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JTA – In the safe confines of a gathering of Jewish fundraising and communal professionals, Sarah Hurwitz’s remarks about antisemitism and Holocaust education earned polite applause....
JTA – On a frigid winter’s day in 1906, tens of thousands of Jewish parents in New York’s Lower East Side and Brooklyn kept their children...
JTA – You had to have been born in the 1980s or earlier to have a firsthand memory of the night Yitzhak Rabin was shot 30...
JTA – Sam Sussman’s debut novel, Boy from the North Country, revolves around a mystery: was Bob Dylan, the singer and Nobel laureate, the narrator’s father?...
JTA – After weeks of mounting pressure on Israel to address reports of a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, with longtime allies lining up to condemn the...
JTA – An amateur film critic named Evan gave the new Superman movie five out of five stars. Writing on the Letterboxd platform, they praised the...
JTA -At the climax of his one-man show, Out of Character, the actor, Ari’el Stachel, declares, “I am a Yemenite, Israeli, Ashkenazi, Jewish, American actor with...
JTA – United States President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Rick DeSantis had a giddy name for the temporary ICE (United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement)...
JTA – The late singer-songwriter Meir Ariel had a hit song that Israelis tend to invoke at times of crisis: “Avarnu et Par’o, na’avor gam et...
JTA – Iran sent a barrage of deadly missiles at Israel and Israel promised a forceful response in the hours after United States President Donald Trump...
JTA – Miri Bar-Halpern and Jaclyn Wolfman don’t use the term “gaslighting” in their paper on Jewish trauma after 7 October, but they might as well...
JTA – Steven Spielberg had already donated money to the Yiddish Book Center (YBC) when he asked if the centre’s founder, Aaron Lansky, might fly out...
JTA – Author and podcaster Dan Senor told an enthusiastic crowd last Tuesday night, 13 May, at New York’s 92nd Street Y that despite a rising...
JTA – Has David Denby written about an American Jewish Golden Age precisely at the moment it’s ending? In his new book Eminent Jews, Denby celebrates...
JTA – Pope Francis – who died aged 88 on Monday, one day after marking Easter with a public appearance in the Vatican – significantly advanced...
JTA – In a fraught moment in the film A Real Pain, Kieran Culkin, playing the more volatile of a pair of Jewish cousins who go...
JTA – The pressure that built on Harvard’s president, Claudine Gay, to resign began after what many thought was a tepid campus response to the Hamas...
(JTA) In launching his war on Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared his goal was the “denazification” of the country – referring specifically to his allegations...
(JTA) Art Spiegelman once complained that Maus, his classic memoir about his father’s experiences in the Holocaust, was assumed to be intended for young adults because...