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Polish-Jewish group releases antisemitism report that shows steep increase in incidents compared to EU tally

April 24, 2023April 24, 2023Jesse Orine

WARSAW (JTA) — A Jewish association has released what is being called the first report on antisemitism conducted with direct input from Polish Jewish community organizations, counting 488 incidents in 2022 submitted via an online portal and collected through extensive interviews with community members. The incident total released on Monday by the Czulent Jewish Association […]

UK Labour party suspends senior lawmaker Diane Abbott over comment about Jews and racism

April 24, 2023April 24, 2023Jesse Orine

(JTA) — Britain’s Labour Party suspended senior lawmaker Diane Abbott for writing in a letter that Jews, Irish and Traveller people “experience prejudice” but “are not all their lives subject to racism.” Abbott, 69, who has represented a London constituency in parliament since 1987, wrote a letter to the editor of the Observer, a Sunday […]

Netflix’s ‘Rough Diamonds’ brings viewers into the drama of Antwerp’s Orthodox diamond district

April 23, 2023April 23, 2023Jesse Orine

(JTA) — A new drama on Netflix centered on a haredi Orthodox family that runs a business in Antwerp’s famed diamond district hit the platform on Friday and is drawing comparisons to the hit Israeli series “Shtisel.” “Rough Diamonds,” a joint production from Israel’s Keshet International and Belgium’s De Mensen, follows the Wolfson family as […]

The fuzzy, neurotic, unmistakably Jewish legacy of cartoonist Ed Koren

April 23, 2023April 23, 2023Jesse Orine

(JTA) — The other day I was in a kosher Chinese restaurant and I noticed an older white guy happily eating alone. He had white shaggy beard and white shaggy hair tucked under a ball cap reading “You had me at coffee.” He looked like a former City College professor who was thoroughly enjoying his […]

Jewish Yankee Harrison Bader talks baseball over matzah ball soup and pastrami at Liebman’s Deli

April 21, 2023April 25, 2023Jesse Orine

(New York Jewish Week) — What better way to recover from an injury than some Jewish penicillin? New York Yankees Jewish outfielder Harrison Bader, who is missing the beginning of the 2023 MLB season due to an oblique muscle injury, starred in a recent episode of “Home Plate: New York,” a program hosted by celebrity […]

In Germany, a new group reflects a schism among liberal Jewish congregations

April 21, 2023April 21, 2023Jesse Orine

(JTA) — A new association of egalitarian Jewish congregations has launched in Germany, in the latest consequence of a scandal that has been unfolding within German Judaism for nearly a year. The Jewish-Liberal Egalitarian Union, or JLEV according to its German acronym, marks a split with the existing body representing liberal Judaism in Germany, the Union of […]

‘A Series Of Unfortunate Events’ author to write horror film based on the Golem of Prague

April 21, 2023April 21, 2023Jesse Orine

(JTA) — The Jewish author of best-selling children’s book series “A Series of Unfortunate Events” has been tapped to write a horror film based on the legend of the Golem of Prague. Daniel Handler, known by his pen name “Lemony Snicket,” will write the movie for independent Jewish production company Leviathan Productions, from veteran film […]

Paris court gives 1980 synagogue bomber life sentence

April 21, 2023April 21, 2023Jesse Orine

PARIS (JTA) — Over 42 years after a bomb killed four and injured dozens outside the Rue Copernic synagogue, a court here has convicted a Lebanese-Canadian academic of the crime and given him a life sentence. Hassan Diab, now a Canadian citizen, was convicted in absentia on Friday after more than a decade of start […]

Why are there so many Jewish sports halls of fame?

April 21, 2023April 21, 2023Jesse Orine

(JTA) — On one wall of the dining hall at the Indiana University Hillel sit 36 framed photographs of Jewish alumni who have made an impact in the sports industry, from athletes to executives. It’s the IU Jewish Sports Wall of Fame. One of those pictures is of Josh Rawitch, who has had a long […]

This Jewish couple ended their three-country wedding tour with a colorful Oaxacan ceremony

April 21, 2023April 25, 2023Jesse Orine

(JTA) — For the third of their three weddings, Hallie Applebaum and Elan Raffel set up a chuppah in Oaxaca, the Mexican city where they first confessed their love for each other. Oaxaca is a vibrant hub of Mexican folk art and incredible food, but Jewish life? Not so much. Nonetheless the couple chose there […]