Mark Levine, a term-limited councilman from Manhattan, is battle tested. In his two campaigns for the City Council, Levine, who is Jewish, was subject to vitriolic antisemitic attacks from a primary rival. “I have confronted explicit antisemitism in politics before and I’ve proven that we can beat it,” he said after his re-election. And just…
צווישן די באַטייליקטע זענען געווען ייִדישע און נישט־ייִדישע וואָלונטירן, פּוילישע שולקינדער און מענטשן פֿאַרמישפּט צו אָבליגאַטאָרישער אַרבעט.
As a 21-year-old heading off to social work school, I watched my Bubby Jenny die within six months of being put into a nursing home following a stroke. My mother and uncle, her brother, felt helpless and were shattered by both the experience and by their mother’s bitterness toward them at sending her away. There…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — When Harry Reid was 19, he wanted to marry Landra Gould. Her Jewish parents had other ideas. Reid, a middleweight boxer, got into a fistfight with Gould’s father in the Goulds’ front yard. And then he and Landra eloped. Reid’s pugilistic sensibility served him well, lifting him up from abject poverty through…
(JTA) — The former host of “Big Brother Brasil” has been hit with a wave of antisemitism after getting into an online argument about the reality show with a popular soap opera actor. After the actor Icaro Silva criticized the show, calling it “mediocre entertainment,” Tiago Leifert, who is Jewish and hosted the show from…
As a kid growing up in Chicago, Alana Chandler, who is a Japanese-Jewish American, felt both invisible and all too noticeable. “If you’re in a space with mostly Ashkenazi-looking people, Jews of Color tend to stand out,” Chandler explained. “We don’t look like what one thinks of as typically Jewish.” And though there are hundreds…
(JTA) — The clock has run out on 2021, and in the world of Jewish sports, it’s been an exciting year. From a very Jewish World Series to inspiring performances in the Olympics and Paralympics, Jewish athletes and teams accomplished impressive feats across sports and around the world. For the Jewish Sport Report, we scoured…
דער אַרטיקל נעמט אַרײַן אַ זעלטענעם ווידעאָ פֿון די סאָוועטיש־ייִדישע קולטור־טוער מיכאָעלס און פּרץ מאַרקיש בײַם מיקראָפֿאָן.
LONDON (JTA) — There are two sketches of Philipp Manes, a leading early-20th-century German-Jewish businessman, in the notebooks that he kept with him during his two-year imprisonment at the Theresienstadt transit camp. Both are drawn shortly before Manes was deported to Auschwitz in October 1944, and could not be more different. One portrait shows Manes…
זעט די אימפּאָזאַנטע פֿאָרעם פֿונעם קעסטל־רעטעניש, צוגעגרייט פֿון אונדזער נײַעם רעטעניש־שאַפֿער, דזשיימי קאָנוויי.
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