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Rachel Bloom’s one-woman musical comedy to open off-Broadway this fall

July 25, 2023July 25, 2023Jesse Orine

(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 […]

Large Jewish groups in 7 countries team up to fight antisemitism

July 25, 2023July 25, 2023Jesse Orine

(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 […]

The ‘Grand Cru Jew’ pours fine wine at Michelin-starred Japanese restaurant in the West Village

July 24, 2023July 24, 2023Jesse Orine

(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 […]

At BroadwayCon in Midtown, Jewish actors dish on identity and representation in the industry

July 23, 2023July 23, 2023Jesse Orine

(New York Jewish Week) – A woman dressed as Fanny Brice from “Funny Girl” and another dressed as Fruma Sarah from “Fiddler on the Roof” were among the 100-plus people who filed into a Midtown conference room on Friday morning to discuss Jewish identity on Broadway. The Jewish fans — whose real names were […]

A prominent German critic of Israel claimed to be Jewish. Now he says he is not.

July 21, 2023July 21, 2023Jesse Orine

BERLIN (JR) — He was celebrated on the left as a prominent Jewish critic of Israel. But the German journalist and teacher Fabian Wolff has revealed that he is not Jewish after all, sparking criticism of the way he framed his political positions. In a personal essay published on Sunday in Zeit Online, Wolff said […]

A Jewish guide to the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup

July 21, 2023July 21, 2023Jesse Orine

(JR) — The FIFA Women’s World Cup is underway, with 32 teams from around the globe competing in the quadrennial tournament, co-hosted this year by Australia and New Zealand. It has been an exciting year for Jews in men’s soccer: In the men’s World Cup in the winter, two Jewish players, goalkeeper Matt Turner and defender […]

Meet Thomas Poretsky, 10-year-old Native American-Jewish racer

July 21, 2023July 21, 2023Jesse Orine

ELKO NEW MARKET, Minn. ((JR) via TC Jewfolk) — Thomas Poretsky is six years away from being behind the wheel of a street-legal car and is too young to drive bumper cars at the State Fair. This is ironic as he stands in the shadow of Elko Speedway in a firesuit and holds his racing […]

Philadelphia’s American Jewish history museum extends free admission

July 20, 2023July 20, 2023Jesse Orine

((JR)) — The most prominent American Jewish history museum is extending a free admission program that began when it reopened following the pandemic. The elimination of ticket fees through at least the end of 2023 reflects a vote of confidence in Philadelphia’s Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History, which was fighting to survive three […]

Rose Feiss Boulevard honors a ‘small but mighty’ maven of the South Bronx

July 20, 2023July 20, 2023Jesse Orine

(New York Jewish Week) — In the industrial Port Morris neighborhood in the Bronx, a 10-block stretch of Walnut Avenue bears the name Rose Feiss Boulevard, honoring the Jewish immigrant woman who lived, worked and touched the lives of many in the borough. Rose Feiss was born in Minsk, Russia in 1901. She immigrated to […]

It’s ‘Hanukkah in the summer’ as New Yorkers raid the Jewish Book Council’s shelves

July 20, 2023July 21, 2023Jesse Orine

(New York Jewish Week) — The competition started in the elevator. On Wednesday night, around 5:40 p.m., a woman lugging an empty suitcase across the ground floor of the nondescript 520 8th Avenue office building in Manhattan yelled, “Hold that door!” She was hoping to get a prime spot in line at the event happening […]