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All content by Josefin Dolsten

Jewish Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on his feud with Trump and becoming a sex symbol

Josefin Dolsten
Published October 25, 2019

Elijah Cummings, congressman who built bridges between African-American and Jewish communities, dies at 68

Josefin Dolsten
Published October 17, 2019

Meet a Hebrew-school teacher turned blackjack dealer in Las Vegas

Josefin Dolsten
Published October 11, 2019

What is Twitch, the site where the Germany synagogue shooter livestreamed his attack?

Josefin Dolsten
Published October 10, 2019

Las Vegas rabbi on what it’s like to lead a synagogue in ‘Sin City’

Josefin Dolsten
Published October 3, 2019

Brooklyn synagogue’s windows broken during Rosh Hashanah prayers

Josefin Dolsten
Published October 2, 2019

Netanyahu’s pre-indictment hearings start

Josefin Dolsten
Published October 2, 2019
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin addresses staff and students at the the Robert M. Beren Machanaim Hesder Yeshiva, Sept. 1, 2019. (Gershon Ellinson)

Netanyahu didn’t win Israel’s election. So why is he getting the chance to form a government?

Josefin Dolsten
Published September 26, 2019

‘Why is it that I can’t say something against the Jews?’ Malaysia’s leader asks at Columbia

Josefin Dolsten
Published September 25, 2019

Malaysia’s prime minister, who said he is proud to be called anti-Semitic, is speaking at Columbia University

Josefin Dolsten
Published September 24, 2019
Amare Stoudemire is leading an initiative to connect Jewish and African-American students at Florida International University. (Courtesy of FIU Hillel) 

Amar’e Stoudemire is now an undergrad, goes to his campus Hillel and wants to boost black-Jewish relations

Josefin Dolsten
Published September 18, 2019

New Women’s March board member has called Israel a ‘racist’ state that ‘engages in terrorism’

Josefin Dolsten
Published September 16, 2019
Sacha Baron Cohen as Eli Cohen in The Spy. (Screenshot from Netflix)

The real story behind ‘The Spy,’ Sacha Baron Cohen’s new Netflix series

Josefin Dolsten
Published September 6, 2019

7 men sue 2 NY Jewish day schools for alleged abuse by former teacher

Josefin Dolsten
Published September 5, 2019

Scarlett Johansson on abuse allegations against Woody Allen: ‘I believe him’

Josefin Dolsten
Published September 5, 2019
Jesse Freedmans The Talmud draws inspiration from the Jewish canon and Chinese martial art films. (Courtesy of Freedman) 

There’s a lot you can learn about the Talmud from kung fu movies, according to a new play

Josefin Dolsten
Published September 4, 2019

ADL speaks out against Jewish publication over articles attacking LGBTQ community

Josefin Dolsten
Published August 30, 2019
Johnny Arbid, left, plays the grieving father of a slain Palestinian teen in Our Boys. (Ran Mendelson/HBO) 

Why HBO’s series on the revenge murder of a Palestinian teen is causing controversy

Josefin Dolsten
Published August 28, 2019

Why most Jews in Hong Kong are not involved with the protests

Josefin Dolsten
Published August 27, 2019

Trump: Jews who vote for Democrats show ‘great disloyalty’

Josefin Dolsten
Published August 20, 2019
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Fake Twitter accounts are impersonating Jews and promoting anti-Semitism

Josefin Dolsten
Published August 20, 2019

Trump takes a side in Portland’s far-right rally. Some local Jews say it’s the wrong side.

Josefin Dolsten
Published August 20, 2019

After Jewish protesters interrupt Trump rally, president mistakenly mocks one of his supporters

Josefin Dolsten
Published August 16, 2019

‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ 1950s price campaign was so popular the police had to shut it down briefly

Josefin Dolsten
Published August 16, 2019

Netanyahu is considering banning Tlaib and Omar from entering Israel, report says

Josefin Dolsten
Published August 15, 2019

British neo-Nazi earned more than $8,000 from YouTube

Josefin Dolsten
Published August 14, 2019

Israel is planning for the possibility that Omar and Tlaib will visit the Temple Mount

