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((JEWISH REVIEW)) – In one of the more dizzying episodes of controversy surrounding Jewish cultural events since the Israel-Hamas war, a court ordered a Philadelphia-area movie theater Tuesday to move forward with screening an Israeli film less than a day after the theater’s Jewish director tried to call it off. The injunction issued by Montgomery […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — After spending three summers as an Israeli emissary at Camp Young Judaea Sprout Lake in upstate New York, Shahar Vaknin made a decision. “I was 100% sure I’m done with camp,” he said. Then came Oct. 7, when one of Vaknin’s cousins was killed in the Nova music festival massacre. He returned […]

(New York Jewish Week) — Last week, a video circulated online that drew impassioned commentary from Ritchie Torres’ supporters and opponents alike. In the two-minute clip, shared on April 4, the Bronx congressman parries accusations from pro-Palestinian activists that he supports the starvation of children during a genocide in Gaza. In response, he denies that […]

(J. The Jewish News of Northern California via (JEWISH REVIEW)) — When the inaugural California Jewish Open exhibit opens at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco in June, the gallery walls will have several blank spaces where works of art were supposed to hang. The spaces will represent the “missing perspectives” of seven self-identified […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Every Friday night, Rabbi Marc Katz’s synagogue recites a prayer for Israel that, since Oct. 7, has expressed hope for the release of the hostages held by Hamas, mentioned the Israeli government and asked God for dignity for both Israelis and Palestinians. Katz, the spiritual leader of Temple Ner Tamid in Bloomfield, […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The Israeli military chief of staff fired two officers found to be responsible for the mistakes that led to the killing of seven aid workers with the World Central Kitchen, which deepened a crisis in U.S.-Israel relations. The sackings Friday, and the Israel Defense Forces’ publication of details that led to the […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — It was September 2015, on the eve of what AIPAC was depicting as one of the most critical congressional votes in U.S. history — for or against President Barack Obama’s Iran nuclear deal, which was reviled by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and much of the centrist pro-Israel community. Howard Kohr, […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — In the three days since an Israeli strike killed seven aid workers in Gaza, the prime minister has said he “deeply regrets” the incident, the defense minister has expressed his “sorrow and condolences,” the chief of the military has said sorry for the “grave mistake” and the president has personally apologized […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Ira Sheskin is one of the most prominent demographers of American Jews. A professor at the University of Miami, Sheskin helps Jewish communities across the country carry out complicated population surveys. He sometimes works for businesses, too, and several years ago, a major kosher poultry company turned to him with a quandary. […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – Officials in Rochester, New York, this week condemned a cartoon depicting the head of the local Jewish federation and the Jewish majority leader of the county legislature in crude antisemitic caricatures that was sent out in a mass mailer. The cartoon appeared to object to an Israeli flag that has flown outside […]