Shalom, investors! The married couple that runs Brooklyn’s popular Jewish-Japanese fusion restaurant Shalom Japan appeared on ABC’s business reality show “Shark Tank” on Wednesday night — and struck a verbal deal with real estate mogul Barbara Corcoran that could result in a freezer-aisle version of a signature dish. Sawako Okochi and Aaron Israel sought $200,000 […]
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The IDF’s chief cantor will be allowed to perform for Hanukkah in Amsterdam’s Royal Concert Hall — but not for everyone — after tensions over Israel ripped through one of the city’s most popular Jewish celebrations. The Royal Concert Hall, or Concertgebouw, last week canceled the performance to be hosted by the Chanukah Concert Foundation […]
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University College London has barred an academic and suspended the campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine after video footage showed the academic repeating antisemitic conspiracy theories in a lecture to the group. Samar Maqusi was speaking to the SJP chapter on Tuesday when she made the comments, according to footage shared by the […]
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When Michael Smuss died last month at 99, an era of Jewish history came to a close. Smuss was the last known resistance fighter during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, when Jews rose up against their Nazi persecutors in one of the most dramatic episodes of the Holocaust. Smuss was not the only prominent survivor to […]
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Adolf Hitler had a sexual disorder that made it more likely for him to have a micro-penis, according to the first-ever analysis of his DNA. He also did not have the Jewish ancestors that some have claimed he had. The analysis is being revealed in detail in “Hitler’s DNA: Blueprint of a Dictator,” a new […]
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Dima and Yuliia Lytvnenko spent their entire lives in Odessa. There, the married couple owned a restaurant, Mama Cassala (Ukrainian for “Mama Said”) and a sausage factory. Both were destroyed in 2022 rocket attacks during the ongoing war with Russia. Fearing for their safety, the Jewish family — they have three children, ages 15, 11 […]
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Pope Leo XIV included the 1997 Holocaust movie “Life Is Beautiful” among his four favorite films of all time. “Life Is Beautiful,” a melodrama by Italian filmmaker and comedian Robert Benigni, follows an Italian Jewish father and his son as they are sent to a Nazi concentration camp. There the father uses humor and misdirection […]
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Actor Gal Gadot has won the Genesis Prize, sometimes called the “Jewish Nobel,” for supporting Israel even as backlash against the country’s actions in Gaza rocked Hollywood. Since Oct. 7, 2023, Gadot has been an outspoken advocate for Israelis taken captive by Hamas. Calling herself “a proud Jew and a proud Israeli,” she said in […]
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ROSWELL, New Mexico — If it weren’t for an Ashkenazi Jew named Stanton T. Friedman, the world might have long ago forgotten what’s come to be known simply as the “Roswell incident.” Instead, countless books, documentaries and made-for-TV dramas have explored the 1947 discovery of mysterious materials found on a New Mexico ranch that Friedman […]
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The Vatican is investigating a member of its Swiss Guards, who protect the pope, for allegedly making a spitting gesture at two Jewish women. The women were part of an international Jewish delegation attending a conference with Pope Leo XIV on Oct. 29. The event marked the 60th anniversary of Nostra Aetate, the landmark 1965 […]
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