Josefin Dolsten
Published August 14, 2019

NY Orthodox schools are fighting a proposal that would force them to increase secular education

Josefin Dolsten
Published August 13, 2019
From left to right, Rabbis Ben Zeidman and Scott Rosenberg speak at an interfaith vigil with Msgr. Arturo Banuelas following the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, Aug. 4, 2019. (Jordyn Rozensky/ Frontera Studio)

‘We’ve lost a part of ourselves’: El Paso’s diverse Jewish community grapples with a mass shooting

Josefin Dolsten
Published August 7, 2019

Dayton gunman showed video of Pittsburgh synagogue shooting to ex-girlfriend on first date

Josefin Dolsten
Published August 6, 2019

What is 8chan, the site linked to shooters in Christchurch, Poway and El Paso?

Josefin Dolsten
Published August 5, 2019

Gal Gadot to play Jewish actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr in Showtime series

Josefin Dolsten
Published August 2, 2019

Florida man targeted Orthodox Jews in $3 million Ponzi scheme

Josefin Dolsten
Published August 2, 2019

Elijah Cummings started a program that brings African-American teens to Israel

Josefin Dolsten
Published August 1, 2019

Spies, checkpoints and soap opera drama make ‘Tel Aviv on Fire’ a brutally funny comedy about the conflict

Josefin Dolsten
Published July 30, 2019

Elijah Cummings’ district, which Trump derided as ‘disgusting,’ has a significant Jewish population

Josefin Dolsten
Published July 29, 2019

6 years on, the parents of a Jewish Army veteran who committed suicide are still fighting for change

Josefin Dolsten
Published July 25, 2019

6 stunning finds from the Met’s exhibit on medieval Jewish treasure

Josefin Dolsten
Published July 25, 2019

Jerusalem chief rabbi calls homosexuality ‘a wild lust that needs to be overcome’

Josefin Dolsten
Published July 23, 2019

All the times (so far) Trump has invoked Israel and the Jews in his attacks on ‘The Squad’

Josefin Dolsten
Published July 22, 2019

US senators introduce resolution to remember 1994 bombing of Buenos Aires Jewish center

Josefin Dolsten
Published July 18, 2019

Hummus company recalls nearly 100 varieties over Listeria contamination

Josefin Dolsten
Published July 17, 2019
Natasha Lyonne at the Women in Film Annual Gala in Beverly Hills, Calif., June 12, 2019. She’s nominated for best comedy actress for her role in “Russian Doll.” (Emma McIntyre/FilmMagic,)

Emmys 2019: All the Jewish nominees

Josefin Dolsten
Published July 16, 2019

Orthodox newspaper’s editor called African religions ‘primitive’ and gay rights movement ‘evil’

Josefin Dolsten
Published July 15, 2019

How Jews have reacted to Trump’s tweet targeting some Democratic congresswomen

Josefin Dolsten
Published July 15, 2019

Cartoonist disinvited from White House defends image widely labeled as anti-Semitic

Josefin Dolsten
Published July 10, 2019
Rabbi Mira Rivera is passionate about building community among Jews of color. (Josefin Dolsten)

Meet the Filipino-American former professional dancer who is now a rabbi

Josefin Dolsten
Published July 2, 2019
Nitzan Horowitz became the first openly gay person to lead an Israeli party when he was elected leader of Meretz, in Tel Aviv, June 27, 2019. Photo: Gili Yaari/Flash90

Israel’s Meretz party becomes country’s first to elect an openly gay leader

Josefin Dolsten
Published June 27, 2019
Flyers blaming Jews for the sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh were found on a number of college campuses in October, 2018. Photo: StandWithUs

College campuses saw a 7 percent increase in white supremacist fliers this year

Josefin Dolsten
Published June 26, 2019

Nearly 1 in 5 Americans say small businesses should be able to refuse service to Jews, survey finds

Josefin Dolsten
Published June 26, 2019
SketchPad Chicago is a co-working space that incorporates Jewish values and programming. Photo: Josefin Dolsten

This co-working space is a Jewish take on WeWork

Josefin Dolsten
Published June 25, 2019

A former lawmaker hopes HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’ spurs change in Israel

Josefin Dolsten
Published June 24, 2019
Marc Kaufman’s family has been in the fur business in New York for five generations. (Josefin Dolsten)

New York City is considering a ban on fur. Hasidic Jews and Jewish fur dealers aren’t happy.

