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How a non-Jewish Swiss baker’s challah wowed the internet
(JTA) — This article originally appeared on The Nosher. Challah baker Katharina Arrigoni lives in a town in northern Switzerland with 3,000 residents, none of whom — including Arrigoni – are Jewish. Entirely self-taught, Arrigoni has never tasted a challah other than her own creations. Yet thanks to the power of the internet and Instagram,…
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Following spat over J Street, Zionist movement elects new leaders
The American Zionist Movement named new leadership at its national assembly Tuesday, following months of rancor over the composition of its board. Deborah S. Isaac was elected as the umbrella group’s first female president and Michael Laufer will serve as the new board chair. “There is only one place in the entire world that will…
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How to celebrate the first Holocaust Survivors Day
The first Holocaust Survivor Day will be celebrated on Thursday to honor the world’s remaining 350,000 Holocaust survivors. Though there are three separate days each year to remember those who perished in the Holocaust, there had been none set aside for an annual recognition of survivors. Spearheaded by a group of Jewish community leaders and…
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The pandemic was the perfect time for my Catholic son to learn about the Holocaust
At the close-knit Catholic school from which my son, Nico, just graduated, every eighth grader must study the Holocaust. The unit is both capstone and rite of passage— by eighth grade, students have the intellectual and emotional maturity to grasp this important subject matter. “It’s hard to study the Holocaust,” Nico, who is 14, told…
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Israel’s baseball team heads to Olympics with made-in-America talent
In 2017, a ragtag bunch of Jewish minor leaguers, retired pros and semi-pros competing as Team Israel made a miracle run at the World Baseball Classic, winning its first six games and ultimately finishing in sixth place. They’ll be in Tokyo next month to prove it wasn’t a fluke — with a former all-star supplying…
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Fritzie Fritzshall, Holocaust survivor and Chicago activist, dies
Holocaust survivor and social activist Fritzie Fritzshall died Saturday at the age of 91. Frtizshall survived the death camps to become a leading voice for Holocaust education. She served as president of Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center and remained active in bridging ethnic and religious divides throughout her life. “She was brave, selfless, wise…
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Leading NYC mayoral candidates make their final pitches to Jewish voters
As they crisscrossed the five boroughs in the final days and hours before Tuesday’s primary, leading candidates for mayor made their final pitches to Jewish voters, an often key constituency in New York elections. Scott Stringer, the city’s comptroller, rallied with Jewish supporters on the Upper West Side on Saturday; Maya Wiley, a former counsel…
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Antisemitism: How to respond if you’re the victim or a witness
While a tenuous ceasefire between Israel and Gaza seems to be holding despite tit-for-tat violence last Wednesday, American Jews are still reeling from a reported surge in antisemitism following the conflict in the Middle East. Incidents include a window at a kosher pizzeria in Manhattan shattered with a brick, a synagogue door in Utah vandalized…
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Montana Tucker celebrates Pride— and her Holocaust survivor grandparents
Montana Tucker isn’t quite what you expect – and to be clear, that’s a good thing. She may, at first glance, look something like the blonde, perennially-upbeat influencers popping up across the social media landscape — but wait until she starts talking. “My motivation?” she said in a recent interview. “My Grandma Lilly, definitely.” Tucker,…
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A kosher calamity ends: Trader Joe’s reintroduces pareve chocolate chips
Kosher pareve semi-sweet chocolate chips have been returning to Trader Joe’s stores across the country in recent weeks, a delectable sight for halachic shoppers since they disappeared from the shelves in 2012. It was a great kosher calamity at the time, reminiscent of the bank runs before the Great Depression. Frantic shoppers cleaned out the…
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Japan, home to the Summer Olympics, has a rich Jewish history
As athletes converge on Japan for the Olympic Games that begin July 23, they won’t find any restaurants that serve kosher meat, but they will find a rich Jewish history dating back to the arrival of Portuguese conversos (Jews who converted to Catholicism under severe persecution) who arrived in Japan as merchants in the early…
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