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A rabbi who ‘speaks to Christians’ condemned them on Twitter. It cost him his job.

A rabbi who ‘speaks to Christians’ condemned them on Twitter. It cost him his job.

May 13, 2022
Larry Summers,Alan Dershowitz join Harvard faculty and alumni in denouncing student paper

Larry Summers,Alan Dershowitz join Harvard faculty and alumni in denouncing student paper

May 10, 2022
Ben Foster pulls no punches playing a Holocaust-survivor-turned-boxer in HBO’s new movie

Ben Foster pulls no punches playing a Holocaust-survivor-turned-boxer in HBO’s new movie

April 24, 2022
Supreme Court rules heirs to a Jewish art dealer can use U.S. courts to recover a painting taken by the Nazis

Supreme Court rules heirs to a Jewish art dealer can use U.S. courts to recover a painting taken by the Nazis

April 21, 2022
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns filming interviews for The Roosevelts in 2014. (Daniel J. White/PBS)

Ken Burns’ next documentary is about the US response to the Holocaust

April 11, 2022
Jewish sculptor Moses David Ezekiel (left) in his Rome studio with his statue Religious Liberty (back center), 1909. A planned Princeton University exhibit of Jewish American artists in 2022 was to feature Ezekiel and a statue based on Religious Liberty, but was scrapped owing to his lifelong support of the Confederacy. (Public domain)

A Jewish art exhibit at Princeton was canceled over ties to the Confederacy. Jewish scholars are outraged.

March 29, 2022
West Virginia ‘critical race theory’ bill leads to a statehouse debate over Jews and race

West Virginia ‘critical race theory’ bill leads to a statehouse debate over Jews and race

March 10, 2022
Birthright Israel participants visit the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, Aug. 18, 2014. (Flash90)

Birthright Israel to lower its age limit back to 26

March 8, 2022
Netflixs new Palestinian Stories film collection includes a few dozen noteworthy Palestinian films from the past few decades, including (from left) the Oscar-nominated Omar and Ave Maria, and Giraffada. (Netflix)

On Netflix and elsewhere, new collections of Palestinian and Israeli films are now available for streaming

October 18, 2021
Washington, D.C. Ward 8 councilman Trayon White in 2019. (Photo by Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

D.C. councilmember who once spread Rothschild conspiracy theory is running for mayor

October 13, 2021
Vladimir Friedman and Maria Belkin in Golden Voices. (Music Box Films)

In ‘Golden Voices,’ Russian movie dubbers reinvent themselves in Israel, to hilarious effect

October 8, 2021
Two Auschwitz prisoners escape in a scene from The Auschwitz Report. (Samuel Goldwyn Films)

‘The Auschwitz Report’: Slovakian film follows real-life escapees who tried to warn the world

September 24, 2021
Members and supporters of the United Teachers of Los Angeles union wave and cheer in a downtown Los Angeles park at the end of a strike, Jan. 22, 2019. In September 2021, the union will vote on a controversial resolution to back the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement targeting Israel. (Scott Heins/Getty Images)

Major teachers’ unions are pushing the pro-Palestinian cause — and receiving major pushback

July 8, 2021
An interview subject from Final Account (Courtesy of Focus Features LLC)

Surviving former Nazis give their ‘Final Account’ in new documentary

May 21, 2021

Meet the longtime Jewish labor activist going up against Amazon in Alabama

April 6, 2021
Evangelicals

What do evangelicals want with Israel? A new documentary goes looking for answers.

March 16, 2021
The Eventbrite listing for the Dallas Jewish Conservatives mask-burning party promotes light refreshments. Organizers said kosher food would be available. (Screenshot)

Dallas Jewish Conservatives plan ‘mask-burning’ party to celebrate end of Texas mandate

March 4, 2021
Nurses

NBC under fire for portrayal of Orthodox Jews on Canadian series ‘Nurses’

February 24, 2021
Austin resident Sam Robinson celebrates becoming a bar mitzvah in his backyard after a power outage at his synagogue from Winter Storm Uri scrapped his plans to read from three Torahs on the bimah. (Photo courtesy of the Robinson family)

In a Texas battered by cold, Jewish communities join a desperately needed response

February 18, 2021
Arizona Post

Arizona Jewish Post shuts down after 75 years

February 11, 2021
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