Kathryn Garcia, one of the leading candidates for mayor of New York City, is not a flashy candidate with wide name recognition. Nor does she have an especially compelling personal story to share. But she boasts a record of experience in governance that she believes will inspire voters to choose her for mayor in the…
Despite her Jewish-sounding last name, Pennsylvania teenager Brandi Levy, whose expletive-filled remarks on Snapchat are the center of a case soon to be decided by the Supreme Court, is not Jewish. Her father thinks the Levys are Pennsylvania Dutch. “I was going to do one of those DNA things you see online, on TV, but…
Like many Jewish college athletes, Kylie Hall had a lot of time on her hands when the COVID pandemic struck in March, 2020. The soccer player at Emory University saw games and practices cancelled. Into that void entered a campus rabbi who recruited athletes to an online educational program as a way to pass the…
It’s only four years old, run by four volunteers, and its entire annual budget is $50,000. But the Los Angeles-based Jews United for Democracy and Justice has managed over the past year to draw 200,000 live views to its free virtual events with some of the world’s most prominent public speakers. Under the banner “America…
Naftali Bennett, who is on track to become Israel’s 13th prime minister within days, is easily labeled — religious hard-liner, ultranationalist and settler leader on the one hand, high-tech millionaire, special-forces operative and political wunderkind on the other. Most of these labels, on closer scrutiny, don’t really apply. At least not fully. Bennett at 49…
(JTA) — This article originally appeared on Alma. The Last of Us Part II is a heart-wrenching story of revenge and loss set in a post-apocalyptic America. Released in 2020, the game quickly became the most awarded of all time. While playing through its 25 hours of content, players encounter brash violence — there are…
For years, most Israeli historiography maintained that the country’s decision makers were taken by surprise by the fruits of the victory harvested with lightning speed in June 1967. “The war,” Defense Minister Moshe Dayan said, three days after its conclusion, “developed and rolled into fronts that were not intended and were not preplanned by anyone,…
On fabled Miami Beach, land of sunshine and escape, Blacks and Jews share a shameful history of discrimination and exclusion. Into the 1970s, Blacks were prohibited by racist “sundown” laws from swimming or spending the night on the Beach, or to be there without a work ID. Jews could not buy or rent property on…
(JTA) — Few things rile an online crowd like a mistake in The New York Times. One example is the Twitter account of a contemptuous troll dedicated to pointing out typos and grammar mistakes in the paper of record. But there’s another category of error — the botching of a fraught historical detail — that elicits…
When Daniela Weiner heard about a virtual bake sale against antisemitism, the Chicago pastry chef and food photographer didn’t think twice about joining. Weiner is not Jewish. But she has participated in benefit bake sales before, raising $1,500 last year for racial justice causes, and she also knew that some of her Jewish friends in…
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