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The New York Times called Isaac Bashevis Singer a Polish writer. Here’s how Wikipedia warriors made him Jewish again.

June 4, 2021Jesse Orine

(JTA) — Few things rile an online crowd like a mistake in The New York Times. One example is the Twitter account of a contemptuous troll dedicated to pointing out typos and grammar mistakes in the paper of record. But there’s another category of error — the botching of a fraught historical detail — that elicits […]

In significant verdict, French court sentences Holocaust denier to 5 years for making death threats

June 4, 2021Jesse Orine

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Belfast City Council calls for Israeli ambassadors to be expelled from UK and Ireland

June 4, 2021Jesse Orine

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London Jewish schoolteachers quit union over pro-Palestinian stance

June 3, 2021Jesse Orine

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These days David Hertz is a world leader in turning food into social change. He had to reconcile his Jewish identity first.

June 1, 2021Jesse Orine

RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Chef David Hertz, one of the world’s leading food entrepreneurs tackling social issues, credits two places with inspiring his journey: There’s the kibbutz in Israel, and the favela in Brazil. At 18, after growing up in the southern Brazilian city of Curitiba, he traveled to the Hatzerim kibbutz to live […]

Dutch university removes ‘from the river to the sea’ pro-Palestinian banner following protests by Jews

June 1, 2021Jesse Orine

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In Ukraine, bullet holes are found in a synagogue and a mass grave of Holocaust victims is desecrated

June 1, 2021Jesse Orine

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North Macedonia’s first Jewish lawmaker quickly broke taboos — and was hit with antisemitism

May 31, 2021Jesse Orine

(JTA) — Politics was supposed to be a very brief interlude in Rashela Mizrahi’s career as a scientist. A 39-year-old Jewish fertility researcher from North Macedonia, she was appointed last year to serve for 100 days as the temporary minister of labor in her Balkan country, situated north of Greece. She was deemed a good […]

Non-Jewish man wearing yarmulke in solidarity with Jews is assaulted in Sweden

May 30, 2021Jesse Orine

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Amid a surge in hate crimes, prominent European Jews worry the war against antisemitism has been lost

May 28, 2021Jesse Orine

AMSTERDAM (JTA) — In Germany, a man wearing a kippah was beaten on the street. In Austria, a student was harassed on the train for reading a book mentioning Jews in the title. In London, a nurse said she was threatened at her hospital for wearing a Star of David necklace. And in Belgium, an […]