(JTA) — BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — Bernardo Javier “Baruj” Plavnick, 69, the Argentine rabbi who opened his Buenos Aires synagogue for use as a vaccination center, died of COVID-19 on May 20. Pardes, the community founded by Plavnick in 1992, announced in February that it was establishing a vaccination center inside the synagogue. Some…
(JTA) — It’s been seven decades since the New York Rangers had a star Jewish defenseman. This season they had the best defenseman in the National Hockey League, Jewish or otherwise. Adam Fox, a native of New York’s suburban Long Island and a longtime Rangers fan, was named the winner of the James Norris Memorial…
Normally, Passover and baseball’s only crossover occurs when Opening Day falls on the first night’s seder. But when a decades-long dream is fulfilled, it can summon feelings of the Jews leaving Egypt. “Dayenu!” said Gwen Goldman, 70, of her experience working as the Yankee’s bat girl in their game against the Los Angeles Angels this…
Rep. Ilhan Omar declined to apologize on Tuesday for comments she made earlier this month listing the United States and Israel alongside Hamas and the Taliban as entities that needed to be held accountable for what she called “unthinkable atrocities.” Asked by Jake Tapper of CNN whether she regretted the comments, Omar said: “I don’t.”…
A man whom authorities say left behind a notebook filled with antisemitic and racist entries shot two Black people dead on a neighborhood street in a suburb of Boston. Nathan Allen, 28, crashed a stolen box truck into a small house on Saturday, exited the vehicle, and opened fire on David Green, 58, and Ramona…
Planning a trip to Israel? The trans-Atlantic flight that comes to mind is often memorable for the wrong reasons — seats packed like sardines, the below-average food and an inevitable crick in your neck from dozing off in an uncomfortable position. La Compagnie, which flies aircrafts where all the seats are business class, is set…
Mossi Raz, a member of the Knesset representing the leftist Meretz Party, is frustrated as part of a new Israeli government that, in his view, won’t make progress in the coming years towards ending the occupation of the West Bank and solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “There is no agreement about the policy vis-à-vis the most…
(JTA) — Two major Israeli haredi Orthodox rabbis said everyone aged 12 and over should be vaccinated against the coronavirus, according to The Jerusalem Post. Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, the influential leader known as the “prince of Torah,” and Rabbi Gershon Edelstein approved the announcement in a message printed by Kanievsky’s personal physician, Meshulam Hart, in…
(JTA) — New Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, meeting with his American counterpart Antony Blinken for the first time, said his government wants to mend relations between Israel and the Democratic Party. “In the past few years, mistakes were made,” Lapid said, referring to the long tenure of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose divisive…
(JTA) — The foundation stone has been laid for a “City of Torah” in Mexico, the first village in Latin America to be comprised almost exclusively of haredi Orthodox Jews. The village, under construction near Ixtapan de la Sal, a small town about 75 miles southwest of Mexico City, will begin with 40 houses and…
(JTA) — A 92-year-old Jewish woman who fled her native Austria as a child to escape the Nazis, and later befriended the famed diarist Anne Frank, has reclaimed her Austrian citizenship. Eva Schloss, whose mother was the second wife of Otto Frank, Anne’s father, received papers identifying her as an Austrian citizen on Monday at…
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