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Chile’s Palestino soccer club, whose fans were ejected for accusing Israel of genocide, advances in international tournament

March 14, 2024March 14, 2024Jesse Orine

(JR) — Fans were ejected from a prestigious South American soccer tournament for accusing Israel of genocide as their team, a century-old Chilean soccer squad founded by Palestinian immigrants, qualified for the tournament’s main group stage. Club Deportivo Palestino, whose name means “Palestinian Sports Club,” competes in Chile’s highest tier of professional soccer and wears […]

Bringing contraception and opportunity to adolescents in Kenya

March 13, 2024March 13, 2024Jesse Orine

The town of Kisumu sits on the edge of Lake Victoria in western Kenya. It is the third largest city in Kenya and famous for being the birthplace of President Barack Obama’s father. MSI Reproductive Choices was there to shoot a video with Empowered, a video company that produces educational video content for PBS. Empowered had […]

What to know about the fiery Jewish reactions to Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars speech criticizing Israel

March 12, 2024March 12, 2024Jesse Orine

((JR)) – In the wake of the Oscars, Hollywood has been treated to a rare spectacle: Jewish communal leaders attacking the Jewish director of an award-winning Holocaust movie. The Anti-Defamation League and an organization representing Holocaust survivors are among those now angry with Jonathan Glazer, the British Jewish filmmaker behind the widely acclaimed drama “The […]

US religious freedom commission leaves Saudi Arabia after rabbi co-chair is told to remove his kippah

March 11, 2024March 11, 2024Jesse Orine

(JR) — A U.S. government delegation tasked with monitoring religious freedom around the world cut a visit to Saudi Arabia short after Saudi officials demanded that a prominent rabbi on the trip remove his kippah. Saudi officials told Rabbi Abraham Cooper, co-chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, to remove his kippah […]

A Cooper Union art student’s paintings recall her Israeli family’s roots in a community shattered on Oct. 7

March 11, 2024March 11, 2024Jesse Orine

(New York Jewish Week) — Darya Arad grew up looking at photo albums of Kibbutz Nahal Oz, a small, idyllic community where her mother, the Israeli author Maya Arad, lived for a time during her childhood. There were pictures of elementary school children, of multi-generational families, of Purim celebrations and weddings held throughout the 1970 […]

The Netherlands, home to the Nazis’ most famous victim, has never had a Holocaust museum — until now

March 11, 2024March 11, 2024Jesse Orine

(JR) — The Anne Frank House in the heart of Amsterdam is one of the Netherlands’ most-visited tourist destinations. Outside of the city a memorial commemorates the Westerbork transit camp, where the Franks were sent on their way to Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Several other museums tell the story of Dutch resistance against the Nazis. But […]

Pro-Palestinian protesters target Dutch Holocaust museum opening ceremony attended by Israeli president

March 10, 2024March 11, 2024Jesse Orine

(JR) — Protesters opposed to Israel’s war in Gaza demonstrated outside a ceremony to mark the opening of the Netherlands’ first Holocaust museum on Sunday, citing the presence of the Israeli president. More than 1,000 people joined in the protest over the ceremony, which took place in Amsterdam’s historic Portuguese Synagogue. The protesters came from […]

In Oscars acceptance speech, ‘Zone of Interest’ director Jonathan Glazer denounces ‘occupation’ and ‘dehumanization’ in Israel and Gaza

March 10, 2024March 10, 2024Jesse Orine

((JR)) – As widely predicted, “Oppenheimer,” the biopic of Jewish nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, swept a number of categories at Sunday’s Oscars, including best picture, in a year unusually heavy with Jewish nominees. But the most talked-about Jewish moment of the night came courtesy of Jonathan Glazer, writer-director of the cerebral Holocaust drama “The […]

For the 3rd time, Matisyahu concert canceled amid threat of pro-Palestinian protests

March 8, 2024March 8, 2024Jesse Orine

((JR)) — A third Matisyahu concert has been canceled in response to the threat of pro-Palestinian protests, the American Jewish reggae musician shared on his Instagram Friday afternoon. The show had been scheduled for Friday night at House of Blues Chicago. “While my fans and I are deeply hurt by this, please know we will […]

Their grandfather was a celebrity during the golden age for Jews in Iran. So why did he leave?

March 8, 2024March 8, 2024Jesse Orine

(JR) — Sisters Danielle and Galeet Dardashti grew up with the lore of their grandfather, Younes Dardashti. An Iranian musical icon who sang at the palace of Mohammad Reza Shah, he traversed the country’s concert halls and drew Iranians to their radios every week from the 1940s to the 1960s. Known as the “Nightingale of […]