The University of Amsterdam has suspended a student exchange with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, saying the institution has failed to distance itself from human rights violations in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas war. The Dutch university announced last week that it was cutting the program following advice from an internal committee on projects with its […]
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A growing number of participants in the Israeli government’s upcoming conference on combating antisemitism have dropped out, citing the proliferation of far-right politicians on the docket. The dropouts include German officials, the British chief rabbi and one of France’s leading public intellectuals. In response, at least one prominent participant has announced that he still plans […]
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As a scholar who studies Jewish languages, I have collected countless examples of Jews around the world using variants of the Hebrew word “shalom” to mean peace – and, by extension, to offer peaceful greeting and parting words. Yiddish speakers greet each other with “sholem aleichem” and Juhuri speakers (from Azerbaijan) with “sholumi.” American Jewish […]
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His name is Max Cohen, but to his 200,000 followers on TikTok and Instagram, the 24-year-old content creator is better known as Murray Hill Boy. Cohen is making a name for himself on social media by humorously sending up Jewish scenes and stereotypes, making funny videos about how Jewish moms place their bagel orders, what […]
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John Catsimatidis, the owner of New York conservative talk radio stronghold WABC, has vowed to fire his newest star, Anthony Cumia, if he says anything antisemitic on air. Catsimatidis, a billionaire supermarket mogul and former Republican candidate for mayor, made the pledge in response to a Jewish Telegraphic Agency article about Cumia’s history of antisemitic […]
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At first glance, when police discovered a camper vehicle packed with explosives and containing a list of Jewish targets near Sydney, Australia on Jan. 19, it appeared that they had foiled an unprecedented antisemitic terror plot. Indeed, police led the public to believe that’s what had happened, an impression that was maintained for weeks. In […]
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There’s an ignoble tradition of falsified memoirs. “The Hitler Diaries,” a forgery published in 1983, fooled even a Hitler expert. “Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years,” published in 1997, was sold as a survivor’s testimony but turned out to be a hoax (the part where the author was raised by wolves might have been […]
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(JR) — An Oscar for “A Real Pain” wasn’t Jesse Eisenberg’s only win this week — he also received citizenship in Poland, where he filmed the movie about reckoning with one’s family’s Holocaust history. Polish president Andrzej Duda handed citizenship to Eisenberg at a ceremony in New York on Tuesday. “I am pleased that people […]
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The BDS movement and Israel’s right-wing culture minister agree on one thing: “No Other Land,” the Israeli-Palestinian documentary that just won the Oscar for best documentary, is anathema. One says the movie is a smear on Israel. The other says it subtly works to perpetuate Israeli crimes. And those two campaigns against the film have […]
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When Haroun got the phone call he had been waiting on for almost 10 years, he told the caller to hang up. It was too risky for a Jew in Iran to take such a call — authorities could be monitoring his phone. “Call me back on WhatsApp,” he said, putting faith in the messaging […]
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