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Kanye West’s album with antisemitic lyric and long list of famous collaborators on track to debut Friday

Gabe Friedman, JTA
Published December 12, 2023

‘I did not fact check’: Supermodel Gigi Hadid apologizes for claiming Israel abducts and rapes Palestinians

Gabe Friedman, JTA
Published November 28, 2023

German daycare named for Anne Frank changing its name to be more diverse

Gabe Friedman, JTA
Published November 6, 2023

Adam Sandler, Amy Schumer and long list of celebs ask Biden to keep pushing for release of Israeli hostages

Gabe Friedman, JTA
Published October 24, 2023

U2’s Bono changes lyrics in tribute to Israeli music festival victims of Hamas attack

Gabe Friedman, JTA
Published October 9, 2023

As ‘Maestro’ hits screens, many Jewish fans don’t care about ‘Jewface’ controversy

Gabe Friedman, JTA
Published October 3, 2023

Makeup artist apologizes over prosthetic nose worn by Bradley Cooper in ‘Maestro’ film

Gabe Friedman, JTA
Published September 5, 2023

Adam Sandler’s ‘You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah’ is a bona fide hit

Gabe Friedman, JTA
Published September 1, 2023

A Nazi pamphlet controversy looms large in a German election

Gabe Friedman, JTA
Published August 30, 2023

ADL to TMZ: Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein nose in ‘Maestro’ is not antisemitic

Gabe Friedman, JTA
Published August 22, 2023

Saudi Arabia appoints first Palestinian envoy as Saudi-Israel normalization talks continue

GABE FRIEDMAN, JTA
Published August 15, 2023

David Corenswet, the next Superman, was married by a rabbi and a priest

Gabe Friedman, JTA
Published August 9, 2023

Russia labels Moscow’s former chief rabbi a ‘foreign agent’

Gabe Friedman, JTA
Published July 3, 2023

‘Jeopardy!’ featured a suburban Detroit synagogue once called ‘a concrete Sinai on the shoulder of Interstate 696’

Gabe Friedman, JTA
Published June 21, 2023

Zelensky responds to Putin by calling him ‘second king of antisemitism after Hitler’

Gabe Friedman, JTA
Published June 21, 2023

Putin: My Jewish friends say Zelensky is ‘not Jewish’

Gabe Friedman, JTA
Published June 16, 2023

US State Department calls recent Roger Waters concert ‘antisemitic’

Gabe Friedman, JTA
Published June 7, 2023

Israeli health ministry calls out Elon Musk for sharing ‘fake news’ on COVID-19

GABE FRIEDMAN, JTA
Published May 30, 2023

Protester with Israeli flag storms stage at Roger Waters concert in Frankfurt

Gabe Friedman, JTA
Published May 29, 2023

Could Steven Spielberg be bringing ‘Leopoldstadt,’ to television?

Gabe Friedman
Published May 23, 2023

New film ‘Jerusalem 67’ will chronicle Israel’s Six-Day War victory

Gabe Friedman, JTA
Published May 15, 2023

Jason Schwartzman is a cantor and Carol Kane is his bat mitzvah student in comedy ‘Between the Temples’

Gabe Friedman, JTA
Published May 11, 2023

Netflix’s ‘Rough Diamonds’ brings viewers into the drama of Antwerp’s Orthodox diamond district

Gabe Friedman, JTA
Published April 27, 2023

50,000 Hasidic Jews flood tiny Hungarian town for ‘miracle rabbi’ pilgrimage

Gabe Friedman, JTA
Published April 26, 2023

Seymour Stein, Jewish music mogul who discovered Madonna and The Ramones, dies at 80

Gabe Friedman, JTA
Published April 3, 2023

Israel says ‘crisis’ with Poland is over as the countries agree to resume student trips to Holocaust sites

Gabe Friedman, JTA
Published March 24, 2023

St. Louisan Darryl Strawberry is now an evangelical preacher focused on promoting Israel

Gabe Friedman, JTA
Published March 8, 2023

Lorraine Hansberry’s second play had a white Jewish protagonist. Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan are reviving it.

Gabe Friedman, JTA
Published March 1, 2023

A Golda Meir biopic starring Helen Mirren avoids politics. It premiered as Israel’s government faces widespread scrutiny.

