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

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

Published July 5, 2022
LeBron James attends Jewish NYC wedding — holding hands with a notorious rabbi

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

Published May 23, 2022
Ukraines President Volodymyr Zelensky holds a press conference on Russias military operation in Ukraine, Feb. 25, 2022. (Presidency of Ukraine/Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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

Published February 25, 2022
The story of Theodore Roosevelts two Menorahs

The story of Theodore Roosevelt’s two Menorahs

Published November 27, 2021
Benicio del Toro, center, as painter Moses Rosenthaler, and Léa Seydoux, right, as the prison guard Simone in The French Dispatch. (Searchlight Pictures)

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

Published October 24, 2021

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

Published October 12, 2021

HBO picks up film about boxer who escaped Auschwitz death march

Published October 6, 2021

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

Published October 6, 2021

Adam Sandler is Gen Z’s favorite celebrity

Published October 6, 2021
The waterfront at Camp Ramah in the Berkshires includes a wide variety of inflatable toys and surf kayaks. (Uriel Heilman)

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

Published October 5, 2021
Amid antisemitism concerns, 101 local Jewish federations to spend $54M on improving security

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

Published October 4, 2021
Is Alicia Silvestone Jewish?

Is Alicia Silvestone Jewish?

Published October 3, 2021
The remarkable true story of the Great Knish War of 1916

The remarkable true story of the Great Knish War of 1916

Published October 3, 2021
Sarah Sherman in a video posted to YouTube that she claims was a Saturday Night Live audition. (Screen shot)

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

Published September 30, 2021
Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman in a promotional poster image for Licorice Pizza. (MGM)

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

Published September 28, 2021

Kathryn Hahn’s next Jewish role: Joan Rivers

Published September 23, 2021

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

Published September 20, 2021

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

Published August 31, 2021
American actor Ed Asner as newspaper editor Lou Grant in the US TV show The Mary Tyler Moore Show, circa 1975. (Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)

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

Published August 29, 2021
GOP congressman compares COVID measures to Holocaust, prompting an intern’s resignation

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

Published August 27, 2021
18 Orthodox Jewish girls pulled off New York-bound flight in Amsterdam in dispute over COVID protocols

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

Published August 8, 2021
Hezbollah fires 19 rockets at Israel in worst fighting since 2006 war

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

Published August 6, 2021
From left: Comedian Eric Andre, Desus Nice and The Kid Mero are seen in The Village Temple in New York City during an episode of Desus & Mero. (Screenshot from YouTube)

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

Published August 6, 2021

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

Published August 1, 2021
Elie Kligman becomes second Orthodox baseball player drafted into the MLB in 2 days

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

Published July 13, 2021
Men prepare incendiary balloons near Gaza city to launch across the border fence towards Israel, June 16, 2021. (Fatima Shbair/Getty Images)

Israel strikes more Hamas sites as incendiary balloons continue from Gaza

Published June 17, 2021

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

Published June 17, 2021
Incendiary balloons from Gaza prompt new Israeli airstrikes

Incendiary balloons from Gaza prompt new Israeli airstrikes

Published June 16, 2021

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

Published May 21, 2021
Veena Malik in 2019 (Wikimedia Commons)

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

Published May 12, 2021
An Israeli firefighter extinguishes a burning car after a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed in the city of Ashkelon, southern Israel, May 11, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

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

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

Published May 7, 2021

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

Published May 7, 2021

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

Published April 30, 2021
Mandy Patinkin breaks down in tears when he learns that he lost family in the Holocaust on ‘Finding Your Roots’

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

Published April 26, 2021

Oscars 2021: Jewish nominees (nearly) strike out

Published April 25, 2021
Avner Moriah said it took him 15 years to complete the Ganze Megillah. (Rahn Sas)

Israeli artist sets Guinness World Record for longest megillah scroll

Published April 23, 2021
A screenshot from the Blackspace trailer. (YouTube)

