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Israeli and Polish national soccer teams hold unauthorized moment of silence before European qualifying match

November 22, 2023November 22, 2023Jesse Orine

(JR) — Israel’s under-21 men’s national soccer team took the field on Friday for the first time since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack that killed and injured thousands and brought much of Israeli life, including sports, to a standstill. The Union of European Football Associations, Europe’s football governing body, had reportedly rejected a request to hold […]

Oct. 7 nearly derailed Berlin’s famous Israeli-Palestinian restaurant. But it’s back in business.

November 22, 2023November 22, 2023Jesse Orine

(JR) — On the morning of Oct. 7, as the horrors unfolding in southern Israel reverberated through mobile screens and live-streamed videos across the world, a hummus restaurant in Germany closed its doors. Behind Kanaan, a restaurant in northeastern Berlin serving up hummus, salads and falafel, is a rare Israeli-Palestinian partnership. Oz Ben David grew […]

The world’s first Israeli-Palestinian boy band accidentally picked a wild moment to make their debut

November 22, 2023November 23, 2023Jesse Orine

((JR)) — The world’s first Israeli-Palestinian boy band landed in Los Angeles to start recording songs on Oct. 6, the day before Hamas attacked Israel and kicked off a war in Gaza, a new feature from Billboard magazine reveals. As1one — pronounced “as one” — is a group of four Jewish Israelis and two Palestinians, […]

I survived a pogrom in Iraq 82 years ago. I know where Hamas’ extremism will lead today.

November 21, 2023November 21, 2023Jesse Orine

(JR) — When I saw the photos and videos posted by Hamas murdering entire Israeli families, raping women and killing young people at a music festival on Oct. 7 — I was horrified and shocked. These images ignited the flames of a dormant trauma I suffered 82 years ago in Baghdad, Iraq, when I was just […]

Here’s what Jewish New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast’s dreams are made of

November 21, 2023November 21, 2023Jesse Orine

(New York Jewish Week) — Cartoonist and writer Roz Chast is best known for her work at The New Yorker, where she’s been a contributor since 1978. But the Brooklyn native is also famously associated with the city from which the prestigious publication takes its name. Chast’s cartoons often explore the mundane hilarity of everyday […]

‘Unorthodox’ author Deborah Feldman is a lightning rod in Germany’s debate about criticizing Israel

November 21, 2023November 21, 2023Jesse Orine

(JR) — The TV series “Unorthodox” took the world by storm in 2020. Now, recent comments about Israel by the story’s Berlin-based Jewish heroine, author Deborah Feldman, have created a storm of another kind. Feldman, 37, a dual American-German citizen, rose to fame through her story of fleeing the Satmar Hasidic community of Brooklyn to the […]

A Yiddish musical about life in Jewish ghettos during WWII carries new resonance since Oct. 7

November 21, 2023November 21, 2023Jesse Orine

(New York Jewish Week) – “Humanity’s most true history is written only in blood. How Jews died, the entire world already knows.” So says Broadway star Steven Skybell at the beginning of “Amid Falling Walls,” a new musical from the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene. “But how Jews resisted against and fought the murderers, we know […]

Spanish politician who on Oct. 7 said Palestinians have ‘right to resist’ is made a cabinet minister

November 20, 2023November 20, 2023Jesse Orine

(JR) — A Spanish politician who said that Palestinians have “the right to resist after decades of occupation” on Oct. 7, when Hamas killed 1,200 people in southern Israel, was named Spain’s minister of children and youth on Monday. Sira Rego, who has been a member of the European Parliament since 2019, has a Palestinian […]

10 years ago, American Jews celebrated Thanksgivukkah. Can we get that vibe back?

November 20, 2023November 20, 2023Jesse Orine

((JR)) — It’s been 10 years since Thanksgivukkah — the rare convergence of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah — revolutionized the Jewish-American holiday experience. It’s amazing that just one decade ago the biggest slogan in our community was “Light, Liberty and Latkes.” In these dark and difficult times, that phrase can call us back to a simpler, […]

For Jewish teens in Asia, first BBYO convention in Singapore offers a rare sense of community

November 20, 2023November 20, 2023Jesse Orine

TAIPEI (JR) — For a few years eight decades ago, Shanghai was home to an outpost of what would become BBYO, the global Jewish youth movement. At the time, the Chinese city was a refuge for Jews fleeing Europe. Fifteen German Jewish teens created an Aleph Zadik Aleph chapter in June 1941, but when they left […]