Germany’s antisemitism czar has urged a law to ban pro-Palestinian slogans such as “From the river to the sea,” renewing a fraught debate over the country’s historic allegiance to Israel and freedom of speech. Felix Klein’s initiative would ban chants that could be interpreted as calling for Israel’s destruction. His proposal has the support of […]
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TEL AVIV — Judy Chicago may not have been directly involved in organizing two new Tel Aviv exhibits of her work, but the question at the center of one of the shows could not be more relevant amid Israel’s war in Gaza: “What If Women Ruled the World?” That’s the title of the Judy Chicago […]
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A provocative essay collection about the West’s response to the Gaza war and a children’s book about young Iranians helping a Jewish refugee in World War II were two of the big winners at the National Book Awards Wednesday evening. “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” by Egyptian-Canadian journalist and author Omar […]
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Every day, it can seem, brings a fresh headline about how AI chatbots are spreading hateful ideas. But researchers tasked with understanding antisemitism and how it can be stopped say they have found evidence that AI chatbots can actually fight hate. Researchers affiliated with the Anti-Defamation League’s Center for Antisemitism Research trained a large-language model, […]
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A silver Tiffany & Co. menorah from the year 2000. A bronze, 23-inch tall Statue of Liberty menorah made in 1986 in New Jersey by German-born artist Manfred Anson. A silver Hanukkah lamp, inlaid with carnelian stones, that was made in the early 20th century at the Bezalel school in Jerusalem. These are just a […]
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An auction house in Germany canceled the sale of hundreds of items that belonged to Holocaust victims a day before it was set to take place. The Felzmann auction house planned to offer 623 artifacts, including letters from concentration camps and documents detailing Nazi crimes, in the western German city of Neuss on Monday. After […]
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Mexico’s Jewish community has condemned antisemitic graffiti apparently directed toward the country’s Jewish president during an anti-government protest on Saturday. The graffiti painted on the door of the Supreme Court building said “puta judia” or “Jewish whore,” in what has been widely interpreted as a reference to Claudia Sheinbaum. It also included a crossed-out Star […]
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On a frigid winter’s day in 1906, tens of thousands of Jewish parents in New York’s Lower East Side and Brooklyn kept their children home from school. It wasn’t a snow day, but a protest: Activists and the Yiddish press had called for a boycott of the Christmas assemblies and pageants that they knew Jewish […]
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Shalom, investors! The married couple that runs Brooklyn’s popular Jewish-Japanese fusion restaurant Shalom Japan appeared on ABC’s business reality show “Shark Tank” on Wednesday night — and struck a verbal deal with real estate mogul Barbara Corcoran that could result in a freezer-aisle version of a signature dish. Sawako Okochi and Aaron Israel sought $200,000 […]
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The IDF’s chief cantor will be allowed to perform for Hanukkah in Amsterdam’s Royal Concert Hall — but not for everyone — after tensions over Israel ripped through one of the city’s most popular Jewish celebrations. The Royal Concert Hall, or Concertgebouw, last week canceled the performance to be hosted by the Chanukah Concert Foundation […]
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