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Singing in one voice: Arab-Jewish women’s choir challenges the cycle of war
This article is adapted from The Branch, a monthly podcast exploring individual relationships between Jews and Arabs, Israelis and Palestinians. The Branch is produced by Hadassah and created by Dina Kraft, a journalist based in Tel Aviv. Sign up here to listen to episodes and be notified when new episodes are published. JAFFA, ISRAEL —…
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Your weekend reads: a ‘Friends’ reunion, a visit to George Floyd Square and an exclusive interview with Scott Stringer
Each week, Forward editors pick highlights from our coverage to savor over Shabbat and Sunday. You can download and print a PDF of those stories by clicking here, or click on any of the headlines below. Have a great weekend! Your Weekend Reads
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For Turkey’s Sephardic Jews, Spanish passports provide a pathway for vaccination
When Spanish monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella expelled the Jews of the Iberian peninsula, the Ottoman Sultan Beyazid II sent ships to Spain to ferry them to what is today Turkey and welcome them into his empire. More than 500 years later, the descendants of these Sephardic Turkish Jews have embarked on another potentially life saving…
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How parents and rabbis are talking to kids about the rise in antisemitic attacks
As a group of Orthodox Jews walked home following Shabbat services last week in suburban Atlanta, two days after a ceasefire ended 11 days of conflict between Israel and Hamas, a man walking in another direction made the Nazi salute and yelled, “Hamas should have killed you all.” That same day, Rabbi Chaim Neiditch was…
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Willie Zabar brings you behind the lox counter with his new podcast
(JTA) — For many 20-somethings, the experience of moving back into their parents’ home during the pandemic was common. For Willie Zabar, fourth-generation scion of one of New York’s most famous Jewish emporiums, the pandemic brought a different kind of homecoming: returning to the family business. A comedian and theater worker, Zabar, 28, had mostly…
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A spate of antisemitism reveals Jewish community fissures
After more than 200 hate crimes were committed against Jews in New York City two years ago, including a series of violent attacks on Orthodox Jews, 25,000 people walked across the Brooklyn Bridge in a solidarity march organized by the UJA Federation of New York and sponsored by a host of other major Jewish organizations….
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82-year-old ‘Seinfeld’ actress Annie Korzen is the queen of TikTok these days
Most people will recognize actor Annie Korzen from her four “Seinfeld” appearances, three as Doris Klumpus and one as an obnoxious airline passenger. But the octogenarian has been acting since 1975, in small roles ranging from “Tootsie” to “Black Monday,” and is now making her mark on an even smaller screen as one of TikTok’s…
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San Francisco public teachers’ union is first in nation to endorse Israel boycott movement
In a historic endorsement, the teachers’ union for the San Francisco Unified School District passed a resolution on May 19 in support of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel. The United Educators of San Francisco, which is affiliated with the AFL-CIO, the largest federation of unions in the country, is the first American…
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Superman taught me how to be a Cuban Jew
(JTA) — This article originally appeared on Alma. I was Jewish to everyone but the Jews. That’s what it felt like to grow up the son of a Cuban mother and Jewish father. I looked exactly like my dad, with his curly hair and deep-set eyes, and I had his last name, Steinberg, stitched on…
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At the new Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience, seder plates and slave receipts
At the new Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience, there’s an ornate Torah crown from a synagogue in Port Gibson, Mississippi, dating back to the 1850s. Walk a few more steps, and there’s a bill of sale for a 12-year-old enslaved girl to a Southern Jewish family in Arkansas. Yes: growing up Jewish in the…
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British Jews fear antisemitism has risen to unprecedented heights after Gaza protests
(JTA) — The ceasefire declared by Israel and Hamas after 11 days of fighting seems to be holding, but the aftereffects on Jews in Europe — especially in Britain — are still being felt. As in previous rounds of Israeli military conflicts involving Palestinians over the past 20 years, antisemitic violence and intimidation have surged…
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