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Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, left, meets with Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau in Warsaw, March 22, 2023. (Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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
Darryl Strawberry visited Israel for the first time in 2018. (Courtesy of Strawberry)

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

Gabe Friedman, JTA
Published March 8, 2023
Robert Nemiroff and Lorraine Hansberry were married from 1953-62. They are shown here in 1959. (Ben Martin/Getty Images)

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
Helen Mirren as Golda Meir in Guy Nattivs film Golda. (Jasper Wolf)

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
Jan 26, 2023; Brooklyn, New York, USA; Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving (11) reacts during the fourth quarter against the Detroit Pistons at Barclays Center. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports

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

Gabe Friedman, JTA
Published February 6, 2023
This is the official State Department photo for Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, taken at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on February 9, 2021. [State Department Photo by Ronny Przysucha/ Public Domain]

Antony Blinken quotes from Jewish prayer during crucial Israel visit

Gabe Friedman
Published January 31, 2023
Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff participate in a virtual White House seder, March 25, 2021. (Screen shot)

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

18 notable Jews who died in 2022

CALEB GUEDES-REED and GABE FRIEDMAN
Published December 30, 2022
Volodymyr Zelensky pictured during a a welcoming ceremony in Kyiv, Nov. 26, 2022. (Philip Reynaers / Pool / Photonews via Getty Images)

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

Caleb Guedes-Reed and Gabe Friedman
Published December 7, 2022
Latkes have not always been made of potatoes. (Shutterstock)

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Gabe Friedman, JTA
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’

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

The story of Theodore Roosevelt’s two Menorahs

Gabe Friedman
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

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
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.

Gabe Friedman
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

JTA
Published October 4, 2021
Is Alicia Silvestone Jewish?

Is Alicia Silvestone Jewish?

JTA
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

Jordan Palmer and JTA
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’

Gabe Friedman
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

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

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

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

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

JTA
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

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

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

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
Veena Malik in 2019 (Wikimedia Commons)

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

GABE FRIEDMAN
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

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’

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
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

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

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
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

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
shoe

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
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

Gabe Friedman
Published April 6, 2021
Spirit Airlines

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

Gabe Friedman
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’

Gabe Friedman
Published April 6, 2021
Robert Marx

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

Gabe Friedman
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

Gabe Friedman
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

Gabe Friedman
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

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

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
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

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
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

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
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

Gabe Friedman
Published March 22, 2021

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

Gabe Friedman
Published March 19, 2021
(Screen shot from Twitter)

Soup Nazi Kitchen restaurant name provokes anger — and vandalism

Gabe Friedman
Published March 18, 2021
Fleishman

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

Gabe Friedman
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

Gabe Friedman
Published March 11, 2021
Dec 25, 2020; Miami, Florida, USA; Miami Heat center Meyers Leonard (0) dribbles the ball against the New Orleans Pelicans during the second half at American Airlines Arena. Mandatory Credit: Jasen Vinlove-USA TODAY Sports

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

Gabe Friedman
Published March 11, 2021
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

These were Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s favorite opera arias

Gabe Friedman
Published March 11, 2021

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

Gabe Friedman
Published March 10, 2021

Steven Spielberg is writing and directing a movie based on himself

Gabe Friedman
Published March 10, 2021

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

Gabe Friedman
Published March 9, 2021

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

Gabe Friedman
Published March 9, 2021

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

Gabe Friedman
Published March 9, 2021

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

Gabe Friedman
Published March 7, 2021

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

Gabe Friedman
Published March 4, 2021
Amazon

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

Gabe Friedman
Published March 2, 2021
Judo Friends

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

Gabe Friedman
Published March 2, 2021

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

Gabe Friedman
Published March 2, 2021
Shtisel

‘Shtisel’ Season 3 Netflix release date announced

Gabe Friedman
Published March 2, 2021
Ferris University

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

Gabe Friedman
Published March 1, 2021

Shira Haas to play Golda Meir in American TV series

Gabe Friedman
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

Gabe Friedman
Published March 1, 2021

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

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

NJ teen confesses to spearheading plot to vandalize Midwestern synagogues

Gabe Friedman
Published February 28, 2021

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

Gabe Friedman
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

Gabe Friedman
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

Gabe Friedman
Published February 25, 2021
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