Jackie Hajdenberg, JTA
• Published November 8, 2024
In 2013, there was the “Menurkey,” a turkey-shaped menorah, for the highly unusual overlap of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah.
Now, 11 years later, a new holiday-mashup menorah is making its appearance. The Happy Jew Year hanukkiah features a spinning...
By Ron Kampeas, Jewish Telegraphic Agency
• Published November 7, 2024
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had dispatched two planes to Amsterdam to rescue Israeli soccer fans beset by mobs after a game between Ajax, a local team, and Maccabi Tel Aviv, an Israeli team.
Videos that circulated on WhatsApp and...
WASHINGTON — For months on the campaign trail, Donald Trump has said he wants the war in Gaza to end — even reportedly setting a timeline for Israel to finish its campaign against Hamas in the Palestinian territory by his inauguration.
He also...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered enthusiastic congratulations to President-elect Donald Trump, saying his victory heralds a “powerful recommitment to the great alliance between Israel and America.”
“Dear Donald and Melania Trump,...
Ron Kampeas, Ben Sales, JTA
• Published November 6, 2024
WASHINGTON — As midnight arrived on the East Coast, it appeared increasingly likely that Donald Trump would retake the presidency — a victory that would reshape the United States and that could change its relationship with Israel.
By the beginning...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired his defense minister, Yoav Gallant, saying he no longer trusted him, a drastic step while Israel is fighting on multiple fronts, faces domestic political turmoil and is contending with regional and global...
By Lior Zaltzman, Kveller
• Published November 4, 2024
Could “The Office” finally get its first openly Jewish character?!
For those of you confused about why “The Office,” which stopped airing way back in 2013, could get any new characters at all, you might have missed the news that the hit sitcom,...
By Lior Zaltzman, Kveller
• Published November 4, 2024
Did you know the best Jewish TV show you’ve never heard of came out in 2019? I knew it, but for some reason, writing about Amazon’s “Undone,” the animated TV show from Jewish “Bojack Horseman” creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg and “Bojack”...
Asaf Elia-Shalev, JTA
• Published November 3, 2024
Fans and critics of Donald Trump have compared him to some of history’s most famous rulers: Cyrus the Great, Adolf Hitler, King David and more.
But on the eve of the election, a celebrity pastor named Jonathan Cahn wants his evangelical followers...
By Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 1, 2024
Food insecurity affects millions of people worldwide. It is especially significant in Israel, where relief often comes from Leket Israel, the national food bank. Translated from Hebrew, leket means “gleanings.”
The concept of sharing a portion...
Hymie’s, a popular Philadelphia Jewish deli, raised some Jewish hackles when it served as the scene of the Republican Jewish Coalition’s closing ad — featuring Jewish actors playing older women who, after supporting Democrats, were switching their...
The president of the Chicago public school board resigned Thursday after only a week on the job following two days of backlash over his history of antisemitic social media posts.
Rev. Mitchell Ikenna Johnson had defied calls to resign just a day before,...
