(JTA) — The Golden Globes won’t be televised, but there will be Jewish honorees — among them two directors at different stages of their directing careers. After numerous controversies have rattled the Hollywood Foreign Press Association — from a “culture of corruption” to not a single Black member — NBC decided it will not be…
A motion to consider divesting from Ben & Jerry’s parent company Unilever has been introduced in Los Angeles City Council, a response to the ice cream maker’s decision to end sales in Israeli settlements. Proposed by two Jewish council members on Dec. 8, the motion would instruct the city’s two major pension funds, the Los…
(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met with Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the Crown Prince and leader of the United Arab Emirates Monday, marking the first time an Israeli prime minister has visited the country over a year after the countries signed the Abraham Accords and began diplomatic relations. The trip was announced by…
(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and his minister of religious affairs have halted a plan to create a permanent egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall due to fears of incitement by right-wing Israelis opposed to the deal and violence between them and proponents of the egalitarian space. The news comes just days…
(JTA) — Max Miller, a 32-year-old former Trump aide running for a congressional seat in Ohio, is finally getting the buzz of media coverage that candidates crave in under-the-radar district races. It’s just not exactly the type of press he would like. Miller, the scion of two well-known Cleveland Jewish families, is running for a…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A bill that would create an Islamophobia monitor in much the same cast as the State Department’s antisemitism monitor cleared its first hurdle on Friday, after a House committee debate about antisemitism. The bill, whose lead sponsors were Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., one of three Muslims in Congress, and Rep. Jan Schakowsky,…
The cream-cheese crisis that has deprived bagel eaters and cheesecake bakers during the past week was quickly chalked up to supply-chain issues that have dogged manufacturers across industries. Turns out a cyberattack is also partly to blame for the schmear shortage. One of the country’s largest producers of cream cheese, Schreiber Foods of Wisconsin, was…
(JTA) — In recent years, Yiddish theater has enjoyed a remarkable resurgence, with Yiddish-language performances wowing audiences in New York, online and, last month, Stockholm. But perhaps its biggest audience yet came on Thursday night, when “Jeopardy!” devoted an entire category to it. The iconic quiz show is seen by an estimated 8.7 million people…
This article originally appeared in Haaretz and was republished here with permission. Former U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly criticized Benjamin Netanyahu over the Israeli leader’s congratulations to President Joe Biden after his election, according to an interview published Friday by the Hebrew daily Yedioth Ahronoth. “The first person that congratulated [Biden] was Bibi Netanyahu,”…
(JTA) — Speaking about the state of Israel’s government in an interview with Galatz, the Israel Defense Forces’ radio station, prominent Israeli author David Grossman suggested Israel’s occupation had turned into an “apartheid” regime. “Maybe it should no longer be called an ‘occupation,’ but there are much harsher names, like ‘apartheid,’ for example,” he said…
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Throughout her childhood, filmmaker Bex Schwartz heard stories about Bernstein on Essex, a kosher Chinese eatery on the Lower East Side. “The way my family talked about it, I thought that whatever the ‘Bernstein on Essex Street’ is — [it] was just this glowing utopia in…
