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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 […]

A brand-new Jewish ritual object inspires an innovative art exhibit

January 25, 2023January 25, 2023Jesse Orine

(New York Jewish Week) — When Andrew Mandel dreamt up a new Jewish ritual object known as a “tzedek box,” he was admittedly most interested in the “tzedek” — the social justice — aspect, and less so the “box” part. Mandel, a fifth-year rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College in New York, envisioned a new Jewish holiday, […]

Doug Emhoff will visit Oskar Schindler’s factory during Poland and Germany visit

January 25, 2023January 25, 2023Jesse Orine

(JTA) — Doug Emhoff’s itinerary on an upcoming trip to Poland and Germany includes a stop at the factory where Oskar Schindler saved over 1,000 Jews, a Shabbat dinner with local Jewish leaders and a visit to a United Nations center housing refugees from Ukraine. Senior administration officials outlined the trip’s details in a call […]

In the Netherlands, a majority do not know the Holocaust affected their country

January 25, 2023January 25, 2023Jesse Orine

(JTA) — A recent study of the Dutch population conducted by the Conference of Jewish Material Claims Against Germany showed an alarming lack of education around the Holocaust in the Netherlands. For one, a majority of Dutch respondents, across all age groups, did not cite their own country as a place where the Holocaust took […]

Spielberg’s ‘Fabelmans’ earns 7 Oscar nods, WWI epic with anti-Nazi past gets 9

January 24, 2023Jesse Orine

(JTA) – “The Fabelmans,” Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical drama about his Jewish upbringing, had an expected strong haul of Oscar nominations, picking up seven nods Tuesday morning. A remake of a movie once targeted by the Nazis, a blockbuster embroiled in a lawsuit with an Israeli family and a documentary by the program director of the […]

Grigory Kanovich, award-winning author who chronicled Lithuanian Jewry, dies at 93

January 23, 2023January 23, 2023Jesse Orine

(JTA) — Grigory Kanovich, a Lithuanian-born Jew and award winning author who endeavored to tell the story of his people despite Soviet pressure, died on Friday at 93 in his home in Tel Aviv. Kanovich’s repertoire includes more than 30 plays and screenplays, a dozen novels and several collections of poems and short stories, almost […]

A London museum is seeking David Bowie’s dress for an exhibit on Jews in the UK fashion industry

January 23, 2023January 23, 2023Jesse Orine

(JTA) — David Bowie, Greta Garbo and Sean Connery were not Jewish. But some of the garments they made famous — Bowie’s dresses, Garbo’s hats and the tuxedo Connery donned as James Bond — all had Jewish creators. A London Museum is trying to gather some of those pieces of clothing for an exhibit on […]

Broadway stars to perform songs written during the Holocaust at Carnegie Hall

January 23, 2023January 23, 2023Jesse Orine

(New York Jewish Week) — More than a dozen songs written by Jews imprisoned in concentration camps and ghettos during the Holocaust will be brought to life at Carnegie Hall next week as part of a commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Featuring Broadway bigwigs and performers such as Harvey Fierstein, Chita Rivera, Mikhl Yashinsky […]

Holocaust ‘Book of Names’ to be inaugurated at the UN underscores the individual identities of the 6 million

January 23, 2023January 23, 2023Jesse Orine

When Yad Vashem was created in 1953 on the slopes of Jerusalem’s Mount of Remembrance to commemorate the Holocaust, its founders understood that one of the central functions of the institution would be to document the names of the 6 million Jewish victims. It was seen as a moral imperative: to demonstrate that behind the […]