TEL AVIV — People in Israel and across the world have pledged to wear orange on Wednesday, in homage to the hair color of the last two young children still held hostage in Gaza. “Orange Day,” in honor of Kfir and Ariel Bibas and their parents, Shiri and Yarden, is just the latest activist initiative […]
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For the first time in 25 years, the works of famed Jewish expressionist painter Ben-Zion Weinman will be shown in a solo exhibition in Brooklyn. Weinman, known simply by the mononym “Ben-Zion,” was a founding member of “The Ten,” a group founded in 1935 to draw attention to a group of Jewish American artists — […]
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BERLIN — Several years ago, the newspaper where I am an editor in Germany made an unusual decision: We would not interview any politicians associated with Alternative for Germany, a political party that was then merely on the far-right fringe of public opinion. It wasn’t a choice we took lightly. The Jüdische Allgemeine is the […]
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An assistant director for a Canadian pro-Israel media watchdog group is facing 17 criminal charges in connection with a string of profane anti-Palestinian graffiti that included the phrase “F— Gaza.” Robert Walker, 39, remains employed by Honest Reporting Canada months after his November arrest. The organization, which is headquartered in Toronto, has not made any […]
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As the world marks 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, one of Germany’s most prominent Holocaust scholars says twisting the facts about the Nazi extermination of 6 million Jews is far more harmful than outright denial — and that such distortion is “a stepping stone from antisemitism into the mainstream.” Kathrin Meyer, secretary-general of […]
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A parade of dignitaries and dozens of Holocaust survivors came to Oświęcim on Monday to pay tribute to the 1 million Jews who died there. Some of them encountered the single Jew who lives there. Hila Weisz-Gut, 34, moved from Israel to Oświęcim, the Polish town where the Auschwitz memorial and museum is located, in […]
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It’s happening — just like our colleagues at Hey Alma said it would. After teasing on social media last week that “we’re reuniting for something iconic,” actors Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan — stars of the enduring 1989 rom-com “When Harry Met Sally” — will once again convene at the Lower East Side’s Katz’s Deli. […]
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By day, sisters Molly and Clara appear to be modern-day New Yorkers, living in an indie cinema that was once home to a Yiddish theater. At night, they transform into estries — owl-like women vampires who prey on men. Molly and Clara — whose alter egos are based on figures from Jewish lore — are […]
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A Holocaust memorial ceremony in Dublin was disrupted after Jewish attendees were forced to leave for protesting Irish President Michael Higgins’ remarks about Gaza. In his speech, Higgins commemorated the Holocaust and lamented Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel as well as the civilian death toll in Gaza. He also wished for an end […]
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Days after stoking controversy by delivering what some believed to be a Nazi salute and making Holocaust jokes, Elon Musk appeared at a campaign rally for a far-right German political party to tell supporters to be proud of their heritage. Musk’s appearance Saturday at the rally for Alternative for Germany, known as AfD, was unadvertised […]
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