Gabe Friedman, JTA
Published February 22, 2023

Kyrie Irving traded to Dallas Mavericks, whose Jewish owner Mark Cuban spoke out on antisemitism scandal

Gabe Friedman, JTA
Published February 6, 2023

Antony Blinken quotes from Jewish prayer during crucial Israel visit

Gabe Friedman
Published January 31, 2023

Doug Emhoff will visit Oskar Schindler’s factory during Poland and Germany visit

Gabe Friedman, JTA
Published January 26, 2023

18 notable Jews who died in 2022

CALEB GUEDES-REED and GABE FRIEDMAN
Published December 30, 2022

Volodymyr Zelensky named Time’s ‘person of the year’

Caleb Guedes-Reed and Gabe Friedman
Published December 7, 2022

The true story of the modern latke – a shocking timeline

Gabe Friedman, JTA
Published December 1, 2022

Leonard Cohen’s 1973 Yom Kippur War concerts to be dramatized in TV series by ‘Shtisel’ writer

Gabe Friedman, JTA
Published November 28, 2022

ADL, Adidas to partner on fighting antisemitism in sports

Gabe Friedman, JTA
Published November 10, 2022

No. 1 on Adam Sandler’s bucket list? Going to Israel for the first time.

GABE FRIEDMAN, JTA
Published September 22, 2022

What you need to know about Highland Park, the very Jewish Chicago suburb rattled by July 4 shooting

GABE FRIEDMAN, JTA
Published July 5, 2022

LeBron James attends Jewish NYC wedding — holding hands with a notorious rabbi

Gabe Friedman, JTA
Published May 23, 2022

In 4 years, Volodymyr Zelensky went from Jewish comedian to Putin’s ‘No. 1 enemy’

GABE FRIEDMAN, JTA
Published February 25, 2022

The story of Theodore Roosevelt’s two Menorahs

Gabe Friedman
Published November 27, 2021

‘The French Dispatch,’ out today, is Wes Anderson’s most Jewish film yet

Gabe Friedman
Published October 24, 2021

Holocaust survivor who called himself ‘The Happiest Man on Earth’ dies at 101

Gabe Friedman
Published October 12, 2021

HBO picks up film about boxer who escaped Auschwitz death march

Gabe Friedman
Published October 6, 2021

Dave Chapelle’s jokes about world-conquering ‘Space Jews’ in new Netflix special

Gabe Friedman
Published October 6, 2021

Adam Sandler is Gen Z’s favorite celebrity

Gabe Friedman
Published October 6, 2021

A CDC study finds that camp amid COVID-19 can be safe. Its evidence comes from Camp Ramah.

Gabe Friedman
Published October 5, 2021

Amid antisemitism concerns, 101 local Jewish federations to spend $54M on improving security

JTA
Published October 4, 2021

Is Alicia Silvestone Jewish?

JTA
Published October 3, 2021

The remarkable true story of the Great Knish War of 1916

Jordan Palmer and JTA
Published October 3, 2021

Sarah Sherman, the latest Jewish actor on ‘SNL,’ compares her dad to Adam Sandler in ‘Uncut Gems’

Gabe Friedman
Published September 30, 2021

Alana Haim makes acting debut in star-studded Paul Thomas Anderson film

Gabe Friedman
Published September 28, 2021

Kathryn Hahn’s next Jewish role: Joan Rivers

Gabe Friedman
Published September 23, 2021

Emmys 2021: ‘Ted Lasso’ star, ‘Queen’s Gambit’ director make up few Jewish wins, while acceptance speech angers crowd

Gabe Friedman
Published September 20, 2021

Politico employees will not have to sign their new parent company’s pro-Israel mission statement

Gabe Friedman
Published August 31, 2021

Ed Asner, who starred as Lou Grant, dies at 91

JTA
Published August 29, 2021

GOP congressman compares COVID measures to Holocaust, prompting an intern’s resignation

JTA
Published August 27, 2021

18 Orthodox Jewish girls pulled off New York-bound flight in Amsterdam in dispute over COVID protocols

jta
Published August 8, 2021

Hezbollah fires 19 rockets at Israel in worst fighting since 2006 war

JTA
Published August 6, 2021

Desus and Mero get a bar mitzvah (of sorts), with the help of Eric Andre and an NYC rabbi

Gabe Friedman and Philissa Cramer
Published August 6, 2021

Billie Eilish promotes her new album to Israelis, and draws social media ire

Gabe Friedman, JTA
Published August 1, 2021

Elie Kligman becomes second Orthodox baseball player drafted into the MLB in 2 days

GABE FRIEDMAN
Published July 13, 2021

Israel strikes more Hamas sites as incendiary balloons continue from Gaza

GABE FRIEDMAN
Published June 17, 2021

Sarah Silverman wishes Ilhan Omar’s ‘Squad’ of lawmakers included a ‘progressive Jewess’

Gabe Friedman
Published June 17, 2021

Incendiary balloons from Gaza prompt new Israeli airstrikes

JTA
Published June 16, 2021

Palestinians clash with Israeli police outside Al-Aqsa Mosque hours after ceasefire

