This article originally appeared on Haaretz and was reprinted here with permission. The Israeli couple arrested in Turkey last week for suspected espionage have been released early Thursday and returned to Israel. Natalie and Mordi Oknin were arrested last week after photographing Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul, which has not been used as a presidential residence…
(JTA) — In a survey among 1,054 Jewish community leaders in Europe, 23% said they were considering emigrating. The survey, which the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, or JDC, published Thursday, did not ask respondents their reasons for contemplating emigrating. Only 3% said they had made active preparations and 67% said they had not considered…
(JTA) — The men’s World Cup soccer qualifier games are underway, and the U.S. team has a shot at making the tournament that will take place next fall in Qatar. For those fans who have suppressed the memories — the U.S. men’s team failed to qualify last time around. One of the team’s six forwards…
A new pro-Israel campus group at Duke University won official recognition from the school’s student government last Wednesday. It lost it in less than a week. Duke’s student government president vetoed Students Supporting Israel’s recognition Monday after the group used its Instagram account to challenge a student who said it represented “settler colonialism.” Singling out…
ISTANBUL (JTA) — Imported Israeli TV has given Netflix several big hits in recent years, largely focused on the travails of Orthodox Ashkenazi Jews. The latest breakout show about a Jewish community is very different. “The Club” is a Turkish drama about a Sephardic family in 1950s Istanbul, and it’s both reshaping what representation feels…
STOCKHOLM (JTA) — Actors in this weekend’s production of “Waiting for Godot” at the Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm performed neither in the classic play’s original English nor in Swedish translation. Rather, they were speaking Yiddish, a language spoken by few Swedes but increasingly cherished by many. The Yiddish version of Samuel Beckett’s classic absurdist…
BUCHAREST, Romania (JTA) — The Romanian Senate has adopted a law that makes it mandatory for all high schools and vocational schools in the country to teach a specific subject on the history of the Holocaust and the Jewish people. The law that passed on Monday stipulates that the course will be taught starting in…
This article originally appeared on Haaretz and was reprinted here with permission. Israeli soldiers pulled Palestinian children out of their beds in the middle of the night and photographed them illegally in the West Bank city of Hebron, a B’Tselem video shows. During night operations in the area of Hebron under Palestinian control, known as…
(JTA) — A Judaica and Jewish books store has stopped selling a series of popular children’s books after accusations of sexual misconduct surfaced against the books’ author. The announcement from Eichler’s Judaica, which is located in Borough Park, was made Tuesday evening several days after the Israeli newspaper Haaretz published an investigation into alleged sexual…
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — If you watched television in the 1970s and early 1980s, chances are you can sing a few bars of “Look for the Union Label,” a jingle sung on commercials for the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union. The infectious song was meant to prop up what was…
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) —Immortalized by pop-culture phenomena like “Dirty Dancing” and “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” New York’s Catskill Mountains were once the go-to summer destination for hundreds of thousands of Jewish New Yorkers. According to the Catskills Institute at Northeastern University, “by the 1950s a half-million people each year inhabited…
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