BERLIN (JR) – A Jewish religious court has convened to hear testimony against a Berlin rabbi who was fired following allegations that he preyed on young women, using religious arguments to lure them into sexual relationships. The beit din, or religious court, of Germany’s Orthodox rabbinical association, the ORD, announced on Monday night that it […]
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(JR) — When the mayor of the British city of Norwich apologized last spring for the historic assault on local Jews that took place nearly 900 years ago, it was hailed as a major step. Now the city could go even farther — by handing its oldest non-church building over to its local Jewish community. […]
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(New York Jewish Week) — After a dozen-plus years in the making, the Catskills Borscht Belt museum is set to open in 2025. But for those who can’t wait another two years, the museum is launching a festival to honor the history and culture of the “Jewish Alps” this summer. The first-ever Borscht Belt Fest […]
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((JR)) — The prolific Jewish actor Ed Asner died nearly two years ago, but his final film will hit select theaters on Friday. In “Tiger Within,” he plays a Holocaust survivor who becomes the unlikely friend of a homeless teenager who was raised by a Holocaust denier. The movie was filmed in the summer of […]
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(JR) — Russia has labeled Pinchas Goldschmidt, the former chief rabbi of Moscow, a “foreign agent” a year after he left the country and refused to pledge his support for the war in Ukraine. The designation cannot be contested in court and bars those assigned it from participating in many aspects of public life in […]
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((JR)) – The Tel Aviv Museum of Art has canceled a conference it was due to host with Christie’s — the latest fallout from the auction house’s recent sale of jewelry with links to the Nazis. The December conference was meant to cap a yearlong series by Christie’s celebrating the 25th anniversary of an agreement […]
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(JR) — A Holocaust memorial in a suburb of Paris was defaced late last week amid widespread protests of the police killing of a French teen. The memorial in Nanterre — the inner-ring suburb where the teen, who has been identified only as Nahel, lived with his family — was spray-painted with anti-police slogans on […]
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((JR)) — In next week’s episode of Hulu’s reality series “The Kardashians,” Kim Kardashian cries about the antisemitic behavior of her ex-husband Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, last year. In a teaser for that episode, which was included at the end of the current season’s sixth episode that aired Thursday, her sister Khloé comforts […]
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There are some light spoilers for “The Bear” in this article. ((JR)) — “The Bear,” FX and Hulu’s drama series about the behind-the-scenes workings of a Chicago restaurant, has been one of TV’s most acclaimed series since debuting last year. The first episode of its second season, which debuted June 22, brought up a controversial […]
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((JR)) — Alan Arkin knew he was going to be an actor from the age of five. “Every film I saw, every play, every piece of music fed an unquenchable need to turn myself into something other than what I was,” he wrote in his 2011 memoir, “An Improvised Life.” What he was was the […]
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