(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…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared on “Fox & Friends” on Thursday morning — occupying the slot once reserved for former President Donald Trump — and showed some unease when talking about the current occupant of the White House, President Joe Biden. “What’s your relationship like with President Biden? He’s been in office for 44…
(Jewish Exponent via JTA) — Sally Hoberman grew up speaking Yiddish with her grandparents, who emigrated from the Pale of Settlement, and remained fluent throughout her life. She was raised by her father and grandparents in West Philadelphia after her mother died when she was young. She graduated from Overbrook High School in 1947 and…
How do humans react in the face of chaos? A cynic might tell you that they give in to their baser instincts, defaulting to looting and crime. That is the scenario often portrayed in apocalypse and disaster movies. However, a new study by Israeli researchers says otherwise. Natural disasters don’t lead to an increase in…
Wendy Sherman, President Joe Biden’s nominee for deputy Secretary of State, told members of the Senate on Wednesday that the administration is “clear-eyed” about its goals in an attempt to re-join the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. “I would note that 2021 is not 2015, when the deal was agreed; nor 2016, when it was…
(JTA) — Amazon has drawn some Fuhrer fury — over a logo featuring a cardboard box and a piece of tape. The ecommerce giant released a new logo for its smartphone app on Monday after some users compared the former logo to Hitler’s mustache. The former logo featured a piece of tape with ragged edges…
(JTA) — The stories of Israeli champion judoka Sagi Muki and his friend Saeid Mollaei, who fled his native Iran after refusing an order not to fight Muki in international competition, are being turned into a TV series. The project is being jointly produced by MGM/UA Television and Israel’s Tadmor Entertainment, with help from the…
(JTA) — Season 3 of the hit haredi Orthodox drama series “Shtisel” will debut on Netflix on March 25, Israel’s Yes Studios announced Tuesday. The first two seasons of the show, which follows members of an Orthodox family in Israel, became popular with audiences around the globe, Jewish and non-Jewish, after being distributed by Netflix….
The company that was hired to set up the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida last weekend has taken full responsibility for the design of the stage that resembled a Nazi insignia. In an exclusive statement to the Forward on Tuesday evening, Design Foundry, a stage design firm based in Hyattsville,…
Susan Lerner, the executive director of Common Cause New York, apologized in an exclusive statement to the Forward for offensive remarks she made against the Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn. In a February interview with the Gothamist, a local New York website, Lerner characterized the Orthodox community as an ‘extremist bloc.’ Her comments were widely…
