Adrien Brody nabbed an Academy Award Sunday for his portrayal of an architect in “The Brutalist,” marking the second Oscar for the Jewish actor. Both awards for best actor in a leading role came for Brody’s portrayal of Holocaust survivors. In 2003, he received the best actor for his performance in “The Pianist,” in which […]
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“No Other Land,” which chronicles Israel’s demolitions in the Palestinian West Bank village of Masafer Yatta, won the Academy Award for best documentary feature. Taking the stage at the Oscars on Sunday night, two of the film’s four co-directors — an Israeli and a Palestinian — used their acceptance speeches to call for Palestinian rights […]
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The joyous Jewish holiday of Purim begins this year on the evening of Thursday, March 13, and and there’s no shortage of festivities in New York City to mark this holiday, which celebrates the triumph of the Jewish Queen Esther and her uncle Mordechai over the evil Haman, advisor to the king of ancient Persia, […]
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WARSAW (JR) — In the center of Poland’s capital, a brick wall separates the humming traffic of Okopowa Street from a quiet wilderness filled with graves. This is Warsaw’s main Jewish cemetery and one of the largest in Europe, a sprawling forest of 83 acres and the final resting place of some 200,000 Jews. Since […]
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Landmarks around the world were illuminated in orange on Wednesday night to honor Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas, the Israeli mother and sons killed in captivity in Gaza. The three were buried on Wednesday, several days after their bodies were returned to Israel. Their husband and father, Yarden Bibas, was taken captive separately and freed […]
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In the two days since Israel joined the United States to vote against a United Nations resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it’s faced more than a little backlash. Now, the country’s foreign minister, Gideon Saar, has said the vote was a bid to align Israel’s stance with the efforts of its closest ally, the […]
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Even as tensions between Israel and Syria ramped up in recent days, a small group of Syrian Jews recently celebrated a milestone that once seemed unthinkable: a return visit to their home country. Under the auspices of the new Syrian government, a small delegation toured Jewish heritage sites in and around Damascus last week, just […]
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Police in Sydney have charged a local nurse in connection with a viral video from earlier this month that appeared to show her and a colleague threatening to kill Israeli patients and boasting about refusing to treat them. Sarah Abu Lebdeh, 26, who worked at Bankstown Hospital, was charged with three offenses: threatening violence; using […]
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“Songs of New York: 100 Years of Imagining the City Through Music,” a new exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York, celebrates a century of New York’s rich musical legacy. The interactive exhibition, which opened this month and is paired with iconic photography from the museum’s collection, spotlights the sounds of New […]
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This month, The New Yorker is marking its 100th anniversary as perhaps the country’s most influential magazine of longform journalism and literary fiction. It has also been a home to pioneering writing by and about Jews. In its early days, under founding editor Harold Ross, the magazine seemed to stand for a certain kind of […]
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