By Bruria Efune, Chabad.org/news
• Published November 30, 2022
More than 400 freshly baked challahs were enjoyed by Jewish fans and officials at the World Cup in Qatar this past Shabbat. Baked in a kitchen specially koshered by a young Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi from Turkey, it’s part of a month-long effort to...
By Irene Katz Connelly, The Forward
• Published November 30, 2022
Everyone knows the girlboss era is over.
For almost a decade, the term denoted admiration for a woman who, through grit and determination, achieves the kind of powerful career historically reserved for men. But millennials have become disillusioned...
Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 30, 2022
Abbie White loved collecting purses.
She had some 500 of them, many antique rarities. White, who died in 2016, was a longtime resident of Covenant Place. Besides collecting purses, White participated in many Covenant Place activities. She was a member...
Shai Carmi, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and David Reich, Harvard University
• Published November 30, 2022
About two-thirds of Jews today – or about 10 million people – are Ashkenazi, referring to a recent origin from Eastern and Central Europe. They reside mostly in the United States and Israel. Ashkenazi Jews carry a particularly high burden of disease-causing...
BERLIN (JTA) – The city of Erfurt in central Germany is home to an impeccably restored medieval synagogue made possible because local Jews had been expelled long before the Nazis began their campaign to destroy Jewish sites.
Now, Erfurt’s long-hidden...
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
• Published November 29, 2022
(New York Jewish Week) — Freddie Roman wasn’t just a Catskills comic but a curator and preservationist of a comedy tradition born at the Jewish resorts in upstate New York’s Catskill Mountains.
For years he served as dean of the Friars Club,...
Jackie Hajdenberg, JTA
• Published November 29, 2022
(JTA) — Two weeks after a Trump-supporting heckler threw a beer can at Ariel Elias at a club in New Jersey over her politics, the Jewish comedian’s fortunes took a turn for the better. A video of the incident went viral and she made her network television...
By Simi Horwitz, The Forward
• Published November 29, 2022
Barry Rosenthal’s documentary, The Jewish Jail Lady and the Holy Thief, is a mind-blowing character study. It casts its lens on addiction therapy, religion and how personal interactions are culturally informed. It touches on boardroom dynamics. Oh,...
By Jacob Kornbluh, The Forward
• Published November 29, 2022
Rapper Kanye West complained that former President Donald Trump was being controlled by Jews and invoked the Holocaust in a podcast interview Monday evening with the two white nationalists he brought to a dinner with Trump last week, Milo Yiannopoulos...
(JTA) – Indy’s going to sock it to the Third Reich once more.
The fifth movie in the Indiana Jones series will plop Harrison Ford’s heroic archaeologist into “a castle swarming with Nazis” in the year 1944, according to new plot details revealed...
Philissa Cramer, JTA
• Published November 29, 2022
(JTA) — Michelle Williams is one of the only non-Jewish actors with a starring role in “The Fabelmans,” director Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical film based on his Jewish family.
But it turns out that Williams, who plays the Spielberg character’s...
(JTA) — Leonard Cohen’s momentous trip to the Sinai Desert to perform for Israeli soldiers in the wake of the Yom Kippur War is being turned into a dramatized TV series.
“Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai” will be written by Yehonatan...
