(New York Jewish Week) — When Elke Reva Sudin got married 16 years ago, she was a 20-year-old art school student at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. She wanted to figure out a way to cover her hair — a traditional practice among Orthodox Jewish women — while still being true to herself. So instead […]
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((JR)) — Organizers of an Israeli film festival in Barcelona say they have been forced to change locations at the last minute because of harassment directed at the theater that was slated to host the event. The Seret Film Festival, which has hosted a series of events around the world, will be moving forward in […]
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(JR) — A rabbi at several British universities who drew hundreds of death threats after flying to Israel to serve as a reserve soldier after Oct. 7 is now in hiding with his wife and two children on the recommendation of police. Both the University of Leeds and British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis have condemned […]
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(JR) — The top rights court in Europe has ruled that bans of ritual slaughter in parts of Belgium can stand, ending the hopes of Jewish advocates who had said the bans were an unfair infringement on Jewish practice. Two of Belgium’s three regions banned slaughter without stunning in 2017 and 2018, saying that the […]
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(JR) — The head rabbi of Britain’s Masorti movement published a statement Tuesday opposing a threatened Israel invasion of Rafah in southern Gaza and urging “another, political, path forward.” The statement makes Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg possibly the highest-profile European Jewish leader to express misgivings about Israel’s war in Gaza since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on […]
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(New York Jewish Week) – For his very first runway show under his own label for New York Fashion Week, Israeli designer Kobi Halperin knew exactly the message he wanted to send: hope. On Sunday, Halperin concluded his show at Soho’s Splashlight Studios for his Fall 2024 collection, titled “Illumination of Hope,” with an instrumental […]
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((JR)) — Was the first antisemitism-themed ad to air at the Super Bowl tactful or tasteless? How much did it have to do with Israel? And what is “Jewish hate,” anyway? Those are some of the questions that have arisen after the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism, the group founded in 2019 by New England Patriots owner […]
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(JR) — A London theater has apologized after a performer allegedly singled out an Israeli audience member who refused to applaud a Palestinian flag during a comedy set on Saturday night. Comedian Paul Currie also riled up his audience to shout “Free Palestine” and “Get out” as multiple Jewish audience members exited, according to an […]
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(New York Jewish Week) — Hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators protested inside the Museum of Modern Art on Saturday to demand “a free Palestine and an art world without Zionism.” Footage on Instagram showed demonstrators crowding into the museum’s lobby, chanting “Free Palestine,” and hanging banners that said “Ceasefire now” and “Free Palestine from the river […]
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(JR) — In December 1941, a petite, elegant woman left her home in Eastern Galicia, where she was known as the Jewish mathematician Janina Spinner Mehlberg. Three days later, she arrived in Lublin — soon to be an epicenter of Nazi extermination in occupied Poland — with a new identity. She was now Countess Janina […]
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