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Turkish Jewish media outlets hit with cyberattacks amid global antisemitism surge
The cyberattacks began in May following the outbreak of fighting between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza strip this spring. Months after the ceasefire, they are still targeting Avlaremoz, an alternative Turkish Jewish web magazine. The media outlet has been sustaining consistent “denial-of-service” or “ddos” attacks, in which a website is bombarded with thousands if…
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This Jewish millennial is becoming a Civil War historian
Nils Skudra was nearly five-and-a-half years old when he told his mother about his past life. “He looked at me out of the side of his eye and said, ‘I was a soldier in the American Civil War,’” his mother, Renee, recounted. “‘I saw action at the Battle of Gettysburg, and I died on the…
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Ice cream wars: Ben & Jerry’s is hardly the first to make frozen desserts political
Israeli president Isaac Herzog referred to the departure of Cherry Garcia from settlements (Ben & Jerry’s will continue to operate inside Israel’s borders) as “a new kind of terrorism.” Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford called for a ban on the sale of Ben & Jerry’s products. (Even under the state’s current anti-BDS law, which prohibits the…
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Not sorry enough? U. Wisconsin apologizes, but does not change plan to start classes on Rosh Hashanah
Sophomore Anna Glassman is looking forward to returning to the University of Wisconsin-Madison this August, but not the first day of school in September. She’s one of many students who must choose between going to class and observing Rosh Hashanah, thanks to the university’s decision to make the first day of school Sept. 8, the…
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Meet the rabbi who still blows the shofar every night at 7 to salute health care workers
(JTA) — Rabbi Janise Poticha had been blowing the shofar on her terrace every evening at 7 for five months when the daily ritual began to take on a new meaning. Her sister contracted COVID in August and, after a week and a half at home, had to be hospitalized and later intubated. “She spent…
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Advocate for women leadership nominated for senior Middle East post
Four years ago, a group of prominent female foreign policy and national security officials who served in the Obama and Clinton administrations met regularly for lunch to lament the lack of women in senior government positions. The meetings, described by one of the attendees as ‘kvetch’ sessions, led to the creation of the Leadership Council…
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What Ben & Jerry’s can learn from Airbnb about boycotting the West Bank
Airbnb, the travel lodging website, announced three years ago that it would remove listings in Israeli West Bank settlements, a decision that progressive activists cheered and Israel’s defenders jeered. On Monday, Ben & Jerry’s was met with the same reactions when it announced that it would stop selling its ice cream in the West Bank….
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Meet Peter Kurz, the architect of Israel’s Olympic baseball team
As a 10-year-old boy, in 1967, Peter Kurz fell in love with Israel during a two-month trip to visit family. Two years later, the New York Mets won the World Series and fostered a love of baseball for the New York native. Who would’ve thought that more than 50 years later, Kurz would combine those…
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After scandal, can the Philadelphia Federation’s new CEO turn it around?
People in the world of Jewish philanthropy talk about the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia like a troubled child with unmet potential. Its yearly fundraising has trailed millions of dollars behind peers with similar-sized Jewish populations, like Boston, since at least 2001. It has seen recent turnover in key leadership positions as well as pandemic-related…
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Ben & Jerry’s may be first major test of American anti-BDS laws
Ben & Jerry’s announcement Monday that it will end sales in the occupied West Bank may cause a pint of trouble for its parent company as it tests Americans laws intended to bar companies that boycott Israel from state government contracts and pension funds. More than 30 states have passed legislation meant to deter boycotts…
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In Iraqi Kurdistan, a one-man museum celebrates the region’s Jewish history and ethnic diversity
For more than 27 centuries, Jews lived in the region around Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s semi-independent Kurdish Regional Government. Once home to a Jewish community numbering in the tens of thousands, the Kurdistan region and wider area of Northern Iraq is also, many believe, the final resting place of the prophets Nahum and Jonah…
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