Josefin Dolsten
Published June 21, 2019

Ruth Bader Ginsburg reads out loud her dissent to ruling allowing 40-foot cross to stand in Maryland

Josefin Dolsten
Published June 20, 2019

Yad Vashem tells Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to ‘learn about concentration camps’

Josefin Dolsten
Published June 20, 2019

It’s Ashkenazi vs. Sephardi Jews in this take on ‘Romeo and Juliet’

Josefin Dolsten
Published June 14, 2019
The NYC Dyke March in 2018. Photo: Ilona Tuominen

Despite DC controversy, other Dyke Marches welcome Jewish Pride flags

Josefin Dolsten
Published June 14, 2019

Jewish comedian Jeff Ross defends Netflix roast of Anne Frank

Josefin Dolsten
Published June 12, 2019

Craving gefilte fish and sushi? A new kosher restaurant combines them in a roll.

Josefin Dolsten
Published June 12, 2019

Why some American Jews pay more than $20,000 to get buried in Israel

Josefin Dolsten
Published June 7, 2019
People take part in the annual Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem, June 6, 2019. Photo: Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90  

52 people detained for attempting to disrupt Jerusalem Pride parade

Josefin Dolsten
Published June 6, 2019

Presidential hopeful Bill de Blasio says anti-Semitism threat comes from right wing

Josefin Dolsten
Published June 5, 2019

France launches project to return Nazi-looted artworks to Jewish families

Josefin Dolsten
Published June 5, 2019
A women converts to Judaism in front of a three-judge Orthodox rabbinic court in Jerusalem. Photo: Flash90

52% of Israelis want it to be easier to convert to Judaism, survey finds

Josefin Dolsten
Published June 4, 2019

Jews of color are chronically undercounted, researchers find

Josefin Dolsten
Published May 30, 2019

One of Manhattan’s few remaining Judaica stores gets ready to close

Josefin Dolsten
Published May 28, 2019
Two Artillery Corps fighters and instructors in Shivta, Israel (Debbie Zimelman)

Photographer provides unique look at life for IDF’s female soldiers

Josefin Dolsten
Published May 28, 2019
Rabbi Lawrence Troster in 2014 (Screenshot via ELI Talks/YouTube)

Rabbi Lawrence Troster, Jewish environmental activist, dies at 65

Josefin Dolsten
Published May 24, 2019
Diane Weil, far left, volunteers at a clinic escort every Friday in Montgomery. (Courtesy of Weil)

A Jewish woman makes a stand at one of Alabama’s last abortion clinics

Josefin Dolsten
Published May 23, 2019

Ex-Missouri governor Eric Greitens will deploy with Navy to Middle East, report says

Josefin Dolsten
Published May 23, 2019

New Jersey man allegedly wanted to shoot pro-Israel marchers

Josefin Dolsten
Published May 22, 2019

How Debra Katz became one of the nation’s top #MeToo lawyers

Josefin Dolsten
Published May 21, 2019

A Chicago couple live like Orthodox Jews – but they’re Christian missionaries

Josefin Dolsten
Published May 17, 2019

A site to order Kaddish for your loved ones takes a page from Nathan Englander’s latest book

Josefin Dolsten
Published May 16, 2019
Jessica Meir is seen in her official NASA portrait. (NASA/Robert Markowitz) 

Swedish-Israeli NASA astronaut Jessica Meir gets ready for her first trip into space

Josefin Dolsten
Published May 8, 2019

Eurovision 2019: What the song contest is all about, and why it’s being held in Israel

Josefin Dolsten
Published May 7, 2019

Israeli restaurant Zahav named best in the US by James Beard Awards

Josefin Dolsten
Published May 7, 2019
Eva.Stories is a dramatized version of the life of Eva Heyman, a 13-year-old Jewish girl killed in Auschwitz. (Screenshot from Eva.Stories on Instagram) 

