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Israeli professor Shai Davidai outside of Columbia University, April 22, 2024. (Luke Tress)

Columbia bars Shai Davidai, outspoken Israeli and pro-Israel professor, from campus

Luke Tress, JTAPublished October 16, 2024

Shai Davidai, an Israeli assistant professor at Columbia University’s business school and outspoken pro-Israel activist, said he has been barred from the school’s campus again. In a video posted to Instagram on Tuesday, Davidai said his lawyer...

Rabbi Yael Buechler is displaying her Amazon “tuchus” boxes in her Sukkah, October 2024. (Courtesy Buechler)

The ‘Tuchus’ Box that had Jews laughing—and buying!

By Philissa Cramer, JTAPublished October 16, 2024

The brightly colored “Sukkot boxes” offered up on Amazon boasted the colors of spring, not fall; had no ostensible use for the Jewish holiday; and contained a Hebrew misspelling that bordered on obscene. Reader, I bought them. And it wasn’t...

Former KKK president David Duke, left, announced on his radio show Oct. 15 that he is endorsing Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein. (Photos via YouTube, Wikimedia)

Former KKK leader David Duke endorses Jewish presidential candidate

Jackie Hajdenberg, JTAPublished October 16, 2024

David Duke, the former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, endorsed Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, who is Jewish, on his radio show Tuesday. Duke, long one of the country’s highest-profile white supremacists and antisemites, has repeatedly...

Jewish passengers were greeted by the police once they arrived in Frankfurt. (Courtesy)

Lufthansa ordered to pay $4M penalty for denying boarding to 128 Jewish passengers in 2022

Jackie Hajdenberg, JTAPublished October 15, 2024

The U.S. Department of Transportation has ordered Lufthansa to pay a $4 million Lufthansa discrimination fine for denying boarding to 128 Jewish passengers in 2022. The incident, which occurred in May 2022, affected passengers wearing traditionally...

HIT AND RUN (L to R) LIOR RAZ as SEGEV AZULAI in episode 109 of HIT AND RUN Cr. JOJO WHILDEN/NETFLIX © 2021

Lior Raz, Dustin Hoffman, and Tovah Feldshuh are teaming up for new movie

By Yulia Karra, Israel21cPublished October 15, 2024

It was announced recently that Lior Raz, cocreator and lead star of Netflix’s hit show “Fauda,” is set to star in Hollywood crime thriller “Turner” alongside veteran actor Dustin Hoffman. According to a report in Deadline, the film “tells...

A silhouette of Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism,  is displayed near a flag of the state of Israel on a building in Jerusalem. (Yehoshua Halevi/Getty Images)

For the sake of Israel, is it time to retire the word ‘Zionism’?

Alanna E. Cooper, Sharona Hoffman, JTAPublished October 14, 2024

With the rise of the campus protest movement post-Oct. 7, the terms “Zionist” and “Zionism” have suddenly entered the popular lexicon as never before. At our institution — Case Western Reserve University — the calls for student activism...

The Christopher Columbus tomb in Seville cathedral in Spain.

Caution advised about report Christopher Columbus was Jewish

Published October 14, 2024

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...

Israeli security forces at the scene where a missile fired from Iran hit a school in the town of Gedera, Oct. 1, 2024. (Liron Moldovan/Flash90)

US sending troops to Israel

By Ben Sales, JTAPublished October 13, 2024

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...

Sir Paul McCartney and his wife Nancy Shevell leave a Yom Kippur service at Circulo Israelita de Santiago, Oct. 12, 2024. (Courtesy Circulo Israelita de Santiago)

Paul McCartney attends Yom Kippur services with little help from his friends

Juan Melamed, JTAPublished October 13, 2024

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...

"Why does the pig matter?" Jordan D. Rosenblum asks in, "Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig." (Steve Evans/Wikimedia Commons)

From snout to tail, a 3,000-year history of Jews and the pig

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTAPublished 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...

Kristen Bell as Joanne and Adam Brody as Noah in "Nobody Wants This."

Love it or hate It, ‘Nobody Wants This’ is returning for season two

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished 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...

Claude Monet's pastel on paper, "Bord de Mer,” dated about 1865 and which was stolen from the Parlagi family in 1940 by the Nazis in Austria, is seen after its recovery by the FBI’s Art Crime Team. (FBI).

Family recovers Monet pastel generations after Nazi looting

Asaf Elia-Shalev, JTAPublished 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...

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