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Jewish life, Torah, tradition and rabbinical insight.
August 17, 2023, 12:23 pm
Children of Leonard Bernstein defend Bradley Cooper’s portrayal of composer
Cooper had come under fire for what critics have called not using acting to “get the power of the man’s story and Jewishness”.
By Charlotte McLaughlin (PA Senior Entertainment Reporter)
They're home! Salih Adam with his wife and child at Heathrow on Thursday.
August 17, 2023, 12:20 pm
London synagogue helps rescue Muslim family from war-torn Sudan
EXCLUSIVE: The family’s arrival in the UK comes as a result of the remarkable work done on their behalf by members of Britain’s oldest progressive shul.
By Lee Harpin
ECY6G7 United Airlines Boeing 777 in flight
August 16, 2023, 11:14 am
‘Humiliation’: Woman ‘yelled’ at by airline for refusing to change seat for ultra-Orthodox man
'A United crew member yelled at me that the flight to NYC won’t take off because of me after I refused to move,' Neria Kraus said.
By Jotam Confino in Israel
Paul Cohen at his home in Narsaq, Greenland. (Dan Fellner)
August 16, 2023, 9:05 am
The only Jew in remote Greenland sometimes feels like ‘the last person on earth’
'It’s the Garden of Eden in many ways.I feel like I’m living in the heart of a national park,' Paul Cohen says.
By Dan Fellner (JTA)
An Israeli bus (Wikimedia/User: Grauesel at wikivoyage/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GNU_Free_Documentation_License,_version_1.2)
August 14, 2023, 11:38 am
Jewish teens ‘told to sit at the back of the bus to avoid offending strictly-Orthodox’
The girls were about to board a Nateev Express bus from Ashdod to Kfar Tavor on Sunday when the bus driver confronted them about their clothes.
By Jotam Confino in Israel
An aerial image shows destroyed homes and buildings burned to the ground in Lahaina in the aftermath of wildfires in western Maui, Hawaii, Aug. 10, 2023. (Patrick T. Fallon AFP via Getty Images)
August 14, 2023, 10:20 am
Jewish groups launch relief effort for Maui as island’s Jews are among the evacuated
Hawaii’s Jewish governor, Josh Green, toured the town of Lahaina on the island of Maui, which the wildfires have all but destroyed.
By Ron Kampeas (JTA)
Konrad Kutt and Irena Aselmeier, founders of Germany's book box initiative, stand in front of the burned-out book box near the "Gleis 17" Holocaust memorial after an apparent arson attack. (Fabian Sommer/picture alliance via Getty Images)
August 14, 2023, 10:12 am
Holocaust ‘book box’ at German deportation memorial destroyed in apparent antisemitic arson
The book box, from which any passerby could borrow reading material related to the Holocaust, had been dedicated in 2012.
By Philissa Cramer (JTA)
Far-right leader, Betzalel Smotrich, in Knesset.
August 8, 2023, 3:30 pm
Far-right minister accused of racism after freezing funds for Arab Israeli cities
'I'm ashamed racism has become an official policy of the state,' opposition leader Yair Lapid said about Finance Minister Betzalel Smotrich's decision to freeze funds for Arab Israeli cities.
By Jotam Confino in Israel
Fire burns as people attend a demonstration after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed the defense minister and his nationalist coalition government presses on with its judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv, Israel, March 27, 2023. REUTERS/Nir Elias
August 8, 2023, 11:46 am
Poll: 58% of Israelis believe the country is in a ‘state of emergency’
New poll also claims 60.5% of Israelis think the newly-passed "reasonableness law", which prevents the Supreme Court from striking down government decisions, is bad for democracy.
By Jotam Confino in Israel
Sylvan Adams at the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships in Scotland, Aug. 4, 2023. (SWpix)
August 8, 2023, 10:32 am
Israeli-Canadian billionaire Sylvan Adams wins cycling world championship in Scotland
Despite not picking up cycling until he was in his 40s, Adams had previously won numerous international competitions, including the 2017 World Championship in Manchester.
By Jacob Gurvis (JTA)
Polina, Natan and Ihor traveled thousands of kilometres on the road across the border to Poland, and then flew to Sofia in Bulgaria to attend the two-week program. Credit: World ORT
August 7, 2023, 12:05 pm
World ORT helps Ukrainian teens enjoy summer school abroad
The program deepens ORT students’ experience in photography, video and audio production taught by professionals.
By JN Reporter
A new docuseries is set to lay bare the complicated and mysterious life of Ghislaine Maxwell and her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein
August 7, 2023, 10:56 am
Kosher food and religious time off: Ghislaine Maxwell adopts Judaism in prison
Maxwell has registered Judaism as her religion and therefore receives kosher food, access to a rabbi, and time off work on the Shabbat.
By JN Reporter
Rabbi Jeffrey Myers leads survivors and families of the attack on the Tree of Life synagogue in a prayer of thanks, at the Jewish Community Center in Pittsburgh, Aug. 2, 2023. (Ron Kampeas)
August 3, 2023, 9:19 am
After synagogue gunman’s death sentence, Pittsburgh’s Jews feel relief and gratitude
“The only thing positive about the sentencing of a criminal is that this long slog is over,” said Audrey Glickman, who hid in the synagogue on the day of the attack.
By Ron Kampeas (JTA)
Pittsburgh victims
August 2, 2023, 5:32 pm
Pittsburgh synagogue shooter sentenced to death
The sentence marks an end to the months-long trial of Robert Bowers, who was convicted in June of murdering 11 Jews during Shabbat prayers on October 27, 2018.
By Ron Kampeas (JTA)
YouTube screenshot of a little boy freed from the horrors of Nazism.
August 2, 2023, 3:24 pm
Breathtaking unseen footage of Holocaust ‘miracle’ unveiled for first time
Three-minute footage shows Holocaust survivors, who were heading by train to Theresienstadt on 13 April 1945, after they were rescued by American troops.
By JN Reporter
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