What teens think of the controversial Holocaust Instagram story

Josefin Dolsten
Published May 3, 2019
Rabbi Uriel Vigler, shown with his wife Shevy, was harassed just days after the attack on a Chabad synagogue in Poway, Calif. (Courtesy of Vigler) 

Man harasses and lunges at Chabad rabbi in NY

Josefin Dolsten
Published April 30, 2019
Mourners leave mementos across the street from the Chabad Community Center in Poway, California a day after a shooter killed a congregant and wounded three others, on April 28, 2019. (Gabrielle Birkner)

How Jewish organizations train people to prevent shootings like the one in Poway

Josefin Dolsten
Published April 29, 2019

Republicans and Democrats hold positive views of Israelis but differ greatly on their government

Josefin Dolsten
Published April 24, 2019

Alabama lawmakers compare abortion to Holocaust in 2 bills

Josefin Dolsten
Published April 24, 2019
The University of Maryland. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

U of Maryland student government won’t change Israel divestment vote scheduled for Passover

Josefin Dolsten
Published April 24, 2019
DePaul University in Chicago. Photo: Kmf164/Wikimedia Commons

DePaul students want ‘immoral’ prof censured for op-ed backing Israel annexation of West Bank

Josefin Dolsten
Published April 24, 2019

Jewish Seagram heiress Clare Bronfman pleads guilty to involvement in ‘sex cult’

Josefin Dolsten
Published April 23, 2019
Rabbi Benay Lappe founded Svara as a space for LGBTQ Jews to study Talmud. It has since become “about changing the world through the insights of queer people but for the benefit of everybody.” (Jess Benjamin)

A Chicago space for LGBTQ Jews becomes a ‘queer yeshiva for everybody’

Josefin Dolsten
Published April 23, 2019
Arkansas Tech University’s Caraway Hall. Photo: Adam Bartlett/Flickr

Is an Arkansas university honoring a Holocaust denier? Jewish faculty and ADL say yes.

Josefin Dolsten
Published April 19, 2019

20 religious groups call on Congress to ‘stop weaponizing anti-Semitism’

Josefin Dolsten
Published April 11, 2019

Here are the issues Israelis had in mind when voting

Josefin Dolsten
Published April 10, 2019
Princeton University (Flickr Commons)

Princeton Jewish community fights over an Israel-themed Shabbat dinner

Josefin Dolsten
Published April 8, 2019
Anti-vaccination activists are using yellow stars on social media and at events. Photo: ADL

Anti-vaccine activists are using a Holocaust-era yellow Star of David to promote their cause

Josefin Dolsten
Published April 5, 2019
Tibor, left, and Livia Horovitz are Holocaust survivors from Hungary. Photo: Josefin Dolsten

A seder for Holocaust survivors brings joy, food and some good ol’ kvetching

Josefin Dolsten
Published April 4, 2019
Yariv Levin (middle), the Israeli justice minister was an architect of the judicial reform and celebrated Mondays vote.

Brazil’s president says Nazis were leftists following his visit to Yad Vashem

Josefin Dolsten
Published April 3, 2019
Camp Havaya has instituted policies to ensure coupling up is not a focus. (Courtesy of Camp Havaya)

How Jewish summer camps are talking about consent in the age of #MeToo

Josefin Dolsten
Published March 20, 2019

5 Jewish things to know about John Hickenlooper

Josefin Dolsten
Published March 5, 2019

The Robert Kraft prostitute scandal is another PR headache for the ‘Jewish Nobel’ prize

Josefin Dolsten
Published February 22, 2019

Abbas won’t accept Palestinian tax revenues collected by Israel

Josefin Dolsten
Published February 20, 2019

Dana Nessel, the first openly gay politician elected to Michigan state office, draws inspiration from Judaism

Josefin Dolsten
Published February 20, 2019
Jews lined up in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. (Courtesy of American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Archives)

Poland wants correction after NBC’s Andrea Mitchell says Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was against ‘Polish and Nazi regime’

Josefin Dolsten
Published February 14, 2019

How Chelsea Clinton became a defender of the Jews on Twitter

Josefin Dolsten
Published February 13, 2019
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