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10 Jewish ways to mark Martin Luther King Day in New York this year

January 11, 2024January 11, 2024Jesse Orine

(New York Jewish Week) – This weekend, communities around the United States will celebrate the life and legacy of civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Here in New York City, Jewish communities will honor King by hosting interfaith Shabbat dinners and discussions about social justice, as well as providing community service opportunities and […]

The Jewish team behind the classic comedy ‘Airplane!’ explains how it got off the ground

January 11, 2024January 11, 2024Jesse Orine

((JR)) — Growing up in Milwaukee in the 1950s, brothers David and Jerry Zucker entertained themselves by performing skits for their family during Hanukkah parties. In a recent conversation, David downplayed the skits’ significance, noting that they were “really just pre-9-year-old stuff,” but the younger Jerry had fonder memories of their performances. “I’m not sure […]

This 1939 movie filmed in the Bronx captures a lost Yiddish world

January 10, 2024January 10, 2024Jesse Orine

(New York Jewish Week) — The New York Jewish Film Festival, which this year begins on Wednesday evening, is offering moviegoers an opportunity to travel back in time to experience a New York Jewish world of yesteryear. “Mothers of Today,” a 1939 Yiddish-language feature that was filmed in the Bronx in just five days, will […]

Gabriel Attal, France’s new prime minister, says his Jewish ancestry has shaped him

January 9, 2024January 9, 2024Jesse Orine

(JR) — France’s newest prime minister is getting attention for the two firsts he brings to the job: Gabriel Attal, at 34, is the country’s youngest ever prime minister, and its first to be openly gay. He says another facet of his identity also shapes him: His late father’s Jewishness. Attal’s mother raised him and […]

Why Golden Globes attendees are wearing yellow ribbon pins at the 2024 awards ceremony

January 7, 2024January 7, 2024Jesse Orine

((JR)) — One of the movies up for best picture at the 2024 Golden Globes awards is about the Holocaust. One of the most notable displays during the ceremony alludes to a current attack on Jews. In the lead-up to the awards ceremony Sunday night, advocates for Israeli hostages in Gaza worked to supply attendees […]

The real story behind ‘One Life,’ the movie starring Anthony Hopkins as Nicholas Winton, who rescued Jewish children from the Nazis

January 5, 2024January 5, 2024Jesse Orine

((JR)) — In a 1988 episode of the British television show “That’s Life,” British stockbroker Nicholas Winton was invited to sit in the audience as host Esther Rantzen dramatically revealed to him that the entire crowd was composed of the Jewish children — now adults — he had saved during the Holocaust. That tear-jerking clip […]

The real story behind ‘One Life,’ the movie starring Anthony Hopkins as Nicholas Winton, who rescued Jewish children from the Nazis

January 5, 2024January 10, 2024Jesse Orine

((JR)) — In a 1988 episode of the British television show “That’s Life,” British stockbroker Nicholas Winton was invited to sit in the audience as host Esther Rantzen dramatically revealed to him that the entire crowd was composed of the Jewish children — now adults — he had saved during the Holocaust. That tear-jerking clip […]

At the Jewish Museum, gut-wrenching drawings depict the terror of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel

January 5, 2024January 5, 2024Jesse Orine

(New York Jewish Week) — A family of ashen, burned bodies sit around their kitchen table, their expressions frozen in terror — hands pressed against gaping mouths, silently screaming. An elderly couple, hands bound in rope behind their backs, embraces as blood pools around them and flames lick at their feet. A mother grips her son […]

Jewish teens in South Africa, where crime and Israel criticism are sky-high, see little future at home

January 5, 2024January 5, 2024Jesse Orine

This article was produced as part of JR’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. (JR) — When she was in sixth grade, Kiara Cohen decided she was going to leave South Africa. At a Shabbat gathering held by the youth organization […]

Holocaust survivor who became a bat mitzvah at 91 dies in Buenos Aires

January 4, 2024January 4, 2024Jesse Orine

BUENOS AIRES (JR) — Eugenia Unger, a Holocaust survivor and one of the founding members of the Holocaust Museum of Buenos Aires in 2000, died Dec. 19 in a private hospital in Buenos Aires. She was 97. In 2017, after decades in which she shared her experiences of surviving the Majdanek and Auschwitz concentration camps, she […]