Hours after emerging from a ritual bath marking her conversion to Judaism, Yona Speidel was leaving a celebratory dinner with her rabbi when a man across the street yelled “f–ck Jews.” For Speidel, it was an unexpected welcome into the Jewish community. “My rabbi looked at me and he goes, ‘Welcome,’” Speidel recalled. “And I […]
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After weeks of backlash from Jewish groups and leaders, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights this weekend opened its exhibit on the Nakba, the narrative of Palestinian defeat and displacement upon Israel’s founding. The Winnipeg, Manitoba, exhibit is called “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present” and features photography, poetry and everyday objects that document the […]
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The symbolic internment in France’s Pantheon mausoleum of Marc Bloch, the Jewish French scholar and World War II resistance fighter executed by the Nazis, has been haunted by persistent divisions over who in France gets to commemorate the terrors of its Nazi occupation. Bloch’s descendants asked the government to ban far-right leaders — who have […]
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A photo surfaced of a leader in Germany’s far-right party appearing to display a Nazi salute, drawing scrutiny as the party seems poised to grasp unprecedented power in upcoming elections. Martin Reichardt, a federal lawmaker and member of the Alternative for Germany party, raised his left arm as another man knelt on one knee before […]
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TIRANA, Albania — The massive daily street protests rocking this Balkan capital began May 31 as a public outpouring of anger against a $4 billion coastal resort proposed by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner — and quickly snowballed into demands for the resignation of longtime Prime Minister Edi Rama. Somewhere along the way, not-so-subtle […]
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The chair of the United Kingdom’s largest arts institution will step down this fall following months of controversy over allegations of antisemitism and his social media activity related to Israel. Misan Harriman, 48, the chair of the publicly funded Southbank Centre in central London that hosts millions of visitors per year, publicly stated earlier this […]
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What do the ultra-wealthy owe the rest of us? It may be the defining argument of our second Gilded Age. While Elon Musk insists that his businesses “are philanthropy,” and America’s richest people gave away on average less than 5% of their total wealth in 2025, an actual Gilded Age titan offers a different example. […]
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This article was produced by the events team at 70 Faces Media, the non-profit organization that publishes (JR) and the New York Jewish Week. It’s no secret: Mah jongg is having a major moment. The historic Chinese game — first popularized in the United States more than 100 years ago, then nurtured by Jewish women starting […]
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Just about the last thing I wanted to do on a summer weekend in the Berkshires was to see a play called “The Zionists.” The title alone practically dares audiences to arrive with their defenses up. Its subject is the bitter family and communal fractures that followed Oct. 7, 2023. Its Jewish characters argue angrily, […]
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Michael Mizrahi, an Israeli citizen and longtime member of Montreal’s Jewish community, has been identified as the civilian killed in Monday’s shooting involving a gunman and Canadian police officers in Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood. The suspected gunman was killed during the incident, the investigation of which is ongoing. Police have not publicly released the suspect’s identity […]
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