(JR) — Swiss Jews are planning a vigil after a 50-year-old member of the Orthodox community in Zurich was stabbed Saturday night in what police say may be a hate crime. The 50-year-old man who was stabbed is hospitalized after suffering life-threatening wounds, according to Tachles, a Swiss Jewish magazine. A 15-year-old male suspect was arrested […]
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(JR) — Just three weeks after the singer Eden Golan was chosen to represent Israel at Eurovision, her participation in the music competition is in jeopardy because of the song she wants to sing. The European Broadcasting Union, which runs the competition, declined to accept the first song Israel submitted to the contest because of […]
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TIGRE, ARGENTINA (JR) — For the first time in nearly six decades, a Jewish soccer club is competing in an Argentine national soccer tournament. The club, Náutico Hacoaj used its victory in the first round of competition to pay tribute to Israel. The team represents the prominent Hacoaj (“strength” in Hebrew) Jewish community center and […]
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(New York Jewish Week) — Like so many stuck at home during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Marlo Gorelick picked up a new hobby: cake decorating. She learned all the trendy techniques of the day, from of-the-moment decorations to how to properly layer colorful cakes and jams in order to create the all-popular rainbow cake. […]
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (JR) — A Chinese actor who voices a popular children’s cartoon is drawing criticism after he made antisemitic comments on social media. “Jews are all rats and cockroaches. Wherever they stop to rest a moment, they multiply. Dirty as hell,” the actor, Zhang Bingjun, wrote on Weibo, the microblogging site that is one […]
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(New York Jewish Week) — What if the first book of the Hebrew Bible had a female God who created the world — and what if the first human created was a woman, not a man? What if the story of the near sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham was flipped — and a mother was […]
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((JR)) — David Draiman, the Jewish frontman of heavy metal band Disturbed, is raising money to provide private security for Matisyahu after the Jewish reggae singer had two venues cancel on him in the face of pro-Palestinian protests. “I’m raising funds to provide security for our brother @matisyahu,” Draiman, the heavy metal singer, wrote on […]
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BERLIN (JR) — An Israeli journalist says he has been receiving death threats after winning two major prizes at the Berlinale International Film Festival for his documentary about Israel’s expulsion of Palestinians from their West Bank villages. The prizes were awarded during the film festival’s closing ceremony, during which multiple filmmakers — including a Jewish […]
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(New York Jewish Week) — “My feelings about Israel are the reasonable ones,” says Asaf Sternheim, an adjunct writing professor at an unnamed university who is the protagonist in a buzzy new play opening in New York this week. Speaking to his wife, Asaf — played by Jewish actor and “How I Met Your Mother” star […]
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(JR) — As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine enters its third year, nearly all funds raised by Jewish federations for humanitarian relief in Ukraine have run out, according to Eric Fingerhut, president and CEO of Jewish Federations of North America. After distributing $96 million in aid such as relocation expenses, food, and medical care over the […]
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