Days before a massacre on a Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach, Sydney, the region’s Jewish security organization asked the police to send officers to Hanukkah events in the city. The organization, the Community Security Group, had already worked with Chabad of Bondi to create a security plan for the event that included fencing off an […]
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In 1976, deep in New York City’s fiscal crisis, the artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles read a review of her conceptual work in the Village Voice. In his review, critic David Bourdon made a radical suggestion inspired by Ukeles’ thesis: What if municipal work, like the Sanitation Department, were conceptual art? Could it get funded by […]
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This article was produced as part of (JR)’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. The first time 14-year-old Matan Stein, an avid contemporary music fan in Israel, tried to play one of his favorite songs and nothing happened, he was confused. […]
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Two Jewish men were stabbed on the street in a heavily Orthodox neighborhood of London on Wednesday, escalating anxieties amid ongoing incidents targeting local Jews that police say reflect Iranian involvement. A man was arrested at the scene in Golders Green after being apprehended first by members of the Shomrim, a Jewish security force that […]
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Acclaimed author J.D. Salinger asked his publisher to remove references to his Jewish heritage in the book jacket of “The Catcher in the Rye,” newly surfaced letters from 1951 reveal. The request came in a letter from Salinger, a notoriously private man, and his editor, John Woodburn at publisher Little, Brown and Co. The correspondence, […]
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Israel on Tuesday of purchasing grain “stolen” by Russia from occupied Ukrainian territory, and said Ukraine could impose sanctions in response. “In any normal country, purchasing stolen goods is an act that entails legal liability,” Zelensky wrote in a post on X. “This applies, in particular, to grain stolen by […]
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TORONTO — After a man riddled a Jewish-owned restaurant with bullets in uptown Toronto, police accomplished something earlier this month that they hadn’t done following previous attacks on Jewish sites: identify and charge a suspect. The 35-year-old suspect, Mohamed Mahdi, was arrested just a few days after the April 3 attack and charged with on multiple […]
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A concert to raise money for the victims of the shooting attack on a Hanukkah party on Sydney’s Bondi Beach has been canceled after the Greek choir that was to take part voted not to sing with a Jewish choir. A majority of members of the 50-member Australian Hellenic Choir “politically objected” to singing alongside […]
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A five-person international jury at the Venice Biennale says it will no longer consider entries from Israel or Russia in its award deliberations — though it didn’t name either country in its announcement. The jury announced its decision in the online arts publishing platform e-flux last week. In a statement, the jury explained that it […]
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Pro-Palestinian activists, some reportedly shouting antisemitic invective, forced Jewish groups out of a procession celebrating Italy’s Liberation Day from Nazism and fascism in Milan over the weekend. About 100 protesters on Saturday blocked a group commemorating the Jewish Brigade, a unit of 5,000 Jews from British Mandate Palestine who volunteered to fight against the Germans […]
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