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Purim in Wartime: Bucharest celebration brings haunting past into present
BUCHAREST — It was fitting, somehow, that on Purim, the holiday where up is down and down is up, the only Ukrainian refugee I could find among the 200 people attending Wednesday night’s megillah reading at the Choral Temple in Romania’s capital was a Moroccan Jew from Marakkesh. Zakaria Maarif, who is 23, spent the…
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The harassers are loud. The Women of the Wall choir aims to be louder.
A battle of acoustics is playing out at Jerusalem’s Western Wall, the holiest place in the world for Jews. Traditionalists believe the Torah forbids women from singing in public — even at the Wall’s women’s section — and those who dare sing are often harassed. “People come with hundreds of whistles to drown out our…
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Why some Holocaust survivors mourn Ukraine, while others support Putin.
When the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, Roza Nemirovskaya, then 16 years old, was forced to flee her hometown Ternivka in western Ukraine before hundreds of Jews were slaughtered and buried in a mass grave. Not in her worst nightmare, she said, could she have imagined another devastating war in her homeland during her lifetime….
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56 suitcases and a ticket to Warsaw: One woman’s Ukraine relief effort
Barbara Cook was watching the horror in Ukraine unfold on TV and feeling helpless when she stood up, turned off the television, and started packing her bags. Fifty-six bags, to be precise. Cook, an entrepreneur who lives in the East Bay and the daughter of Holocaust survivors, started gathered donations of clothing, toiletries and suitcases…
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In wild overestimate, Americans think 30% of the country is Jewish
Americans significantly overestimate the number of Jews living in the country, according to a survey released Tuesday. Respondents guessed on average that 30% of the U.S. population is Jewish — a sum 15 times the actual proportion. Past surveys have revealed that people overestimate the number of Jews living in their country and around the…
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Victim in alleged antisemitic attack in Los Angeles sues two accused assailants
A man at the center of an alleged antisemitic hate crime during a pro-Palestinian protest in Los Angeles last spring has sued the two men accused of attacking him, seeking damages for an assault his lawyers say was a pre-planned hate crime conspiracy. The lawsuit filed Monday by lawyers for Mher Hagopian describes him as…
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Was the ‘Bad Vegan’ a ‘Vegan Madoff’ — or a victim of sexual abuse?
One thing has never stopped bothering me about the case of the “Bad Vegan.” You can learn many of the details about the case of Sarma Melngailis and Anthony Strangis – and my involvement in the story — by watching the docuseries “Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives” which debuts March 16 on Netflix and which…
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‘Purim Katan’ was a month ago. Why it’s OK if you didn’t notice.
Jews around the world will celebrate Purim, which begins on Wednesday evening. But another Purim — “Purim Katan,” or Little Purim — began on the evening of Feb. 14. Purim Katan is the only Jewish holiday that doesn’t show up every year and often passes unnoticed. This curiosity of the Jewish calendar demands some explanation….
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‘One size fits all does not work’: Candidate for NY governor criticizes new yeshiva education guidelines
Congressman Tom Suozzi, a candidate for New York governor in the upcoming Democratic primaries, criticized the state’s newly-released guidelines to boost secular studies in parochial schools and yeshivas. “Most yeshivas perform well,” Suozzi said in a recent interview. “One size fits all does not work.” The regulations, expected to be presented to the Board of…
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Meet Israel Sabag, the man finding shelter for Ukrainian refugees in Romania — and their pets
Israel Sabag was facing a rebellion from the busload of 30 refugees who arrived unexpectedly at the Joint Distribution Committee’s tent here on Ukraine’s border with Romania Friday morning. Sabag, the Joint’s director for Romania, had been working for weeks with local hotels and hostels to prepare for the flood of people that had been…
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As Purim approaches, antisemitic attacks leave Chicago neighborhood on edge
When an Orthodox husband and wife and their two children approached the entrance to B’nai Reuven, a Chabad-Lubovitch shul in Chicago’s West Rogers Park, last Shabbat, their greeter was an armed security guard. “What has been happening here we’ve seen before,” said the husband, Avram, who refused to give his last name, citing concerns for…
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