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(JTA) — The foreign affairs committee of the parliament of Catalonia, Spain’s second-most populous region, accused Israel of committing “apartheid.” Thursday’s vote in Barcelona adopted a draft resolution submitted months ago by far-left politicians. About half of the 30 lawmakers who sit on the committee voted in favor of the draft resolution. Several others voted…
When Alexandra Rodriguez takes a tequila shot this Cinco de Mayo, she’ll toast l’chaim. Growing up in El Paso, Texas, Rodriguez didn’t feel much of a connection to the holiday. For her parents, who emigrated from Mexico, celebrating Cinco de Mayo would have been like people from the U.S. celebrating the Battle of Gettysburg, said…
For two decades, heirs to a German Jewish art dealer have been trying to get back a beloved painting looted by the Nazis during the Holocaust. On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled in their favor. In 1939, Lilly Cassirer Neubauer surrendered the painting — “Rue Saint-Honoré, Apres Midi, Effet de Pluie” by the famed French-Jewish…
“Rifkin’s Festival,” Woody Allen’s 49th feature, has a marketing problem. I’m not really alluding to the obvious issues. Not the HBO series about the alleged – and denied by Allen – sexual abuse of his daughter Dylan Farrow (full disclosure, I was a talking head in said series). Or even something like the #MeToo press…
On a recent warm night in Madrid, a young woman shared that she had travelled over 3,000 miles, leaving her husband and two young children in Montreal, to claim Spanish citizenship. Over glasses of the local Alhambra brew, she told me that her grandparents spoke Ladino, and that whenever someone would mention Spain around her…
(JTA) — As a British resident born in Dubai to a Palestinian father and Lebanese mother, Heba Nabil Iskandarani had plenty of potential national identities. What she lacked, however, was a passport. A 26-year-old lecturer in architecture at Birmingham City University, Iskandarani has been stateless for most of her life, possessing only a Lebanese travel…
(JTA) — A second carnival in Spain has referenced the Holocaust with Nazi and concentration camp prisoner uniform costumes. The theme was “the same.” The Holocaust-themed display at the Feb. 23 event in Badajos occurred amid debate on the appropriateness of festive parades apparently making light of the murder of millions of Jews and Romanis…
(JTA) — Answering criticism of a float that depicted Holocaust victims dancing with Nazis alongside crematoria, the Spanish town that hosted the parade said the display was allowed only because its creators had described it as a form of commemoration. The municipality of Campo de Criptana offered the explanation in a statement Tuesday about the…