Gabe Friedman, JTA
Published May 21, 2021

Pakistani movie star tweets Hitler quote about killing Jews in response to Israel-Gaza violence

GABE FRIEDMAN
Published May 12, 2021

Escalating rocket fire between Gaza and Israel leaves 2 Israelis and at least 20 Palestinians dead

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ and GABE FRIEDMAN
Published May 11, 2021

Violence rages in West Bank and Jerusalem, as dozens are injured in police clashes and Palestinian attackers are killed in shootout

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ and GABE FRIEDMAN
Published May 7, 2021

Actor Lakeith Stanfield moderated a Clubhouse room full of anti-Semitism

GABE FRIEDMAN
Published May 7, 2021

The first 10 Jewish documentaries funded by Steven Spielberg’s new foundation

Gabe Friedman
Published April 30, 2021

Mandy Patinkin breaks down in tears when he learns that he lost family in the Holocaust on ‘Finding Your Roots’

GABE FRIEDMAN
Published April 26, 2021

Oscars 2021: Jewish nominees (nearly) strike out

Gabe Friedman
Published April 25, 2021

Israeli artist sets Guinness World Record for longest megillah scroll

Gabe Friedman
Published April 23, 2021

Netflix acquires Israeli show about a school shooting

GABE FRIEDMAN
Published April 23, 2021

Israel closes deal for millions more Pfizer vaccines and adds Moderna

Gabe Friedman
Published April 21, 2021

Oscar-nominated filmmakers to produce documentary on French Nazi hunters Serge and Beate Klarsfeld

Gabe Friedman
Published April 20, 2021

Steven Spielberg launches foundation to fund Jewish-themed documentaries

Gabe Friedman
Published April 16, 2021

Before Helen Mirren plays Golda Meir, here are 7 other stars who have played Israeli prime ministers

Gabe Friedman
Published April 9, 2021

Lee Zeldin, leading Jewish pro-Trump voice in Congress, announces run for NY governor

Gabe Friedman
Published April 8, 2021

Deni Avdija writes ‘will remember’ in Hebrew on sneakers for game on eve of Israel’s Holocaust remembrance day

Gabe Friedman
Published April 8, 2021

Pfizer reportedly halts shipment of 700,000 COVID vaccine doses to Israel after it fails to pay

Gabe Friedman
Published April 7, 2021

NBA great Paul Pierce talks of love of Shabbat in racy video timed to firing by ESPN

Gabe Friedman
Published April 6, 2021

Spirit Airlines kicks Jewish family off plane, then allows them back on following mask altercation

Gabe Friedman
Published April 6, 2021

Helen Mirren to play Golda Meir in upcoming film ‘Golda’

Gabe Friedman
Published April 6, 2021

Rabbi Robert Marx, social justice pioneer who marched with Martin Luther King, dies at 93

Gabe Friedman
Published April 4, 2021

The last known Jew in Afghanistan is leaving

Gabe Friedman
Published April 4, 2021

How Duolingo created a Yiddish course with a secular scholar and Hasidic Jews from Brooklyn

Gabe Friedman
Published April 1, 2021

Sabra hummus recalls over 2,000 containers from 16 states over salmonella outbreak

Gabe Friedman
Published April 1, 2021

Yemen’s Jewish population, once over 50,000, drops to below 10

Gabe Friedman
Published March 31, 2021

Christian Passover seder with challah braided in the shape of a cross draws Twitter anger

Gabe Friedman
Published March 30, 2021

Bahrain appoints first ambassador to Israel

Gabe Friedman
Published March 30, 2021

Clubhouse and BuzzFeed’s Passover event will feature a digital afikomen tonight

Gabe Friedman
Published March 26, 2021

The University of Chicago was just gifted the largest private collection of antique Haggadahs. Here are a few of them.

Gabe Friedman
Published March 26, 2021

Steven Spielberg casts Seth Rogen to play his ‘favorite uncle’ in upcoming semi-biopic

Gabe Friedman
Published March 25, 2021

‘The world’s largest legal’ Jewish party: How Taiwan’s small Jewish community expanded during COVID

Gabe Friedman
Published March 24, 2021

NJ newspaper fires photographer for caption calling Orthodox nurse a ‘total JAP’

Gabe Friedman
Published March 24, 2021

‘A total JAP’: NJ newspaper apologizes for using anti-Semitic epithet in photo caption

Gabe Friedman
Published March 22, 2021

A Jewish-Asian young adult grieves a lost senior year, and so much more

Gabe Friedman
Published March 22, 2021