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A new frontier for preventing antisemitic attacks: Jewish summer camp

July 22, 2021Mark Hershlag

NEW YORK (JTA) — The summer after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, Helene Drobenare decided to take off a large Hebrew word from the T-shirts of her camp counselors. Shirts with the word “tzevet,” Hebrew for staff, usually in big block letters, are standard swag for the legions of counselors who work at Jewish day camps […]

Jewish adult summer camp is back! Weekend getaway for Jews in 20s and 30s already waitlisted

July 22, 2021Mark Hershlag

There’ll be bubble soccer and fire-breathing. Pool volleyball and flower pounding. Israeli dancing and rock climbing. And there won’t be a single Zoom screen in sight. That’s the plan for the first in-person retreat since the start of the pandemic by Camp Nai Nai Nai, the Jewish adult summer camp program that aims to give […]

Harry Rosenfeld, key editor in exposing Watergate, dies at 91

July 20, 2021Mark Hershlag

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Hazon-Pearlstone merger positions Baltimore as the new epicenter of Jewish sustainability work

July 16, 2021Mark Hershlag

(Baltimore Jewish Times via JTA) — With the pending merger of Hazon and the Pearlstone Retreat Center, Baltimore is poised to become a national leader in the Jewish outdoor food, farming and environmental education movement. Pearlstone, a Jewish retreat center and outdoor education site in the Baltimore suburb of Reisterstown funded by the local federation, […]

‘Why can’t I be the first?’ Orthodox baseball prospect Jacob Steinmetz on the history he hopes to make

July 16, 2021Mark Hershlag

(JTA) — If all goes well for Jacob Steinmetz, he could run into a kosher food problem in the near future. Steinmetz, a 17-year-old pitcher from suburban New York with a blazing fastball, made history on Monday as the first Orthodox Jewish baseball player to be drafted by a major league team. The Arizona Diamondbacks […]

Republicans are trying to brand Mark Zuckerberg as ‘Zuckerbucks.’ Antisemitism watchdogs aren’t happy.

July 14, 2021Mark Hershlag

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Republicans and others are calling Mark Zuckerberg “Zuckerbucks.” The Anti-Defamation League wants that to stop, claiming the term suggests that “rich Jews are controlling levers of power.” The Zuckerbucks term has been circulating since last year, when the Facebook founder and his wife, Priscilla Chan, steered $400 million through the nonpartisan Center […]

Baseball phenom Jacob Steinmetz becomes first known Orthodox player drafted into the MLB

July 12, 2021Mark Hershlag

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Biden taps Eric Garcetti to be envoy to India

July 10, 2021Mark Hershlag

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Rep. Lauren Boebert says Biden’s COVID vaccine staff are ‘Needle Nazis’

July 8, 2021Mark Hershlag

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Arizona passes long-delayed Holocaust education bill after sidelining debate over antisemitism definitions

July 6, 2021Mark Hershlag

(Jewish News of Greater Phoenix via JTA) — When Michael Beller set out three years ago to get a law passed in Arizona requiring Holocaust education in public schools, the response he got was clear. “People told me this would never happen. They were like, ‘Not now, not ever. It will never happen in Arizona.’ […]