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World leaders mourn Israeli victims and call for a ceasefire on anniversary of Oct. 7 attack

October 8, 2024October 8, 2024Jesse Orine

(JR) — Days after calling for a halt in arms shipments to Israel and earning a public rebuke from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, French President Emmanuel Macron expressed his solidarity with “the pain of the Israeli people” on social media and met with the families of French hostages being held by Hamas. More than […]

Twenty years in, this Jewish prize has turbocharged the work of a few remarkable humanitarians

October 8, 2024October 8, 2024Jesse Orine

NEW YORK — When Sasha Chanoff received the $100,000 Charles Bronfman Prize in 2010 for his work helping refugees worldwide find safe haven, jobs and social stability, he used the occasion of the awards ceremony in New York to introduce a family that his organization had helped reunite. The emotional event sparked a turning […]

Jewish Broadway stars surprise NY congregation with a rendition of ‘Seasons of Love’ during Rosh Hashanah services

October 7, 2024October 7, 2024Jesse Orine

Park Avenue Synagogue introduced a new practice during Rosh Hashanah to mark the end of a Jewish year that included the Hamas attacks of Oct. 7 and the war and turmoil that has followed: A cohort of Broadway performers sang “Seasons of Love” from the popular rock musical “Rent” on the bimah. The performance took […]

A year in photos: How Oct. 7 caused turmoil and connection on New York City’s streets

October 6, 2024October 6, 2024Jesse Orine

This photo essay is part of a series examining how Oct. 7 and its aftermath have changed the Jewish world. You can see the complete project here. On Oct. 7, as news of Hamas’ invasion of Israel plunged Jews everywhere into shock and mourning, two rallies were called for midtown Manhattan for the next day. […]

A year after Oct. 7, we Jews remain shattered

October 6, 2024October 6, 2024Jesse Orine

This article is part of a series examining how Oct. 7 and its aftermath have changed the Jewish world. You can see the complete project here. We’ve shed endless tears; we’ve hardened our hearts. We’ve stepped back; we’ve leaned in. We’ve silenced ourselves; we’ve spoken louder than ever. We’ve put on kippahs; we’ve taken down mezuzahs. We’ve […]

‘White Bird’ stars Helen Mirren as a Holocaust survivor who teaches her grandson about kindness

October 4, 2024October 4, 2024Jesse Orine

((JR)) — In “White Bird,” a long anticipated film about a Jewish girl who is rescued by her classmate in Nazi-occupied France, the Holocaust is fertile ground for teaching children how to be good. The movie is a spinoff of “Wonder” (2017), a modern-day story about a middle schooler seeking to fit in despite his […]

How Harlem Globetrotters founder Abe Saperstein shaped basketball as we know it today

October 3, 2024October 3, 2024Jesse Orine

When basketball superstar Stephen Curry sunk a series of three-point shots to help Team USA clinch the Olympic gold medal in Paris this summer, it’s unlikely the four-time NBA champion was thinking about Abe Saperstein. But as a new biography of the trailblazing Jewish basketball executive suggests, Curry had plenty of reasons to be grateful […]

Shofars blown along Ukrainian frontlines as part of Rosh Hashanah initiative for soldiers

October 2, 2024October 2, 2024Jesse Orine

KYIV, Ukraine — For the first time since Ukraine was plunged into war in 2022, soldiers on the front lines could hear the blast of the shofar marking the Jewish new year. The largest Jewish communal body in the country distributed shofars to Jewish soldiers stationed in dozens of military positions along the 620 miles […]

What we talk about when we talk about ‘Zionism’: A roundtable

October 2, 2024October 2, 2024Jesse Orine

This article is part of a project examining how Oct. 7 and its aftermath have changed the Jewish world. You can see the complete project here. ((JR)) — Dictionaries are remarkably consistent when it comes to the definition of “Zionism”: Merriam-Webster, for example, defines the term as “an international movement originally for the establishment of a […]

‘Devastating,’ ‘difficult,’ ‘depressing’: JTA readers on their year since Oct. 7, in one word

October 2, 2024October 2, 2024Jesse Orine

This article is part of a series examining how Oct. 7 and its aftermath have changed the Jewish world. You can see the complete project here. More than 700 readers responded to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s survey asking about what has changed in their lives over the last year. In extended comments, they described wrenching […]