(New York Jewish Week) — UJA-Federation of New York contributed more than $17.5 million to a new cultural campus in Jerusalem that opened Thursday. The $50 million, 2.5-acre Jerusalem Campus for the Arts combines schools for theater, film, television and Middle Eastern classical music, plus performance spaces. UJA announced its support for the project in […]
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(JTA) — As Kanye West extended his antisemitic spree by tweeting about Jewish agents in Hollywood, the rocker John Mellencamp took the stage at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and said this about his longtime lawyer: “Allen is Jewish.” The line began an impassioned speech about the importance of non-Jews standing up for […]
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(JTA) — “You’re On Your Own, Kid,” isn’t just the name of a track on Taylor Swift’s newest album — the phrase describes the way many of the pop star’s Jewish fans were feeling after she released the dates for her upcoming tour. This week, Shabbat-observant Swifties voiced their disappointment with the dates, which were […]
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The Lesson of Jan Karski/ Photo credit Tsipi Ingberg Ben-Haim by Tsipi Inberg Ben-Haim For 90 minutes, the actor David Strathairn re-lived on stage, for us, the audience, a mesmerizing, painful lesson of Jan Karski. The sold-out space was full of people whose eyes and attention focused on that one person on stage! No one […]
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Dmitry Muratov – Wikipedia Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov auctioned off his Nobel Prize to raise money for the people of Ukraine suffering under a now three month long Russian invasion of their country. At auction on Monday night, the 23-karat gold Nobel medal sold for $103.5 million, crushing the previous record for the sale of […]
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Neil Diamond After serving as Neil Diamond’s publishing administrator since 2014, Universal Music Group announced today that it has purchased the full song library and recording rights of famous performer and composer Neil Diamond. UMG hasn’t disclosed the price of the deal. Diamond has sold more than 130 million albums over the last half-century, putting […]
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(JTA) — Impossible Foods, the plant-based meat company, is releasing a long-awaited new product — but unlike the wildly popular Impossible Burger, it won’t be certified kosher. The largest and most influential certifier of kosher products in the world has declined to endorse Impossible Pork, even though nothing about its ingredients or preparation conflicts with […]
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(JTA) — Were it not for Rudolph Vrba and Alfréd Wexler, would the world today know the true extent of the mass murder the Nazis inflicted during the Holocaust? The two men, both Slovak Jews who escaped from Auschwitz, secretly recorded fastidious notes about details of the death camp unknown to the outside world. These […]
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(JTA) — Showtime is producing a limited series on the late Jewish comedy legend Joan Rivers, and its lead actress should not come as a surprise. Kathryn Hahn, the non-Jewish star known for playing a rabbi on the very Jewish series “Transparent” among other Jewish roles, will portray Rivers, who died in 2014 after complications […]
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AMSTERDAM (JTA) — As he lists the names of his many grandchildren, Joop van Ooijen recites what sounds like a roll call at a typical Israeli classroom. Yair, Yael, Lael, Odelia, Netanya, Yoaz and Shilon are some of his grandkids with modern names, favored by the Israeli middle class. Baruch, Moshe, Elisheva and Yehuda are […]
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