(JTA) — Israel’s improbable quest for an Olympic medal in baseball ended Tuesday after the team featuring several former Major League ballplayers fell in a close match to the Dominican Republic. Israel led 6-5 going into the ninth inning, but a home run followed by a string of singles propelled the Dominican Republic to a…
KEY WEST, Fla. (JTA) — On any given afternoon, hundreds of visitors here patiently line up for selfies next to a brightly painted, 12-foot-high concrete buoy marking the southernmost point in the continental United States. Just behind this landmark, a less obvious monument overlooks the Atlantic Ocean for a few days a year: a menorah…
(JTA) — The chairman of the Oklahoma Republican party is the latest Republican figure to liken coronavirus restrictions to the Nazi period. John Bennett on Friday posted on the party’s Facebook page a photo of a yellow star labeled “Unvaccinated.” He listed purported restrictions on the unvaccinated, including not being able to fly or “enter…
(JTA) — The British government has approved a contested plan for a prominent Holocaust memorial center outside Parliament in London. Friday’s decision by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government means that the ambitious project has cleared its final major bureaucratic hurdle about five years after its inception. The plans include 23 large bronze…
(JTA) — Over the last year, Jewish college students took it upon themselves to combat antisemitism at their schools. Now, two major Jewish organizations are working together to play a stronger role in fighting antisemitism on campus. Some of the student activists documented incidences of antisemitism at colleges nationwide, often submitted anonymously, while others have…
(JTA) — Pop star Billie Eilish provoked a wave of angry criticism on social media after posting a short video online promoting her new album to Israeli fans. “Hi Israel, this is Billie Eilish, and I’m so excited that my new album, ‘Happier Than Ever,’ is out now,” she says in a clip posted to…
(JTA) — Carl Levin, the Jewish Michigander whose avuncularity masked the skills of a fierce inquisitor during his 36 years in the Senate, has died at 87. The Levin Center at Wayne State University Law School announced Levin’s passing on Thursday. It did not give a date or cause of death. Levin was diagnosed with…
President Biden plans to nominate Deborah Lipstadt as the State Department’s special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism on Friday, sources familiar with the decision have confirmed. Lipstadt is a preeminent historian of the Holocaust who teaches at Emory University in Atlanta and was the protagonist of the 2016 film “Denial,” about her successful defeat…
Adrienne Katz wished she could have been in Tokyo, watching her son, American-born pitcher Alex Katz, pitch for Team Israel against South Korea — an experience COVID restrictions denied her. But the next best thing was to gather with other fans at the Jewish National Fund on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, where —…
In an unsurprising New York Times guest essay, the founders of Ben and Jerry’s wrote that they “unequivocally support the decision of the company to end business in the occupied territories.” But in a surprising twist, the article byline reveals that Ben Cohen is no Benjamin or Benyamin, but in fact a… Bennett. Bennett, as…
(JTA) — The Jewish founders of Ben & Jerry’s defended the ice cream company’s boycott of Israel’s West Bank settlements in an op-ed in the The New York Times. Bennett Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, who sold the company decades ago and maintain no control over its operations, wrote in the op-ed Wednesday that they…
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