Netflix acquires Israeli show about a school shooting

Published April 23, 2021
A medical worker prepares a coronavirus vaccine at Barzilai Medical Center in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, Dec. 20, 2020. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel closes deal for millions more Pfizer vaccines and adds Moderna

Published April 21, 2021
Serge and Beate Klarsfeld in Paris, Feb. 3, 1978. (Herve Lerch/AFP via Getty Images)

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

Published April 20, 2021
Stephen Spielberg and Kate Capshaw attend the 2018 Arthur Miller Foundation Honors at City Winery in New York City, Oct. 22, 2018. (Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

Steven Spielberg launches foundation to fund Jewish-themed documentaries

Published April 16, 2021
28th February 1973: Welsh actor Anthony Hopkins attends the SF&TV (Society of Film and Television Arts, later the BAFTA) awards at the Royal Albert Hall in London. He recently portrayed Count Pierre Bezuhov in the British television production of War and Peace. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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

Published April 9, 2021

NBA player Meyers Leonard to speak about his anti-Semitism controversy at U of Miami Hillel event

Published April 8, 2021

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

Published April 8, 2021
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Deni Avdija writes ‘will remember’ in Hebrew on sneakers for game on eve of Israel’s Holocaust remembrance day

Published April 8, 2021

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

Published April 7, 2021
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - FEBRUARY 15: Paul Pierce attends Stance Spades At NBA All-Star 2020 at City Hall on February 15, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Johnny Nunez/Getty Images for Stance)

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

Published April 6, 2021
Spirit Airlines

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

Published April 6, 2021
BERLIN, GERMANY - FEBRUARY 27: Helen Mirren arrives for the Homage Helen Mirren Honorary Golden Bear award ceremony during the 70th Berlinale International Film Festival Berlin at Berlinale Palace on February 27, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. Helen Mirren is this years recipient of the Honorary Golden Bear Award of the Berlinale. (Photo by Thomas Niedermueller/WireImage)

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

Published April 6, 2021
Robert Marx

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

Published April 4, 2021
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - SEPTEMBER 18: Zebulon Simantov reads his old tatered hebrew prayer book as he celebrates the Jewish New Year feast of Rosh Hashanah September 18, 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Zebulon, 57, claims to be the last Jew living in the war-torn conservative Muslim country and says he keeps a Kosher home. The Jewish New Year, or Rosh Hashanah, coincides this year with Eid al-Fitr, a Muslim feast marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. Born in northwestern Herat, Simantov attended Hebrew school before moving to Kabul at age 27. In 1992, he fled to Tajikistan, fleeing from Afghanistans growing violence, married a Tajik Jew and had two daughters. The family immigrated in 1998 to Israel, but he returned to Kabul two months later, leaving them behind. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

The last known Jew in Afghanistan is leaving

Published April 4, 2021
Duolingo is giving users who order in Yiddish a free bagel on the course launch date. (Duolingo)

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

Published April 1, 2021
Cases of Sabra hummus seen in 2015. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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

Published April 1, 2021

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

Published March 31, 2021
Christian Passover

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

Published March 30, 2021

Bahrain appoints first ambassador to Israel

Published March 30, 2021
Four pieces of matzah or matza on a vintage wood background with copy space or text space. Perfect for your Passover design.

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

Published March 26, 2021

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

Published March 26, 2021
Seth Rogen at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, Feb. 29, 2020 in New York City. (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)

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

Published March 25, 2021

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

Published March 24, 2021
(Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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

Published March 24, 2021
(Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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

Published March 22, 2021
Gen Slosberg, left, and Jenni Rudolph founded the Lunar Project. (Courtesy of Lunar)

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

Published March 22, 2021

An American ‘Shtisel’ remake is coming directed by acclaimed Jewish filmmaker Kenneth Lonergan

Published March 19, 2021
(Screen shot from Twitter)

Soup Nazi Kitchen restaurant name provokes anger — and vandalism

Published March 18, 2021
Fleishman

TV adaptation of ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble’ novel to stream on Hulu

Published March 11, 2021
A model walks the runway during La Perla Fall/Winter 2017 RTW Show at SIR Stage 37 on February 9, 2017 in New York City.

