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For Jewish teens in Asia, first BBYO convention in Singapore offers a rare sense of community

November 20, 2023November 20, 2023Jesse Orine

TAIPEI (JR) — For a few years eight decades ago, Shanghai was home to an outpost of what would become BBYO, the global Jewish youth movement. At the time, the Chinese city was a refuge for Jews fleeing Europe. Fifteen German Jewish teens created an Aleph Zadik Aleph chapter in June 1941, but when they left […]

Javier Milei, right-wing economist with a passion for Judaism, is elected president of Argentina

November 19, 2023November 19, 2023Jesse Orine

BUENOS AIRES (JR) — Javier Milei, a colorful right-wing populist who has said he would like to convert to Judaism, was elected president of Argentina on Sunday. Early results showed he garnered over 55% of the national vote, defeating Sergio Massa, the current left-wing government’s economy minister. Milei’s passionate love of Judaism and Israel has […]

Police evacuate Toronto Jewish day school after bomb threat

November 17, 2023November 17, 2023Jesse Orine

(JR) — A Jewish day school in Toronto has been evacuated in response to a bomb threat emailed to school staff that claimed “many Jews will die today.” Police arrived on the scene just after noon on Friday to assist in the evacuation of The Anne and Max Tanenbaum Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto and […]

Man arrested in Tokyo after ramming car into barricade near Israeli embassy

November 17, 2023November 17, 2023Jesse Orine

(JR) — A man was arrested in Tokyo on Thursday after ramming his car into a barricade near the Israeli embassy, leaving one police officer with non-life-threatening injuries. Shinobu Sekiguchi, the 53-year-old suspect, was a member of a right-wing group, the police said, according to local reports. The group has joined protests against left-wing pro-Palestinian […]

Sacha Baron Cohen, Debra Messing, Amy Schumer and other Jewish celebrities call out ‘the biggest antisemitic movement since the Nazis’ in meeting with TikTok execs

November 17, 2023November 17, 2023Jesse Orine

((JR)) — A group of Jewish celebrities and TikTok creators decried antisemitism on the video social media platform in a private video call with its executives and employees on Wednesday. The approximately 90-minute meeting included more than 30 participants, according to a recording obtained by The New York Times. It comes during a reported spike […]

20 of 25 authors nominated for National Book Awards call for Gaza ceasefire during ceremony

November 16, 2023November 16, 2023Jesse Orine

((JR)) — Twenty of 25 finalists for the National Book Awards stood together on Wednesday night to deliver a call for a ceasefire in Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza, in a move that had caused one Jewish sponsor of the ceremony to back out. Zibby Owens, the owner of Zibby Books, announced on Tuesday […]

A new book remembers Marty Glickman, the Jewish broadcasting icon famously benched at the Berlin Olympics

November 16, 2023November 17, 2023Jesse Orine

(New York Jewish Week) — Like many New York sports fans of his era, Jeffrey Gurock has a distinct memory related to legendary Jewish broadcaster Marty Glickman. When Gurock, 74, was growing up, one Sunday morning he and his family made the trek from the Bronx to visit his aunt and uncle in Yorktown Heights, about […]

In dark times like these, Jewish tradition suggests a new way of seeing

November 16, 2023November 17, 2023Jesse Orine

This story was first published on My Jewish Learning. ((JR)) — This past week we entered the Hebrew month of Kislev, the month here in the Northern Hemisphere when we often experience the longest, darkest nights of the year. As the light contracts each day, I experience a tightening in my gut, an anxious fluttering […]

The unofficial mayor of Queens’ Bukharian Jewish community gets a long-awaited honor

November 16, 2023November 17, 2023Jesse Orine

(New York Jewish Week) — Throughout his nearly 50 years living in Forest Hills, Queens, Gavriel Davidov was the unofficial mayor of the borough’s Bukharian Jewish community. He was widely known a peacekeeper, and the first person someone could turn to for help. The owner of Gavriel Davidov Jewelry, a fine jeweler in Manhattan’s Diamond […]

Comedians defend Israel the best way they know how: Make ’em laugh

November 16, 2023November 16, 2023Jesse Orine

((JR)) — In his viral video on social media after the Hamas attack on Israel, comedian Daniel-Ryan Spaulding riffs on the imagined reactions of an intolerably “woke” activist. “If there was a Hamas terrorist attack at a queer rave in Brooklyn or Berlin, there’d probably be a purple-haired girl in the center of the massacre watching […]