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JTA – On 10 September 2001, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reported that New York’s Central Synagogue was reopening. The Reform synagogue had been closed for three years after a devastating...
JTA – Fashion designer John Galliano withdrew from a planned exhibition of his work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in response to a rapidly escalating controversy...
JTA – Before the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that it would honour fashion designer John Galliano with a major Costume Institute exhibition next spring, the...
JTA – I knew that the folk singer Arlo Guthrie’s mom was Jewish in the same way that I knew that jazz great Louis Armstrong spoke...
JTA – Bret Stephens, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist known as one of the paper’s most consistent defenders of Israel, used his Tuesday column to take...
JTA – In 2002, Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard, described a series of mostly anti-Israel actions on and beyond campus as “antisemitic in their effect...
JTA – “To be a liberal Zionist, it’s quite a lonely place,” said Amir Tibon, the Israeli journalist whose memoir The Gates of Gaza is one of the...
JTA – The City Without Jews is the title shared by a 1922 satirical novel by Hugo Bettauer and a coming history of Nazi Vienna by Douglas...
JTA – In the first episode of the second season of The Bear, Hulu’s acclaimed series, the character Richie describes damage at the titular restaurant as “the result of some...
JTA – The New York Times has hired The Atlantic staff writer Yair Rosenberg to launch a national beat covering Jewish American life, bringing a widely known journalist on antisemitism...
JTA – I asked AI Sigmund Freud to interpret my dream this morning. All I got was some dancing dots, as if a) the great man...
JTA – Fireworks, parades, maybe a mixed martial arts smackdown on the White House lawn? Those are a few of the ways Americans will be marking the country’s...
JTA – Irish novelist Sally Rooney, who drew headlines in 2021 for refusing a Hebrew translation of one of her books, is now publishing her latest...
JTA – Over the last two months, there have been more than a dozen attacks on Jewish institutions across Europe. Two of the highest-profile attacks were...
JTA – In the crowded canon of books about how to change the world, few loom as large as Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. Published in 1971,...
JTA – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory author Roald Dahl is a terrible messenger for a serious conversation about Jews and Israel. Which is part of what makes Giant,...
JTA – A column in The Guardian that seemed to rationalise the targeting of a popular Israeli-founded bakery has ignited controversy in the British Jewish community. The 14 March piece in...
JTA – On a Saturday in January I went to Shabbat services in the morning and the New York City Ballet in the evening. By which I mean, maybe...
JTA – As the United States and Israel engage in a joint assault on Iran, accusations that Israel or Jewish influence drove America to war are resurfacing, reviving...
JTA – In Jewish time, history often has a way of rhyming with the calendar. So when Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei was killed in an...
JTA – Eli Sharabi’s memoir Hostage, recounting his experience in Hamas captivity after the 7 October 2023 attack, has been named Book of the Year by the National Jewish Book...
JTA – I’ve never read a Holocaust chronicle quite like Lore Segal’s autobiographical 1964 novel, Other People’s Houses. Mordant, unsentimental, and sometimes painfully honest, it’s the story of an Austrian girl...
JTA – I remember being freaked out, and fascinated, by my parents’ copy of Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales. It featured these especially lurid illustrations; I...
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...