Coming off ‘Unorthodox’ success, Netflix announces ‘My Unorthodox Life,’ series based on ex-haredi fashion mogul Julia Haart

Published March 11, 2021
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JANUARY 12: Meyers Leonard #0 of the Miami Heat looks on during the second half of the game against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden on January 12, 2020 in New York City. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images)

NBA fines Meyers Leonard $50,000 for using anti-Semitic slur

Published March 11, 2021
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

These were Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s favorite opera arias

Published March 11, 2021
FOXBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS - JANUARY 04: Julian Edelman #11 of the New England Patriots warms up on the field before playing against the Tennessee Titans in the AFC Wild Card Playoff game at Gillette Stadium on January 04, 2020 in Foxborough, Massachusetts. (Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)

Julian Edelman invites Meyers Leonard to Shabbat dinner after he apologizes for anti-Semitic slur

Published March 10, 2021
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 09: Director Steven Spielberg speaks onstage during the 92nd Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre on February 09, 2020 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Steven Spielberg is writing and directing a movie based on himself

Published March 10, 2021
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 09: Meyers Leonard #0 of the Miami Heat warms up before the game against the Washington Wizards at Capital One Arena on January 9, 2021 in Washington, DC. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Scott Taetsch/Getty Images)

NBA player Meyers Leonard caught using anti-Semitic slur on video game platform

Published March 9, 2021
AMHERST - OCTOBER 18: Author Norton Juster at his home. (Photo by Bill Greene/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Norton Juster, ‘The Phantom Tollbooth’ writer who grew up reading Yiddish novels, dies at 91

Published March 9, 2021

From ‘Seinfeld’ to WWII Morocco, these new Haggadah options will spice up your Passover Seder

Published March 9, 2021
(Photo by Chris Delmas / AFP) (Photo credit should read CHRIS DELMAS/AFP via Getty Images)

Drake raps ‘I should probably go to yeshiva’ on new single

Published March 7, 2021
CAMDEN, NJ - SEPTEMBER 13: Charles Barkley speaks at the podium prior to his sculpture being unveiled at the Philadelphia 76ers training facility on September 13, 2019 in Camden, New Jersey. (Photo by Mitchell Leff/Getty Images)

Charles Barkley jokes about losing weight to dance the hora at daughter’s Jewish wedding

Published March 4, 2021
Amazon

Amazon alters app logo that drew comparisons to Hitler’s mustache

Published March 2, 2021
Judo Friends

Story of friendship between Israeli and Iranian judo champions being made into TV show

Published March 2, 2021
Iranian-born Mongolian judoka Saeid Mollaei competes during the finals of the mens under 81kg category of Tel Aviv Grand Slam 2021 in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv, on February 19, 2021. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Iran’s international judo ban for avoiding Israeli athletes is dropped

Published March 2, 2021
Shtisel

‘Shtisel’ Season 3 Netflix release date announced

Published March 2, 2021
Ferris University

Michigan university fires professor for anti-Semitic and racist social media posts

Published March 1, 2021
Shira Haas (Photo by Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for CHANEL)

Shira Haas to play Golda Meir in American TV series

Published March 1, 2021
Palestinian Health worker takes samples for Coronavirus at a health center in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on February 16, 2021. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90

Israel to start vaccinating Palestinians who work in Israel and West Bank within days, military says

Published March 1, 2021
UNSPECIFIED - FEBRUARY 28: In this handout screengrab Sacha Baron Cohen, winner of the Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy during the 78th Annual Golden Globe Virtual General Press Room on February 28, 2021. (Photo by Handout/HFPA via Getty Images)

Golden Globes: Sacha Baron Cohen wins big, and other fun Jewish moments

Published March 1, 2021
The flag of The Base. (Wikimedia Commons)

