For many years, guides leading visitors on tours of Jewish history in Spain have shared rumors that Christopher Columbus was Jewish. A new documentary that garnered worldwide press coverage ahead of Columbus Day on Monday states that DNA evidence proves...
American troops will be stationed in Israel for the first time since Oct. 7, 2023, as the country prepares for ongoing conflict with Iran.
The announcement that U.S. personnel would arrive came on the same day that a Hezbollah drone strike on a military...
You could say he said sorry with a little help from his friends.
Paul McCartney, the former Beatle, attended Yom Kippur services on Saturday with his Jewish wife in Santiago, Chile. He had performed a solo concert there on Friday night, the beginning...
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
• Published October 13, 2024
In 2021, the Orthodox Union declined to certify Impossible Pork as kosher, despite approving other vegan “Impossible” products like its burger and chicken nuggets. Rabbi Menachem Genack, the CEO of the Orthodox Union’s kosher division, explained...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published October 10, 2024
I’ll be the first to admit—I don’t typically spend my evenings watching rom-coms. After bingeing six seasons of "Vikings" and diving into the Menendez brothers' biopic, rom-coms just aren’t my go-to. However, when my wife, the lovely Leigh, suggested...
Asaf Elia-Shalev, JTA
• Published October 10, 2024
When Adalbert and Hilda Parlagi fled Vienna in 1938, a month after the Nazi annexation of Austria, they left behind a collection of artwork, which they and their heirs spent decades trying to retrieve.
On Wednesday in New Orleans, FBI agents presented...
Shari Redstone, the controlling shareholder of CBS parent company Paramount Global and daughter of the late Jewish billionaire Sumner Redstone, backed reporter Tony Dokoupil over his handling of a controversial interview with author Ta-Nehisi Coates about...
As the NHL drops the puck on the 2024-2025 hockey season, Jewish fans will have plenty to root for.
The season officially began last week with a pair of games in Prague between Jack and Luke Hughes’s New Jersey Devils and Devon Levi and Jason Zucker’s...
The most prominent pro-Palestinian student group at Columbia University walked back an apology it had issued for a student who said “Zionists don’t deserve to live.”
The statement on Tuesday from Columbia University Apartheid Divest also included...
It was, I thought, a Jewish food writer’s dream assignment. Nearly four years ago, during the first autumn of the COVID pandemic, I sat down (virtually) with food superstar Ina Garten. We discussed Ina Garten’s childhood food memories, diving deep...
Marking one year since the Oct. 7 terror attack in Israel, former President Donald Trump paid a personal prayer visit on Monday afternoon to the Ohel in Queens, N.Y., the resting place of the Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory.
Millions...
(JTA) — WASHINGTON — In separate statements marking the anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris said they continue to support Israel’s war against the group and its allies.
Harris,...
