((JR)) — Jewish day school graduate and actor Ike Barinholtz successfully answered a question about the ancient Roman poet Ovid to win on “Jeopardy!” Monday night, in a rare success for a celebrity during the quiz show’s regular competition. In the program’s Tournament of Champions, Barinholtz defeated two previous winners on the show, an artist […]
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(New York Jewish Week) — When Barry Bernstein, a fictional theater teacher at a Bronx public school, learns the entire budget for the spring musical has been eliminated, he has to figure out a way to raise $10,000 — quickly. But first, Barry pays a routine visit to his elderly grandfather, who tells him, “You […]
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LONDON (JR) — Jewish groups across Britain have voiced concern at the election of a veteran anti-Zionist politician to the U.K. parliament, following a bitterly fought campaign that was dominated by the Israel-Hamas war. George Galloway was elected in the northern town of Rochdale after an election campaign that underscored how the crisis in the Middle […]
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(JR) — Swiss Jews are planning a vigil after a 50-year-old member of the Orthodox community in Zurich was stabbed Saturday night in what police say may be a hate crime. The 50-year-old man who was stabbed is hospitalized after suffering life-threatening wounds, according to Tachles, a Swiss Jewish magazine. A 15-year-old male suspect was arrested […]
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(JR) — Just three weeks after the singer Eden Golan was chosen to represent Israel at Eurovision, her participation in the music competition is in jeopardy because of the song she wants to sing. The European Broadcasting Union, which runs the competition, declined to accept the first song Israel submitted to the contest because of […]
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TIGRE, ARGENTINA (JR) — For the first time in nearly six decades, a Jewish soccer club is competing in an Argentine national soccer tournament. The club, Náutico Hacoaj used its victory in the first round of competition to pay tribute to Israel. The team represents the prominent Hacoaj (“strength” in Hebrew) Jewish community center and […]
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(New York Jewish Week) — Like so many stuck at home during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Marlo Gorelick picked up a new hobby: cake decorating. She learned all the trendy techniques of the day, from of-the-moment decorations to how to properly layer colorful cakes and jams in order to create the all-popular rainbow cake. […]
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (JR) — A Chinese actor who voices a popular children’s cartoon is drawing criticism after he made antisemitic comments on social media. “Jews are all rats and cockroaches. Wherever they stop to rest a moment, they multiply. Dirty as hell,” the actor, Zhang Bingjun, wrote on Weibo, the microblogging site that is one […]
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(New York Jewish Week) — What if the first book of the Hebrew Bible had a female God who created the world — and what if the first human created was a woman, not a man? What if the story of the near sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham was flipped — and a mother was […]
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((JR)) — David Draiman, the Jewish frontman of heavy metal band Disturbed, is raising money to provide private security for Matisyahu after the Jewish reggae singer had two venues cancel on him in the face of pro-Palestinian protests. “I’m raising funds to provide security for our brother @matisyahu,” Draiman, the heavy metal singer, wrote on […]
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