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Netflix’s ‘You People’ wasn’t funny at all to my Black and Mexican Jewish family

February 1, 2023February 1, 2023Jesse Orine

(JTA) — As a couple that is two parts Jew, one part Black, and all parts lovers of comedy, my husband and I sat with hopes (maybe not high ones) to watch Netflix’s “You People.” It’s not often that we see our cultures represented together in buzzy movies, especially not ones set in Los Angeles, […]

British clergyman accused of antisemitism is barred from Church of England through 2030

February 1, 2023February 1, 2023Jesse Orine

(JTA) — Stephen Sizer, a retired British vicar who once claimed Jews and Israel were behind 9/11, was banned from the Anglican ministry for 12 years on Monday. Over the course of more than two decades as priest and academic in southern England, Sizer made a name for himself as an outspoken opponent of Christian […]

France’s updated plan to counter antisemitism will bring students to sites of attacks

February 1, 2023February 1, 2023Jesse Orine

(JTA) — The French government updated its plan for fighting antisemitism and racism, which will require teachers to receive training on the topic and all French schoolchildren to visit the site of an antisemitic or racist incident. Those visits could include Holocaust sites, and roving exhibitions about antisemitism and racism will also be set up […]

Israeli docuseries with never-before-heard confessions from Adolf Eichmann comes to Amazon Prime Video

January 31, 2023January 31, 2023Jesse Orine

(JTA) — Americans subscribed to Amazon Prime Video can now listen to never-before-heard recordings of Adolf Eichmann confessing to his crimes, in his own voice. “The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes” is a three-part documentary series that combines interviews from Holocaust survivors, key witnesses at the Eichmann trial, historians, and experts on the Holocaust […]

‘Emotional and intense’: Douglas Emhoff’s trip to Poland and Germany brings him back to his Jewish ancestral roots

January 31, 2023January 31, 2023Jesse Orine

BERLIN (JTA) — For second gentleman Douglas Emhoff, the final hours of a five-day working trip to Poland and Germany brought everything into focus. It was here in the underground information center in Germany’s central Holocaust memorial that Emhoff sat down with several survivors, including two who had recently fled war-torn Ukraine. Sitting in a […]

A picture book about a heroine of Holocaust memory and 2 fantasy novels top year’s Sydney Taylor Jewish children’s book awards

January 31, 2023January 31, 2023Jesse Orine

(JTA) — An illustrated book about an inspiring Holocaust survivor and two works of fantasy featuring dybbuks and Jewish demons have won this year’s top prizes in Jewish children’s literature. The Sydney Taylor Book Awards are awarded annually to outstanding works of Jewish literature for children, as part of the American Library Association’s youth media awards […]

Germany returns 16th-century sculpture to heirs of Jewish owner

January 31, 2023January 31, 2023Jesse Orine

BERLIN (JTA) — A federal German cultural organization has returned a 16th-century sculpture to the heirs of its pre-war Jewish owner who faced Nazi persecution. The Berlin-based Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, or SPK (for Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz), announced today that the “Maria Lactans” statuette depicting Mary nursing an infant Jesus would be given back to […]

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 […]