(New York Jewish Week) — When disability activist Lily Brasch was asked if she would walk the runway as a model for New York Fashion Week, she didn’t know if she would be able to do it. That’s not because she has a rare form of muscular dystrophy, which weakens muscles and limits her ability […]
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(JTA) — Police say arson may be behind two fires at a Jewish camp in a village near Ottawa. Firefighters were battling a blaze before dawn on Sunday at one building at Camp B’nai B’rith in Pontiac, Quebec, when another building burst into flames, CTV News reported. A police statement said the damage rant to […]
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(New York Jewish Week) — In 1955, a group of musicians gathered in a Manhattan recording studio and committed to tape 16 tunes. When the LP, “Tanz,” was released the following year, it barely made a splash. Over the years, however, the recording would gain a reputation as a landmark klezmer album, years before the klezmer […]
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(JTA) — A Polish priest with a long track record of antisemitic comments has been sentenced to community service after being convicted of insulting Jews and inciting hatred against them, in what his critics say is a landmark case. Father Michał Woźnicki, a Catholic priest from the city of Poznan, must perform 30 hours of […]
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This article was sent as a newsletter. Sign up for our weekly Jewish sports newsletter here. Happy Friday, Jewish Sport Report readers! And it’s a happy Friday indeed, because baseball season is upon us. Pitchers and catchers report to spring training next week, the games begin Feb. 24 and the 2023 World Baseball Classic is […]
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(JTA) — When people enter the world of “Hogwarts Legacy,” the blockbuster video game that was officially released on Friday, they will find themselves immersed in the fictional universe of “Harry Potter” — and face-to-face with an alleged antisemitic caricature. The narrative of the game centers on a goblin rebellion in the 1890s, about a […]
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MADRID (JTA) — When one puerta closes, another puerta opens — or at least that’s how Tel Aviv may be feeling, after Madrid offered to replace Barcelona as its Spanish twin city. Barcelona’s mayor, Ada Colau, cut ties with Tel Aviv on Wednesday, citing what she said was “apartheid” in Israel. On Thursday, Madrid’s mayor, […]
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(JTA) — The fate of Saul Cenudioglu, the president of the small Jewish community in Antakya, remains unknown, while his wife Fortuna was confirmed dead Thursday morning after an Israeli search team pulled her body from the wreckage of their apartment building. The two were believed to have been buried when their building collapsed in […]
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MADRID (JTA) — Archaeologists working in a town in southwestern Spain have excavated a 14th-century Sephardic synagogue, revealing a fully intact floor plan including a women’s section and ritual baths. The synagogue complex in Utrera, in the province of Seville, is believed to be among the largest ever found on the Iberian Peninsula from the […]
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BERLIN (JTA) — Second gentleman Douglas Emhoff made headlines late last month during a trip to Europe, where he met with other foreign leaders working to combat antisemitism and returned to his ancestors’ town in Poland. But the trip was originally Deborah Lipstadt’s mission. The historian, an authority on Holocaust issues and now the U.S. […]
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