(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
This article originally appeared on Haaretz and was reprinted here with permission. With a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine looming, a briefing held Sunday by top officials in the Israeli government and Jewish organizations discussed the level of threat to Jewish communities in Ukraine and the possibility that Israel will facilitate an evacuation program. The…
(JTA) – Pamela Adlon describes learning that her great-great-grandfather was a famous rabbi as “mind blowing” in an upcoming episode of the celebrity genealogy show “Finding Your Roots.” In an exclusive clip from Tuesday night’s episode that is debuting on the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, host Henry Louis Gates Jr. asks Adlon to read the translation…
(JTA) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. compared what he sees as threats to human life from 5G, vaccine passports, and “low-orbit satellites” to the threat the Nazis posed to Jews during the Holocaust. “Even in Hitler’s Germany, you could cross the Alps into Switzerland, you can hide in the attic like Anne Frank did…Today the…
(JTA) — Cecile Klein, an energetic supercentenarian with ties to Montreal’s Jewish community and institutions, spent seven months as Canada’s oldest person, before passing away on Jan. 13. An obituary for Klein published in the Canadian Jewish News notes that in addition to living through two pandemics and two world wars, and working for her…
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Mordechai Lightstone and his wife, Chana, are renovating their house in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights — removing walls in the living room, dining room and hallway — so they’ll have plenty of space for guests when they are able to start hosting visitors again. Lightstone, 37 —…
(JTA) — Two Austrian cities are removing statues created by a prominent artist after the artist shared a picture of the Israeli flag with the star of David made up of syringes, the latest in a series of protests against pandemic rules to feature antisemitic tropes. Manfred Kielnhofer is a sculptor whose “Guardian of Time”…