NJ teen confesses to spearheading plot to vandalize Midwestern synagogues

Published February 28, 2021
The Israeli-owned Helios Ray cargo ship docks in Dubais Mina Rashid port, Feb. 28, 2021, after sustaining a mysterious explosion. (Giuseppe Cacace/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel-owned ship suffers explosion in Gulf of Oman, raising suspicions about Iran

Published February 28, 2021
A Pfizer COVID vaccine syringe seen in Jerusalem, Dec. 10, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90) 

Israel’s plan to deliver vaccines to Palestinians and allies is on hold

Published February 28, 2021
In the film, Yakov agrees to watch over a recently deceased body, a ritual in Orthodox Judaism known as shemira. (Courtesy of IFC Midnight)

Mazzik, not dybbuk: Horror film ‘The Vigil’ brings Jewish demonology to the big screen

Published February 25, 2021
A scene from Nurses, which aired on NBC on Feb. 9, 2021. (Screen shot from YouTube)

NBC pulls episode of ‘Nurses’ show after backlash over its portrayal of Orthodox Jews

Published February 25, 2021
LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 27: Azealia Banks performs at Electric Brixton on January 27, 2019 in London, England. RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE ONLY (Photo by Burak Cingi/Redferns)

‘I’m Jewish now’: Rapper Azealia Banks ignites social media storm with wedding announcement

Published February 23, 2021
English actor Sacha Baron Cohen speaks on stage during the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Annual Grants Banquet at The Beverly Wilshire, in Beverly Hills on July 31, 2019. (Photo by Valerie MACON / AFP) (Photo credit should read VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)

Sacha Baron Cohen says his days of disguise pranks are over

Published February 23, 2021
Amos Oz, Israeli writer, Monforte Dalba, Italy, 15th October 2016. (Photo by Leonardo Cendamo/Getty Images)

Amos Oz’s daughter claims he physically abused her

Published February 22, 2021
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 13: Gina Carano attends the premiere of Disney+s The Mandalorian at El Capitan Theatre on November 13, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Rodin Eckenroth/FilmMagic)

Gina Carano says the social media post that got her fired from ‘The Mandalorian’ was not comparing conservatives to Jews during Holocaust

Published February 22, 2021
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ - DECEMBER 22: Pittsburgh Steelers offensive tackle Zach Banner (72) prior to the National Football League game between the New York Jets and the Pittsburgh Steelers on December 22, 2019 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ. (Photo by Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Zach Banner and other Black athletes hold online panel about fighting anti-Semitism

Published February 18, 2021
Haas, Ossoff, Doja Cat

Jon Ossoff, Shira Haas and Doja Cat make Time’s 100 emerging leaders list

Published February 18, 2021
NEW YORK - JUNE 11: Ari Gold performs the 10th Annual amfAR Honoring with Pride celebration at The Edison Ballroom on June 11, 2009 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

Ari Gold, yeshiva student-turned-pop star and LGBTQ icon, dies of cancer at 47

Published February 16, 2021
Dr. Anthony Fauci listens to US President Joe Biden (out of frame) speak during a visit to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, February 11, 2021. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Fauci wins $1 million Israeli prize for ‘courageously defending science’ during pandemic

Published February 16, 2021

‘Who are we?’: Asian American Jews explore their identities in a new video project

Published February 14, 2021
HALLANDALE, FLORIDA - JANUARY 23: Amare Stoudemire attends the 2021 Pegasus World Cup Championship Invitational Series at Gulfstream Park on January 23, 2021 in Hallandale Beach, Florida. (Photo by Alexander Tamargo/Getty Images for The Stronach Group)

Amar’e Stoudemire travels everywhere with an antique golden menorah

Published February 11, 2021
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 13: Gina Carano attends the premiere of Disney+s The Mandalorian at El Capitan Theatre on November 13, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Rodin Eckenroth/FilmMagic)

‘Mandalorian’ star Gina Carano fired after comparing today’s political climate to the Holocaust

Published February 11, 2021
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