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After I stopped an attack on the subway, the victim and I bonded over Katz’s pastrami sandwiches

January 30, 2023January 30, 2023Jesse Orine

(New York Jewish Week) — You definitely don’t want to have what she was having at that moment. It was December, on a Friday. I was in the tunnel that leads to the subway that runs beneath the American Museum of Natural History on West 81st St. Walking just ahead of me were two women, […]

Muslim man postpones Torah burning protest outside of Israeli embassy in Sweden

January 30, 2023January 30, 2023Jesse Orine

(JTA) — A Muslim man put off a protest that would have involved burning a Torah scroll in front of Stockholm’s Israeli embassy this past weekend. The man, identified in reports only as a 34-year-old Egyptian writer living in Sweden, had reportedly received approval from Swedish authorities for the protest, which would have come in […]

Netflix’s ‘You People’ digs into Black-Jewish relations. It also plays a Kanye West song, twice.

January 28, 2023Jesse Orine

(JTA) – The new Netflix comedy “You People,” about an uneasy union between a Jewish man and a Black woman in Los Angeles, was always aiming to provoke its audience. “I feel like the movie has something to say,” producer Kevin Misher told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “It allows different sides to evolve and understand […]

The Jewish Sport Report: Orthodox NBA prospect Ryan Turell’s New York homecoming

January 27, 2023January 27, 2023Jesse Orine

This article was sent as a newsletter. Sign up for our weekly Jewish sports newsletter here. Happy Friday, sports fans! The NBA trade deadline is Feb. 9, which means the deals will start rolling any minute. The Washington Wizards made a significant move this week, trading forward Rui Hachimura to the Los Angeles Lakers on […]

Pop artist paints ‘Simpsons’ characters as Holocaust victims outside Milan Holocaust memorial

January 27, 2023Jesse Orine

(JTA) — Just before International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Milan’s Holocaust memorial debuted an eye-grabbing new addition on some of its exterior walls: murals of characters from “The Simpsons” dressed as Jews under Nazi rule. But the Shoah Memorial Foundation said the well-known Italian pop artist who painted the murals didn’t reach out before creating the series […]

A New York celebration of Ladino aims to bust the myth that the Judeo-Spanish language is dead

January 27, 2023January 27, 2023Jesse Orine

(New York Jewish Week) — The sixth annual New York Ladino Day — which aims to celebrate and elevate Ladino culture in New York and throughout the world — will take place this Sunday at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan. For the first time since the pandemic, the program will be conducted in […]

European Jewish student group sues Twitter over its handling of antisemitism and Holocaust denial

January 27, 2023January 27, 2023Jesse Orine

BERLIN (JTA) – Europe’s main Jewish student organization is fed up with the antisemitism, Holocaust denial and other hate speech burgeoning on Twitter — so they are taking the social media company to court. The Brussels-based European Union of Jewish Students and the Berlin-based HateAid non-profit group on Wednesday announced they have sued Twitter in […]

A new portrait collection showcases 90 Holocaust survivors who lived long and full lives

January 26, 2023January 26, 2023Jesse Orine

(JTA) — Werner Reich had his opening line ready when he sat down for B.A. Van Sise to take his portrait. “Before I could say anything, he said, ‘Everybody comes to me and they want me to talk about the Holocaust. What am I supposed to say? I went to Auschwitz. It was lousy,’” Van […]

In speech to EU parliament, Israel’s president says criticism is OK, but questioning Israel’s existence is not

January 26, 2023January 26, 2023Jesse Orine

(JTA) — In a speech to the European Union parliament tied to commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israeli President Isaac Herzog said that criticism of his country, which has drawn renewed international scrutiny over its new right-wing government, is legitimate. Questioning Israel’s right to exist, he added, is “antisemitism in the full sense of the […]

Germany’s liberal rabbinical association expels rabbi at center of sweeping scandal

January 26, 2023January 26, 2023Jesse Orine

BERLIN (JTA) – The embattled Rabbi Walter Homolka, accused of abuse of power at the liberal rabbinical seminary he founded, has suffered yet another consequence: expulsion from Germany’s liberal rabbinical association. The expulsion does not affect any work that Homolka might do as a rabbi or professor in Germany or beyond. But it strips him […]