Jewish comedian Modi Rosenfeld says he still has plenty of Orthodox fans after opening up about being gay

(JTA) — Sitting onstage at a comedy club filled mostly with his target audience of Orthodox Jews, comedian Modi Rosenfeld said that he’s still booking gigs at plenty of Orthodox synagogues — even after opening up about being gay. “I performed at this beautiful shul, Anshei Emuna in Boca,” Rosenfeld said at the event Thursday […]

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Criticism of rabbi’s salary may have been erased from the internet due to fraud, investigation claims

(JTA) — Did someone associated with the late Rabbi Yehiel Eckstein’s nonprofit pay a company to remove criticism of his and his daughter’s salaries from the internet? That’s the question being raised by a recent Washington Post investigation into the allegedly fraudulent activities of a firm that launders clients’ online reputations. The large organization Eckstein […]

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Police, security agencies advise Jews to be on alert ahead of planned ‘National Day of Hate’ on Shabbat

(JTA) – The police bulletins have circulated among Jews on social media, in WhatsApp chats and via email: A white supremacist group is calling for a “National Day of Hate” this Saturday and encouraging antisemites to vandalize and deface Jewish institutions.  Information about the antisemitic campaign was first provided by the Chicago Police Department, and […]

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George Santos: My Jewish identity was ‘a party favor joke’ and my critics are ‘pounding down for a pound of flesh’

WASHINGTON (JTA) — George Santos, the New York Republican congressman in trouble for a string of lies about his education, his career and his background, said his claims of Jewish identity were a “party favor joke.” But he doubled down on his debunked claim that his maternal grandparents were Jewish. Santos made the comments on […]

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