When Rachel Zegler tweeted “free palestine” last year after sharing the trailer for her latest movie, the live-action “Snow White,” millions of people saw it — more than 9 million, as of this week. But until Tuesday, few knew the extent to which Zegler’s one-line tweet caused a firestorm for Disney as well as her […]
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Hundreds of men shouting criticism of Hamas marched in Gaza on Tuesday, according to footage shared from the territory the terror group has long governed. Protests took place Tuesday and Wednesday throughout the enclave, including in Khan Younis and neighborhoods of Gaza City. The demonstrations were a rare and risky public display of dissent against […]
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For much of the 20th century, the world of classical conducting was dominated by two figures: Herbert von Karajan and Leonard Bernstein, who fiercely competed with each other throughout their prolific and illustrious careers. The first was Austrian, a stickler for exactitude who was, for a time, a member of the Nazi Party. The second […]
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The chief rabbi of the French city Orléans was physically assaulted and called antisemitic slurs while walking with his 9-year-old son on Shabbat. Chief Rabbi Arié Engelberg was walking with his son from synagogue on Saturday afternoon when a 16-year-old approached him and asked if he was Jewish, according to Agence France-Presse. After Engelberg said […]
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In 1941, a group of intellectual Jews confined to the Vilna ghetto — writers, scholars, poets and the like — were forced by the Nazis to plunder their own people’s treasured works for a Nazi propaganda museum, the Institute for Research on the Jewish Question. These intellectuals, including the poet Abraham Sutzkever and the writer […]
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The Facebook page British History has a devoted but not particularly emotive following. Multiple times a day, it posts an image and factoid from, well, British history, to a handful of comments and thumbs-up emojis. But when it showed followers an image of Clifford’s Tower in York, England, over the weekend and informed them about […]
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A medieval manuscript, believed to be the oldest Jewish book in the world, is now on view in New York City. The Afghan Liturgical Quire, which dates to approximately the year 700 CE, is on display at the Jewish Theological Seminary Library in Morningside Heights as part of an exhibit, “Sacred Words: Revealing the Earliest […]
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Gal Gadot addressed her family in Hebrew and spoke about growing up in Israel at a ceremony Tuesday to unveil her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. “I’m just a girl from a town in Israel,” the 39-year-old said during the ceremony. She added, “This star will remind me that with hard work and passion […]
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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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