Four men who were involved in the kidnapping and murder of Jewish American journalist Daniel Pearl are set to be released by Pakistani authorities. The news comes just days before the nineteenth anniversary of the event. Their release comes after a court in Pakistan’s Sindh province vacated the men’s murder convictions last year for their…
A crocheted version of Senator Bernie Sanders’ now-famous mittens-and-mask pose on Inauguration Day sold for more than $20,000 after only two days of bidding on ebay. The doll was initially posted by its creator, Tobey King, with a starting bid of 99 cents, but 167 bids later it skyrocketed to $20,300. Crochet Bernie, this is…
(JTA) — The mayor of Antwerp, a city in Belgium where about 15,000 haredi Orthodox Jews live, warned that their failure to comply with COVID-19 measures has triggered anti-Semitism — and it could turn into a wave. “In the Jewish community, not everyone realizes this, they have their own logic, but the backlash of public…
It’s official: the Kansas City Chiefs will be playing the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 55th Super Bowl in Florida. While there won’t be many Jews on the field, there will be at least one prominent Jewish family keeping a close eye from the stands – the Glazer family who have owned the Buccaneers since…
A group of New York City mayoral candidates, including Comptroller Scott Stringer and entrepreneur Andrew Yang, are boycotting a candidate forum hosted by the Brooklyn Democratic County Committee on Sunday to protest their handling of the publishing of racist and anti-Palestinian posts by one of their officials. In since-deleted tweets, first reported by The Brooklyn…
Though Amar’e Stoudemire is now part of the coaching staff of the Brooklyn Nets, you won’t see him on the sidelines at the team’s Friday night or Saturday games. That’s because the NBA team has given the 38-year-old Stoudemire, a recent convert to Judaism, time off from Friday night to Saturday night so that he…
(JTA) — In this Tuesday’s episode of the celebrity genealogy show “Finding Your Roots,” pioneering journalist Nina Totenberg and TV personality Andy Cohen learn about the deep Jewish roots of their family trees. In this exclusive clip from Totenberg’s segment, she reacts to learning how one of her grandmothers escaped to the United States during…
(JTA) — The final book published by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks before he died in November is the Jewish Book Council’s top book for 2020. “Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times,” published in the United States in September, was awarded the Everett Family Foundation Book of the Year when the Jewish Book Council announced…
(JTA) — HBO Max will stream a six-episode French-Israeli psychological thriller series titled “Possessions” on Thursday, the latest in HBO’s long line of Israel-affiliated offerings. “Possessions,” filmed in French, Hebrew and English, involves a young French ex-pat woman living in Israel who is accused of murdering her husband on her wedding night. A French diplomat…
(JTA) — Israel continues to far outpace the entire world in its COVID-19 vaccine rollout. This weekend the country’s health ministry announced that teenagers between the ages of 16 and 18 are now eligible for the vaccine. In all, Israel has vaccinated about 2.5 million out of its approximately 9 million citizens since beginning its…
(JTA) — When Donald Trump became president of the United States in 2017, Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz felt he could no longer say the standard prayer for the United States government that is recited in most Modern Orthodox congregations. Yanklowitz, who is president and dean of the Valley Beit Midrash in Phoenix, was far from the…
שבֿע צוקער פֿירט דעם שמועס מיט וויווי לאַקס און ביידע לייענען פֿאָר עטלעכע פֿעליעטאָנען פֿון יענע צײַטן.
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