((JR)) – Over the course of Irish pop singer Sinead O’Connor’s career, she made her fair share of enemies — most notably the Catholic Church, after she ripped up a picture of the pope on “Saturday Night Live.” But five years after that incident, she also found herself in the crosshairs of Israel’s future national […]
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((JR)) — What did rabbis of late antiquity know about Christianity? To find out, an Israeli religion scholar turned to an Israeli zoologist who studies bats. Their strange-bedfellows paper on the topic uses network analysis — a mathematical field used to visualize data — to map the connections of the rabbis of the Talmud with […]
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((JR)) — According to the Jewish Virtual Library, 550,000 Jews served in the United States armed forces during World War II. There were 38,338 Jewish casualties, while 26,000 Jewish soldiers “received citations for valor and merit.” But in high-profile TV and film, identifiably Jewish soldiers have been a rare sight. One exception came 25 years ago […]
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(JR) — Former Mexican President Vicente Fox apologized to the Jewish community after dismissing political opponent Claudia Sheinbaum, a frontrunner in the developing 2024 presidential race, as a “Bulgarian Jew.” Fox, a right-wing populist and former Coca-Cola executive who was president of Mexico from 2000 to 2006, frequently critiques the country’s current left-wing president, Andrés […]
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(JR) – At first glance, the new movie “Bawaal” has all the hallmarks of a typical Bollywood romantic melodrama: A self-centered protagonist learns how to be an adult and respect his partner, with the help of corny jokes and some song-and-dance numbers. But the movie, which Amazon Prime released on Friday through a distribution deal […]
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(JR) — Jewish fencer Eli Dershwitz made history Tuesday at the World Fencing Championships in Milan, Italy, where he became the first American man to win an individual title in sabre. The 27-year-old two-time Olympian and grandson of Holocaust survivors defeated No. 1-ranked Sandro Bazadze 15-6 in the sabre final. But Dershwitz’s semifinal victory was […]
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(JR) — A Russian missile strike caused “significant damage” to Hillel International’s offices in Odessa, Ukraine on Sunday, the organization said. It was the second time a Hillel building in Ukraine was damaged by Russian fire since the start of the war last year. Its chapter in Kharkiv was destroyed by Russian shelling last year. […]
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(New York Jewish Week) — Award-winning Jewish actress, comedian and writer Rachel Bloom, star and co-creator of the CW hit “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” will bring a one-woman musical comedy to an off-Broadway theater this fall for a four-week run. “Death, Let Me Do My Show,” written by and starring Bloom, will begin previews at the Lucille […]
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(JR) — Large Jewish organizations in seven countries outside of Israel have formed a task force to collaborate on fighting antisemitism. The task force, nicknamed the “J7” and announced Tuesday, will include representatives from the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, Argentina and Australia. According to multiple recent estimates, those countries have the […]
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(New York Jewish Week) — Imagine an Upper West Side seder like any other: adults praying, haggadahs dappled with brisket juice, matzah ball soup a little too salty. Only that’s not a Manischewitz bottle on the table. That’s a magnum of Cru Beaujolais. For this type of epicurean refinement, it helps to have someone in […]
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