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England’s Chelsea soccer club joins Anti-Defamation League in partnership to fight bigotry

July 6, 2021Jesse Orine

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7 Fourth of July stories from JTA’s archive to take you back in time

July 2, 2021Sara Wood

(JTA) — As Americans settle in for a weekend of barbecues and (hopefully) sunshine, here’s a look back at seven stories from Fourth of Julys past in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s online archive, which stretches back to the early 1920s. 1940: FDR speaks out against “religious bigotry” In 1940, as much of the globe was embroiled […]

Tokyo Olympics: All the Jewish athletes to watch

July 2, 2021Arsen Mayer

(JTA) — The 2020 Tokyo Olympics are finally happening, a full year after they were planned. And yes, they’re still being called the 2020 Olympics, even though they’re happening in 2021. The Jewish athletes competing this year — and there are many — are the products of inspiring journeys. There’s the fencer looking for redemption, Israel’s […]

Manchester’s revamped Jewish museum celebrates the community that left it behind

July 2, 2021Jesse Orine

(JTA) — Even before its $8.35 million renovation, the Manchester Jewish Museum was a remarkably eye-catching institution. Housed in a former synagogue on a busy road in an industrial part of northern England’s largest city, it stood out from the car washes, supermarkets and hardware stores of Cheetham Hill Road thanks to its red-brick facade. […]

Sarah Aroeste uses the power of Sephardic music to revitalize a lost Jewish community

July 1, 2021Sara Wood

This article originally appeared on Alma. At the turn of the 20th century, the city of Monastir, present-day Bitola in North Macedonia, was home to the country’s largest Jewish community, 11,000 people. That’s about half of the current Jewish population of Turkey, most of whom share the Ladino language and its music with Balkan Jewish […]

For 35 years, this mother-daughter duo has run a radio show on Ladino and Sephardic Jewish culture from Madrid

July 1, 2021Jesse Orine

MADRID (JTA) — Matilde Gini de Barnatán and her daughter Viviana Rajel Barnatán didn’t set out to make Jewish history in Spain. In the 1960s and ’70s, Matilde, now 85, established herself in Argentina as a prominent researcher, teacher and scholar of the history of Sephardic culture and the Spanish Inquisition in Ibero-America. Her extensive […]

Adam Fox named hockey’s top defenseman, first Jewish player to win a major NHL award

June 30, 2021Sara Wood

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A haredi Orthodox ‘City of Torah’ is planned in Mexico, first in Latin America

June 28, 2021Jesse Orine

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Social media companies say they ban Holocaust denial. Are they also blocking education?

June 28, 2021Mark Hershlag

(JTA) — In October, one day after Facebook announced that it would ban Holocaust denial, Izabella Tabarovsky received an unexpected message from the platform. A 2019 post of hers promoting an article she had written on Holocaust remembrance was being removed for violating Facebook’s “Community Standards on hate speech.” No further information was provided, and […]

Jews need to do better if they’re to get serious about fighting racism, activists say

June 28, 2021Sara Wood

The conversation below was adapted from a recent online panel, “The Jewish Imperative to Pursue Racial and Economic Justice,” sponsored by The Genesis Prize and hosted by 70 Faces Media, JTA’s parent organization. The discussion featured leaders of three of the 10 grantees of the initiative for racial and economic justice launched by the 2021 […]