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Norman Jewison, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Director and Lifelong Friend of the Jews, Dies at 97
NEW YORK (JTA) - In a 2022 documentary on the making of the 1971 film “Fiddler on the Roof,” Norman Jewison relayed a by-now familiar anecdote: When producers of the Broadway musical approached him fo...
Political Veteran Scott Stringer Eyes Another New York City Mayoral Run
NEW YORK (JTA) - Scott Stringer, the former city comptroller who ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 2021, is thinking about taking another shot at Gracie Mansion.
Stringer, a progressive Democrat and...
Michael Solomonov’s famous Zahav hummus now available at Whole Foods — with kosher certification
(JTA) — Israeli-American celebrity chef Michael Solomonov’s renowned hummus has only been available in his Philadelphia and New York City restaurants — until now.
Hummus using the recipe from Zahav...
No, New York libraries aren’t closing because of funding for Israel
(JTA) - For months, a subset of New Yorkers has railed against reductions to the city’s public library budget, which has already forced some of them to close on Sundays.
This week, a few denizens o...
Ritchie Torres: Anti-israel Protesters Celebrating Oct. 7 Are Like White People Who Cheered Lynchings
NEW YORK (JTA) - In a speech marking Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend, Rep. Ritchie Torres likened protesters who have celebrated Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacres to white people in the Jim Crow era who cele...
Pro-palestinian Protesters Target Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Accusing It of ‘Genocide’
NEW YORK (JTA) - Pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrated outside the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on the Upper East Side during a rally on Monday, accusing the hospital of abetting genocide....
Israel’s Ravaged Kibbutzes Have Become Museums of the Macabre. Their Former Residents Want to Go Home
GAZA ENVELOPE, Israel (JTA) — For Ido Felus, returning to his home in Kfar Aza is not a choice but an imperative that has guided every decision he has made — including what to study in college — since...
Israelis Protest Outside Un Chief Antonio Guterres’ Home Weekly. They’ve Gained a Grudging Respect for Him
NEW YORK (JTA) - One Friday morning last month, as United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres took the short walk from his townhouse to his car in freezing weather, he was confronted by a group...
Feds to Investigate Teaneck, NJ, School District Where Students Held Pro-palestinian Walkout
NEW JERSEY (JTA) - The U.S. Department of Education has opened an investigation into a New Jersey school district that has come under fire for what Jewish parents allege is an antisemitic climate sinc...
Nikki Haley Has Emerged as a Favorite for Jewish Republican Donors Looking for a Credible Alternative to Trump
(JTA) - With just days to go until Republican voters begin casting their presidential primary ballots, Nikki Haley is hoping that she can pull off an unlikely win over Donald Trump.
One thing the f...
Girls Basketball Coach Fired at NY School Where Players Shouted Antisemitic Slurs at Jewish Opponents
YONKERS (JTA) - A public high school in New York has fired its varsity girl’s basketball coach after players on its team uttered antisemitic slurs during a game against a Jewish day school.
A stude...
A Tel Aviv Exhibit Recreates the Nova Massacre Site in Exacting Detail, With Healing as an Aim
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Daniel Ozeri found himself returning to the worst moments of his life on a recent Sunday — not inside his own mind, but inside a Tel Aviv convention center.
Ozeri was in Expo Tel A...
Larger-Than-Life Bushwick Mural Shows Israeli and Palestinian Children Embracing
BROOKLYN (JTA) - Amid Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, Israeli and Palestinian boys act as symbols of a peaceful future in a new, larger-than-life mural painted this week on the side of a loft buil...
Bnei Menashe Community Disputes Israeli Reports of 7 Killed in India Violence
JERUSALEM (JTA) - Members of the Bnei Menashe Jewish community are rejecting an Israeli parliamentary report that a missile strike in Northeast India killed seven community members this week.
...
Shenna Bellows, Who Blocked Trump From Maine’s Primary Ballot, Used to Run the State’s Holocaust Center
MAINE (JTA) - When Shenna Bellows was appointed Maine’s secretary of state in 2020, she described how her previous job at a Holocaust education center made her especially suited to the role.
Bellow...
New Jersey Man Inspired by Hamas Attacks Tried to Join Somali Terror Group, Prosecutors Say
(JTA) - A New Jersey man inspired by the Oct. 7 attack on Israel attempted to join the al-Shabab terror group to harm the United States, a federal court in New York announced on Friday.
Karrem Nasr...
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A Day After Being Heckled for His Israel Views, Ritchie Torres Gets a Hero’s Welcome at Bronx Jewish School
NEW YORK (JTA) - The day before winter break starts is often an exciting one at school, with pizza parties, movies in class and other laid-back activities. But at SAR Academy, a Modern Orthodox K-8 da...
UN Security Council Adopts Resolution Urging Aid to Gazans, Stops Short of Calling for Ceasefire
NEW YORK (JTA) - After days of negotiations, the United States allowed the passage of a United Nations Security Council resolution urging the acceleration of assistance to Gaza Strip Palestinians, but...
Suspect arrested in antisemitic attack outside Washington, DC Shul
WASHINGTON (JTA) – Police in Washington, D.C. have arrested a man in connection with an antisemitic attack outside a synagogue Sunday morning in the district’s Georgetown neighborhood.
A statement ...