((JR)) — When Shawn Harris saw that Jamie Foxx had written “They killed this dude name Jesus… What do you think they’ll do to you???!” on Instagram on Saturday, she thought, “Let’s see what happens next.” Harris, a Black Jewish artist and educator in Virginia, weighed the possibility that the Oscar-winning actor was echoing the […]
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(New York Jewish Week) — Israel’s biggest pop star of the moment, Noa Kirel, is slated to make her U.S. concert debut next year with a performance at Madison Square Garden. Kirel, 22, will play a concert at the Midtown arena on June 30, 2024, Israeli media reported on Tuesday. She will be the second […]
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(JR) – Mehak Burza is the first to admit that the state of Holocaust awareness in India is abysmal. “You will not get a very positive response on this,” she said with a laugh. Indian schoolchildren are taught next to nothing about the events of the Holocaust, and what does make it to textbooks does […]
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(JR) — Ramah Yachad, a Ukrainian Jewish summer camp, celebrated its 30th anniversary last year in exile, having relocated to Romania following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that February. This year, the camp is back in its longtime home in the Chernivtsi region of western Ukraine — a move that camp leaders said was both pragmatic […]
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((JR)) — Fans of the Jewish basketball star Ryan Turell, who is trying to become the first Orthodox Jew to play in the NBA, likely followed his debut season last year in the basketball minor league known as the G League, in which Turell played for the Motor City Cruise in Detroit. Now, a new […]
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(JR) — For the first time in 800 years, the British city of York, whose Jewish population was decimated in a medieval pogrom, will be home to a rabbi. Rabbi Elisheva Salamo arrived in York from California last week after decades of pulpit work in the United States, Switzerland and South Africa. She will take […]
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((JR)) — Adam Weiner, leader of the rock band Low Cut Connie, says he can find inspiration in just about anything. “I could be sitting at a salad bar at a mall, and that gives me everything I need to know,” he said on a video call from a house in New Mexico, where he […]
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(New York Jewish Week) — Violinist Isaac Stern made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1943, but it would hardly be his last performance at the famed concert venue: He performed there more than 200 times between then and his death in 2001 at the age of 81. Carnegie Hall was “part of his DNA,” his […]
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BERLIN (JR) – A retired teacher living in a tiny German island town has been promoting himself as a Jew under the mantle of an official program designed to introduce non-Jews to Jewish people and practices. But Frank Borner is not part of the “Meet a Jew” initiative operated by the Central Council of Jews […]
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((JR)) – Even amid the motley crew with whom he is trying to survive at sea, Jonathan Dade’s introduction as a reality TV contestant makes a splash. “As a Black rabbi who’s also conservative, if we can’t discuss race, religion or politics, I can pretty much never talk,” Dade tells viewers on the new Discovery/Max […]
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