(JTA) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress on July 24, his fourth time appearing before the legislative body.
The Netanyahu speech, coming against the backdrop of the Israel-Hamas war in...
By PJ Grisar, The Forward
• Published June 5, 2024
There is no documentary subject more urgent and more overexposed than Hitler and the Nazis.
So great is the glut of TV shows devoted to the Third Reich that you can take your pick of subgenres — a pop psychological profile of Hitler, National Geographic’s...
(JTA) — Maybe you’re curious about different slices of Jewish culinary history. Maybe you’re a chef looking to add some new Jewish recipes to your repertoire. Or maybe you don’t know where to begin, but you have a craving for learning more about...
The next leader of AIPAC will be Elliot Brandt, who has served as a senior official of the pro-Israel lobby for decades and will take the helm shortly after the November elections, as Israel faces volatile conflicts on multiple fronts.
Brandt, currently...
The musician Jonny Greenwood is pushing back on critics who say he should abandon a plan to tour with an Israeli collaborator because of the Israel-Hamas war.
Greenwood and Dudu Tassa, an Israeli rock star from a prominent Mizrahi musical family,...
Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published June 4, 2024
The chilling true-story Italian-language drama “Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara” (originally “Rapito”) depicts the strange but true kidnapping of a 6-year-old Jewish boy in Bologna in 1858, on orders of the Pope after hearing that...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published June 3, 2024
Are you the type who can't help but point out every Jewish actor in a TV show? Still captivated by "Shtisel"? Do you binge-watch series that delve into Jewish history like "We Were the Lucky Ones," "The Club," and "The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem"? Are...
(JTA) — Claudia Sheinbaum swept to victory in Mexico’s presidential election Sunday, giving the country of more than 120 million a woman leader and a Jewish leader for the first time.
Sheinbaum’s election makes Mexico by far the biggest country...
Aaron Abramson’s American upbringing is apparent when he speaks Hebrew, the language he learned as a teenager after his hippie parents decided to move the family from Seattle to Israel and become religiously Orthodox.
His subsequent army service...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that there are “gaps” between the ceasefire terms that President Joe Biden laid out on Friday and what he is prepared to accept.
“The proposal that Biden presented is incomplete,” Netanyahu...
(JTA) — Israel is joining the Western nations requiring an advance online application and a fee for citizens from visa-exempt countries, including the United States.
Until now, Americans who want to travel to Israel haven’t needed to do anything...
The Republican Jewish Coalition leapt to the defense of Donald Trump after he was found guilty on 34 charges related to falsifying records to conceal that he paid an adult film star to cover up a sexual liaison just before the 2016 presidential election.
The...
