beach, Dan Gelber, who is Jewish, saw some of the flyers Sunday morning while…
(JTA) – There’s a good chance that when you logged on to Twitter today, you were met with tweets showing off grids of yellow, green and black squares. There’s also a good chance that you posted a similar grid. Many of the more than 2 million people who have taken to playing the Wordle word…
(JTA) — Seven American Jewish organizations released an open letter calling on Israel’s top leaders to take “unequivocal action” to stop “ongoing terrorism and political violence committed by Jewish Israeli extremists in the West Bank against Palestinians, Israeli civilians, and IDF soldiers.” “We urge the entire Israeli government to unite in strong condemnation against these…
(JTA) – Jane Yolen, the acclaimed and prolific children’s book author whose oeuvre of more than 400 books includes the bestselling Holocaust time-travel novel “The Devil’s Arithmetic,” was honored for her writing career by the Association of Jewish Libraries. Yolen received the Body-of-Work award from this year’s Sydney Taylor Book Awards, which recognize excellence in…
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Calling their faculty union “anti-Semitic, anti-Jewish, and anti-Israel,” six professors at the City University of New York have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit challenging what they call the union’s “monopoly” power to represent them. The suit stems from a June 2021 resolution from the union,…
(JTA) – Among the antiquities that billionaire philanthropist Michael Steinhardt is accused of trading illegally is a 2,200-year-old artifact that was likely looted from a cave complex regularly excavated by young Jews traveling to Israel on a program that Steinhardt funds. The ties among the Heliodorus Stele, Birthright Israel and Steinhardt illuminate just how complicated…
(JTA) — When Josh Groban’s cover of the 1965 song “The Impossible Dream” blares from the loudspeakers at Beijing’s Capital Indoor Stadium on Feb. 18, its lyrics will ring true for the Winter Olympian figure skaters Hailey Kops and Evgeni Krasnopolsky. That’s because as recently as June 8, when she returned to the United States…
(JTA) — Israel’s cabinet approved a plan to plant 450,000 trees in the country’s cities to mitigate the effects of climate change by offering more shade and cooler temperatures. The plan, which is predicted to cost about 2.25 billion shekels, or $716 million, will be carried out between now and 2040. The goal of the…
The presidential candidate has a troubling history of comparing vaccine and mask mandates to the Shoah
