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Trump campaign pushing back against Rumble placing its ads before Nazi videos

The Jewish News SyndicatePublished March 18, 2024

Rolling Stone magazine published a story on March 14 about campaign advertising for former President Donald Trump being featured before videos calling Adolf Hitler a hero. The ad appeared on Rumble—a video-streaming platform akin to YouTube with looser...

Lox on a bagel. Credit: Tante Tati/Pixabay.

Lox, gravlax, smoked salmon: How a fish became the quintessential Jewish dish

Ethel G. Hofman, Jewish News SyndicatePublished March 18, 2024

It’s the American Jewish classic that goes way beyond Sunday-morning breakfasts with the whole mishpacha. Lox and bagels with a schmear of cream cheese have become a universal staple for breakfast, brunch or even as a take-along snack. Who can resist?...

Lt. Robert Rosenthal, center, with his 418th crew in front of his plane, Rosies Riveters. (Courtesy of the 100th Bomb Group Foundation)

The real Jewish history of Lt. Robert ‘Rosie’ Rosenthal, heroic pilot in ‘Masters of the Air’

Jacob Gurvis, JTAPublished March 15, 2024

Spoilers ahead for “Part Nine” of “Masters of the Air” on Apple TV+. (JTA) — When Lieutenant Colonel Robert Rosenthal’s B-17 bomber aircraft exploded during his final World War II combat mission on Feb. 3, 1945, he found himself in the...

Eric Carmen, a founder of the Raspberries

Eric Carmen, who sang ‘All By Myself’ and ‘Hungry Eyes’ dies at 74

(Cleveland Jewish News/Alexandra Golden via JNS)Published March 14, 2024

Former Clevelander Eric Howard Carmen, a founder of the Raspberries—a power-pop group of the 1970s—will be remembered as “one of the good ones,” someone who “meant a lot to a lot of people” and “leaves a beautiful legacy that continues on.” Carmen,...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference at the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv on April 10, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

Schumer says Netanyahu has ‘lost his way’, calls for new elections

Luke Tress, JTAPublished March 14, 2024

(JTA) – In a landmark speech, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “lost his way,” urged new elections in Israel, called for a two-state solution and said the United States should use its “leverage”...

Jeff Schoenfeld (Courtesy of JFNA)

The man allocating $800M in post-Oct. 7 donations to Israel on where the money goes

Asaf Elia-Shalev, JTAPublished March 13, 2024

(JTA) – By now, Israeli charities that need funding for Oct. 7 recovery efforts know very well where to turn. Jews in North America have donated nearly $800 million to local Jewish federations to support those efforts, a fundraising drive on a scale...

Zachary Marschal

Meet Zachary Marschall, the Jewish conservative who leads the nation in campus antisemitism investigations

Andrew Lapin, JTAPublished March 13, 2024

(JTA) — When the conservative website Campus Reform published what it said, in all-caps, was an “EXCLUSIVE” about a new federal antisemitism investigation at Arizona State University, it had the rare distinction of being able to cite the complaint...

From bagels, borscht, and belly laughs, how to understand Jewish Humor and its history

From bagels, borscht, and belly laughs, how to understand Jewish Humor and its history

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished March 13, 2024

The date was August 12, 2022. I was in line at Protzel's Deli when the mother of an old friend came up behind me and said, “Jordy, why do you publish a 'Jewish Joke of the Week' in the Morning Light?” She said it upset her because she believed that...

80+ bands pull out of South by Southwest to protest festival’s ties to Israeli military

80+ bands pull out of South by Southwest to protest festival’s ties to Israeli military

Andrew Lapin, JTAPublished March 13, 2024

(JTA) – More than 80 bands and several scheduled panelists have pulled out of the ongoing South by Southwest festival, citing Israel defense ties among its organizers. Organizers of the Austin, Texas, event that draws attendees from around the world...

A screenshot of the handout the staff of Columbia High School in Maplewood, NJ received on March 11. Courtesy of Michael Goldberg

School district retracts email encouraging staff to teach about Ramadan in context of Israeli ‘genocide’ of Palestinians

By Camillo Barone, The ForwardPublished March 12, 2024

A New Jersey school district has apologized for an email to staff encouraging them to “contextualize” lessons about Ramadan by explaining how Israel prevents Palestinian Muslims from celebrating the holiday as it “enacts a genocide.”  It also...

Singer Steve Lawrence, son of a cantor and half of ‘Steve and Eydie,’ dies at 88

Singer Steve Lawrence, son of a cantor and half of ‘Steve and Eydie,’ dies at 88

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTAPublished March 11, 2024

(JTA) — Steve Lawrence, the Brooklyn-born son of a cantor who with his wife Eydie Gormé formed one of the most enduring popular singing duos during the golden age of the Las Vegas lounge act and television variety show, died March 7 in Los Angeles....

Dean Bell, Oren Etzioni, Ellen Goodman, David Zvi Kalman, and Orly Lobel, left to right, will be speaking at Spertus Institutes Critical Conversations event, March 17, 2024. (Spertus)

A Jewish institution asks: What does Judaism have to say about AI?

BY ZEV STUB, JTAPublished March 8, 2024

Will the advent of artificial intelligence usher in a new age of prosperity and efficiency, or will it hasten the downfall of civilization as we know it? While tech leaders and government regulators race to establish new practical and legal frameworks...

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