This article was updated March 9 at 8:20 EST. An NBA player blurted out an antisemitic slur during a live-stream of a first-person shooter video game on Monday, creating a jarring new category in the canon of professional athletes who have made antisemitic remarks in the past year. Meyers Leonard, a nine-year pro who plays…
(JTA) — In the first chapter of Rabbi Shais Rishon’s new Torah commentary, the voices of ancient rabbis mingle with contemporary poets and, at one point, with “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson. It’s all part of Rishon’s attempt at writing a text “that is firmly traditional/Orthodox, but with a modern and non-myopic lens…
Eric Adams, one of the leading candidates running to be mayor of New York City toured a Brooklyn yeshiva on Monday that had been on a list of schools subject to investigation over adequate secular education standards and came away with a positive impression. ”I was really impressed by what I saw,” Adams told the…
New York City doesn’t own the copyright to delicious bagels. That’s the main takeaway from Food and Wine’s round up of the top 50 bagel shops across the country. Of course the top spot still goes to a NYC favorite, the Upper West Side’s Absolute Bagels. It’s a well-deserved win; the cash only joint still…
(JTA) — Yeshiva University’s men’s basketball team is riding a 35-game winning streak, picking up from last season when the Maccabees reached the Sweet 16 of the NCAA’s Division III national tournament before the pandemic shut down the rest of the event. The unbeaten streak is the third longest in Division III men’s basketball history,…
(J. the Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — All it took was an email for a 63-year-old wound to start to heal. In December, Cantor Stephen Saxon tuned into KQED’s “Political Breakdown” and heard an interview with LGBTQ activist, politician and comedian Tom Ammiano. The 79-year-old former California Assembly member and San Francisco…
(JTA) — A founder of a Jewish patrol group in Brooklyn is facing federal sexual misconduct charges stemming from a 2017 case in which he was charged with the statutory rape of a 15-year-old girl. Jacob Daskal, 62, was arrested and charged Thursday with inciting a minor to engage in illicit sexual activity and transporting…
In the weeks after last fall’s presidential election, the heads of the Jewish Democratic Council of America and the Republican Jewish Coalition both filled social-media platforms and email inboxes with seemingly contradictory declarations of victory. Halie Soifer, chief executive of the Democratic council, touted an exit poll conducted by J Street that showed Jewish voters…
(JTA) — The political advocacy group Dallas Jewish Conservatives is celebrating Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s lifting of his statewide mask mandate by holding a mask-burning party. The outdoor event, advertised online as “The Official Texas is Now Open Party! #BurnThatMask,” is scheduled to be held March 10, the day that Abbott’s decision goes into…
(JTA) — NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley is looking forward to his daughter’s wedding to a Jewish entrepreneur. He’s just a little worried about the hora. “I’ve been really working out hard because apparently they’ve got to pick me up in a chair,” Barkley told Jimmy Kimmel on his talk show Tuesday night about…
(JTA) — The Globe and Mail, a leading Canadian newspaper, has taken down an opinion piece comparing COVID-19 lockdowns to Anne Frank’s experience as a child in hiding during the Holocaust. The piece was originally titled “I’m channeling Anne Frank’s spirit in lockdown,” and was published Wednesday by a contributing writer. The title was later…
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