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Hundreds of academics and institutions, including Yad Vashem, condemn Polish government’s attack on Holocaust historian

April 29, 2023April 29, 2023Jesse Orine

(JTA) — A Polish political feud over Holocaust history has widened into an international condemnation of the government’s attempts to silence a leading scholar on Polish-Jewish relations during World War II. More than 300 academics and institutions around the world — including Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust history authority and memorial — issued a statement condemned […]

Jerry Springer, son of Jewish refugees whose eponymous talk show was known for conflict, dies at 79

April 28, 2023April 28, 2023Jesse Orine

(JTA) — Jerry Springer, the son of Jewish refugees who set aside a promising political career to become the ringleader of a circus-like syndicated talk show featuring feuding couples, angry exes and frequent fisticuffs, died Thursday morning at his home in the Chicago area. A family spokesperson told TMZ that Springer, who was 79, had […]

Dutch archives on accused Nazi collaborators to open to the public in 2025

April 28, 2023April 28, 2023Jesse Orine

(JTA) — The Dutch government is planning to throw open information about 300,000 people investigated for their collaboration with the Nazis, in a move that could accelerate a reckoning with the Netherlands’ Holocaust record. For the past seven decades, only researchers and relatives of those accused of collaborating with the Nazis could access the information […]

Steve Guttenberg, and his very Jewish life, take the stage for a play adaptation of his memoir

April 28, 2023April 28, 2023Jesse Orine

(JTA) — Actor Steve Guttenberg has had the kind of career that put him in touch with nearly every trend in Hollywood. There were prestige films like “Diner” and “Cocoon” and the lighter but wildly successful fare like the first four movies in the “Police Academy” series. “Three Men and a Baby” was the biggest […]

Switzerland to erect first national memorial honoring Nazi victims

April 28, 2023Jesse Orine

(JTA) — The Swiss government agreed Wednesday to help pay for the country’s first national memorial to honor the 6 million Jews and other victims of the Holocaust. Long known for its reputation of neutrality during World War II, Switzerland has seen its image undercut in recent decades by revelations that major Swiss banks played […]

Barry Manilow’s ‘Harmony,’ musical about troupe with Jewish members in Nazi Germany, is headed to Broadway

April 28, 2023April 30, 2023Jesse Orine

(New York Jewish Week) — Barry Manilow’s “Harmony,” a musical about a real-life performing troupe of Jews and gentiles who combined close harmonies and stage antics in Germany during the 1920s and ’30s, is headed to Broadway. The musical, for which Manilow wrote the songs and his longtime partner, Bruce Sussman, wrote the lyrics, has […]

British Jewish schoolchildren present a new ‘Adon Olam’ for their king’s coronation

April 28, 2023April 28, 2023Jesse Orine

(JTA) — Among the many honors accruing to King Charles III in advance of his coronation next week: a new version of a traditional prayer performed by a British-Jewish children’s choir. United Synagogue, the union of British Orthodox synagogues, commissioned a new recording of “Adon Olam,” a prayer perhaps most recognizable as the conclusion of […]

Adam Brody to star as ‘charming’ rabbi in upcoming Netflix comedy alongside Kristen Bell

April 27, 2023April 27, 2023Jesse Orine

(JTA) — Chrismukkah has come early for Adam Brody fans. Netflix announced on Thursday that the Jewish actor, best known as the geeky heartthrob Seth Cohen on the teen drama “The O.C.” in the mid-2000s, is set to play a “charming rabbi” alongside Kristen Bell in an upcoming comedy. “In the series, Bell plays an […]

German man who was oldest-ever person tried for Nazi crimes has died at 102

April 27, 2023April 27, 2023Jesse Orine

(JTA) — The oldest former Nazi camp guard ever put on trial in Germany has died while waiting for an appeal after being sentenced to five years in prison. He was 102. Josef Schütz was found guilty last year of more than 3,500 counts of accessory to murder for serving as a guard at the […]

Rugby’s governing body ruled that South Africa’s exclusion of Israel was not discrimination. The Israeli team is skeptical.

April 27, 2023Jesse Orine

(JTA) — Rugby’s global governing body has determined that the South African Rugby Union’s decision to disinvite an Israeli team from an international competition last month was not discriminatory. But the CEO of the Israeli team isn’t buying the argument that the cancelation had to do with security threats, as South Africa argued and World […]