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Jewish man arrested for allegedly firing pellet gun at left-wing activists in Rome

April 30, 2026April 30, 2026Jesse Orine

Italian Jewish leaders are condemning the alleged acts of Jewish man who was arrested this week after police said he fired a pellet gun at participants in a parade marking Italy’s Liberation Day from Nazism and fascism. Eitan Bondì, 21, was charged with attempted homicide in connection to the shooting of Rossana Gabrieli and Nicola […]

British police pledge £25M for Jewish security in wake of Golders Green stabbing

April 30, 2026May 1, 2026Jesse Orine

British police have allocated 25 million pounds, or about $33 million, in new funding to keep Jewish communities safe, officials announced on Thursday. The announcement came a day after a stabbing in the Orthodox neighborhood of Golders Green left two men injured and a community reeling. The stabbing has been ruled a terrorist attack. “There’s […]

This Jewish feminist has been the NYC’s sanitation department’s official artist for 50 years. A new movie tells her story.

April 29, 2026April 29, 2026Jesse Orine

In 1976, deep in New York City’s fiscal crisis, the artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles read a review of her conceptual work in the Village Voice. In his review, critic David Bourdon made a radical suggestion inspired by Ukeles’ thesis: What if municipal work, like the Sanitation Department, were conceptual art? Could it get funded by […]

A musicians boycott of Israel leaves teens feeling isolated — and defiant

April 29, 2026April 29, 2026Jesse Orine

This article was produced as part of (JR)’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. The first time 14-year-old Matan Stein, an avid contemporary music fan in Israel, tried to play one of his favorite songs and nothing happened, he was confused. […]

2 Jewish men stabbed in London, in attack British PM Keir Starmer calls ‘utterly appalling’

April 29, 2026April 29, 2026Jesse Orine

Two Jewish men were stabbed on the street in a heavily Orthodox neighborhood of London on Wednesday, escalating anxieties amid ongoing incidents targeting local Jews that police say reflect Iranian involvement. A man was arrested at the scene in Golders Green after being apprehended first by members of the Shomrim, a Jewish security force that […]

J.D. Salinger asked publishers to remove references to his Jewish heritage, newly surfaced letters reveal

April 28, 2026April 28, 2026Jesse Orine

Acclaimed author J.D. Salinger asked his publisher to remove references to his Jewish heritage in the book jacket of “The Catcher in the Rye,” newly surfaced letters from 1951 reveal. The request came in a letter from Salinger, a notoriously private man, and his editor, John Woodburn at publisher Little, Brown and Co. The correspondence, […]

Ukraine threatens sanctions against Israel for buying ‘stolen’ grain from Russia

April 28, 2026April 28, 2026Jesse Orine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Israel on Tuesday of purchasing grain “stolen” by Russia from occupied Ukrainian territory, and said Ukraine could impose sanctions in response. “In any normal country, purchasing stolen goods is an act that entails legal liability,” Zelensky wrote in a post on X. “This applies, in particular, to grain stolen by […]

A suspect is charged in one of Toronto’s Jewish shootings — but the bigger picture remains murky

April 28, 2026April 28, 2026Jesse Orine

TORONTO — After a man riddled a Jewish-owned restaurant with bullets in uptown Toronto, police accomplished something earlier this month that they hadn’t done following previous attacks on Jewish sites: identify and charge a suspect. The 35-year-old suspect, Mohamed Mahdi, was arrested just a few days after the April 3 attack and charged with on multiple […]

Concert to benefit Bondi Beach victims canceled after Greek choir refuses to sing with Jews

April 27, 2026April 28, 2026Jesse Orine

A concert to raise money for the victims of the shooting attack on a Hanukkah party on Sydney’s Bondi Beach has been canceled after the Greek choir that was to take part voted not to sing with a Jewish choir. A majority of members of the 50-member Australian Hellenic Choir “politically objected” to singing alongside […]

Venice Biennale jury won’t consider countries whose leaders face ICC charges, putting Israel out of contention

April 27, 2026April 27, 2026Jesse Orine

A five-person international jury at the Venice Biennale says it will no longer consider entries from Israel or Russia in its award deliberations — though it didn’t name either country in its announcement. The jury announced its decision in the online arts publishing platform e-flux last week. In a statement, the jury explained that it […]