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Trevor Noah takes aim at Ted Cruz’s love for ‘chutzpah.’ Cruz retorts in Yiddish, too.

August 9, 2021Sara Wood

Trevor Noah takes aim at Ted Cruz’s love for ‘chutzpah.’ Cruz retorts in Yiddish, too. – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement

The Jewish history of Gold’s Horseradish

August 8, 2021Sara Wood

This article originally appeared on The Nosher. If you happened to be walking down the 800 block of Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn in the 1930s, you might have caught a whiff of horseradish in the air. From their Brooklyn apartment, two Jewish immigrants — Hyman and Tillie Gold, from Ukraine and Romania, respectively — […]

A dilapidated Bulgarian synagogue will become a cultural center — and lifeline for a dwindling community

August 6, 2021Jesse Orine

VIDIN, Bulgaria (JTA) — For 40 years, the central synagogue in this port city has resembled the town’s Jewish population — barely existent and rapidly aging. The synagogue, which was built in the 19th century, is quite literally a shell of its former self. Vines creep up the side of the stone walls and the […]

What happens when American Jews ‘watch’ the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? ‘The Viewing Booth’ offers a glimpse.

August 5, 2021Arsen Mayer

(JTA) — A Jewish college student sits alone in a dark room watching a series of short videos. They are filmed altercations from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, often violent, with some showing Israeli soldiers and citizens attacking or abusing Palestinian civilians. A camera trained on the student records her reactions as she watches. Occasionally a man, […]

Israel’s judo team wins bronze medal in Olympics mixed team competition

August 2, 2021Sara Wood

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Billie Eilish promotes her new album to Israelis, and draws social media ire

August 1, 2021Sara Wood

Billie Eilish promotes her new album to Israelis, and draws social media ire – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement

Is USA rugby player and TikTok star Ilona Maher Jewish?

July 30, 2021Sara Wood

Is USA rugby player and TikTok star Ilona Maher Jewish? – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement

A guide to kosher food at every Major League Baseball stadium

July 30, 2021Sara Wood

(JTA) — Jews love baseball — there’s no denying it. But when the baseball season opened in April, most major league stadiums were operating at restricted capacities and offered a limited number of concession stands. Not anymore. As the U.S. COVID-19 vaccination rate has soared, many of the ballpark restrictions have been lifted, and remain […]

This haredi Orthodox mom is the face of a new Adidas campaign

July 30, 2021Arsen Mayer

(JTA) — In 2016, Beatie Deutsch placed sixth in the Jerusalem half marathon. Watching Deutsch, an Israeli born in America, you would have never guessed that she had taken up running only four months earlier. The following year she ran the Tel Aviv Marathon while seven months pregnant with her fifth child (really!). Even while […]

A gold mikveh, a Judaica museum and a ballroom: Taiwan to get its Jewish community center

July 28, 2021Jesse Orine

(JTA) — Seven years ago, the lone Chabad rabbi in Taiwan reached out to Jeffrey Schwartz, a Jewish businessman and philanthropist who had helped fund the country’s small Jewish institutions for years. The rabbi, Shlomi Tabib, was wondering if Schwartz could fund the construction of a mikveh, a ritual bath in which Orthodox women immerse […]