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Mordecai Kaplan wanted Jews to choose Judaism. Why they didn’t was the bane of his life.

April 7, 2026April 7, 2026Jesse Orine

Reconstructionist Judaism, wrote the Jewish sociologist Charles Liebman almost 60 years ago, “comes closer than any other movement or school of thought to articulating the meaning of Judaism for American Jews.” By emphasizing belonging over rote observance, personal fulfillment over inherited obligation, and Jewish “civilization” over theology, Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan’s brainchild seemed poised to capture […]

Iran claims synagogue in Tehran was ‘completely destroyed’ by US-Israeli strike

April 7, 2026April 7, 2026Jesse Orine

Iranian state media claimed on Tuesday that a synagogue in Tehran was “completely destroyed” by a U.S.-Israeli strike. The claim was impossible to verify. Footage of the alleged attack on the Rafi-Niya Synagogue posted online showed open Hebrew prayer books scattered among the rubble of a building. The synagogue was damaged when a nearby residential […]

Attacker killed in gunfight outside closed Israeli consulate in Istanbul

April 7, 2026April 7, 2026Jesse Orine

One attacker was killed and two others injured in a gunfight with police outside the Israeli consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday morning. The consulate has been largely closed since 2023, when the Oct. 7 attack on Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza escalated diplomatic tensions between Turkey and Israel. Turkish authorities said they had […]

Palestinian-French lawmaker arrested after praising 1972 bomber of Ben Gurion Airport

April 6, 2026April 6, 2026Jesse Orine

French police detained Rima Hassan, a member of the European Parliament from France, on suspicion of “advocating for terrorism” after she quoted one of the perpetrators of a 1972 terror attack on an Israeli airport in a social media post. Hassan, 33, was detained for several hours on Thursday by French authorities over a March […]

Israeli, Serbian leaders denounce antisemitic statements at Belgrade protest

April 6, 2026April 6, 2026Jesse Orine

Israeli and Serbian officials are denouncing antisemitic comments made by demonstrators during a clash between Serbian students and police at a protest last week. “Death to Vučić and all the Jews around him,” one protester said in a televised interview, referring to Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić. “Long live Serbia.” The protest last Tuesday marked the […]

Frankfurt cinema declines to participate in Jewish film festival, spurring backlash

April 6, 2026April 6, 2026Jesse Orine

A Frankfurt cinema’s decision not to participate in the local Jewish film festival is spurring allegations of antisemitism, even as its manager says the move was financial. The Jewish Community of Frankfurt announced last week that the Astor Film Lounge did not wish to host movies during Jewish Film Days this year. The cinema, it […]

Sponsors back out of London festival that invited Ye to headline despite record of antisemitism

April 6, 2026April 6, 2026Jesse Orine

A major London music festival is facing a wave of canceled sponsorships as well as criticism from Prime Minister Keir Starmer after after announcing that Ye, the rapper with a record of antisemitism, would be its headliner. Ye, who recently apologized for a years-long spree of antisemitic and Nazi rhetoric, is slated to headline all […]

A lost novel from 1943 predicted the Holocaust. Now, it has been recovered.

April 3, 2026April 3, 2026Jesse Orine

As World War II raged in Europe, Friedrich Torberg, an Austrian Jew who fled for the United States in 1940, imagined what was befalling the Jews he left behind. Torberg recorded his image of a German concentration camp in “Mein ist die Rache,” or “Vengeance is Mine,” a novel published in 1943. It was one […]

Pro-Palestinian rally at Buchenwald memorial is shut down by German authorities

April 2, 2026April 2, 2026Jesse Orine

German authorities have shut down a planned pro-Palestinian vigil at the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp memorial after a fierce outcry. The rally was slated for April 12, marking the 81st anniversary of Buchenwald’s liberation by U.S. troops. But the city of Weimar said on Monday it would ban the event on the memorial grounds and […]

Argentina designates Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization

April 1, 2026April 1, 2026Jesse Orine

Argentina announced on Tuesday that it had designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization, a move that was quickly praised by Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar. The move stems from Argentina’s decades-long investigations into the 1992 bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, which killed 29 and injured more than 200, […]