(JR) — The head rabbi of Britain’s Masorti movement published a statement Tuesday opposing a threatened Israel invasion of Rafah in southern Gaza and urging “another, political, path forward.” The statement makes Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg possibly the highest-profile European Jewish leader to express misgivings about Israel’s war in Gaza since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on […]
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(New York Jewish Week) – For his very first runway show under his own label for New York Fashion Week, Israeli designer Kobi Halperin knew exactly the message he wanted to send: hope. On Sunday, Halperin concluded his show at Soho’s Splashlight Studios for his Fall 2024 collection, titled “Illumination of Hope,” with an instrumental […]
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((JR)) — Was the first antisemitism-themed ad to air at the Super Bowl tactful or tasteless? How much did it have to do with Israel? And what is “Jewish hate,” anyway? Those are some of the questions that have arisen after the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism, the group founded in 2019 by New England Patriots owner […]
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(JR) — A London theater has apologized after a performer allegedly singled out an Israeli audience member who refused to applaud a Palestinian flag during a comedy set on Saturday night. Comedian Paul Currie also riled up his audience to shout “Free Palestine” and “Get out” as multiple Jewish audience members exited, according to an […]
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(New York Jewish Week) — Hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators protested inside the Museum of Modern Art on Saturday to demand “a free Palestine and an art world without Zionism.” Footage on Instagram showed demonstrators crowding into the museum’s lobby, chanting “Free Palestine,” and hanging banners that said “Ceasefire now” and “Free Palestine from the river […]
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(JR) — In December 1941, a petite, elegant woman left her home in Eastern Galicia, where she was known as the Jewish mathematician Janina Spinner Mehlberg. Three days later, she arrived in Lublin — soon to be an epicenter of Nazi extermination in occupied Poland — with a new identity. She was now Countess Janina […]
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((JR)) — An icon of Black history takes center stage in an ad placed by the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism on Sunday night’s Super Bowl LVIII, expected to be viewed by 100 million people. Robert Kraft’s foundation launched the “#StandUptoJewishHate” campaign last year to raise awareness about antisemitism and the importance of opposing it. Now, […]
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BERLIN (JR) – Germany’s major international film festival has turned the spotlight on the country’s biggest far-right political party, saying they are not wanted at festival’s upcoming gala launch. The Berlinale festival announced Feb. 8 that it had disinvited five politicians from the far-right Alternative for Germany party from the opening event. The 10-day film […]
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((JR)) — Empty chairs representing the Israeli hostages held in Gaza lit up the stage of Israel’s “Rising Star” song competition show Tuesday night as 20-year-old Eden Golan, wearing a yellow ribbon pin, sang Aerosmith’s “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” — an emotional grand finale for the country’s auditions to the Eurovision Song […]
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(JR) — Australian police are investigating threats against a 5-year-old Jewish child amid an uproar over the publication online of a list of hundred of Jewish creatives’ personal information by pro-Palestinian activists. Hundreds of Jewish academics and creatives who joined a private WhatsApp group last year had their personal information shared publicly by prominent pro-Palestinian […]
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