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Not just Bowman and Congress: Israel and Gaza are also an issue in NYC local races
(New York Jewish Week) — The primary election between Rep. Jamaal Bowman and George Latimer has become one of the nation’s most closely watched votes due to its focus on Israel. But the international issue has also become a factor in down-ballot Democratic primaries across the five boroughs of New York City, as progressive candidates...
Netanyahu recommits to Biden’s proposed hostage deal after families release grim video
(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recommitted to pursuing the release of all hostages under the terms of a deal that includes a ceasefire after families of hostages released gruesome video of three on the day of their abduction. Netanyahu had come under fire from the Biden administration and from hostage families for telling...
Victims of Oct. 7 attack sue UNRWA for allegedly laundering money for Hamas
(JTA) — More than 100 victims of Hamas’s massacres in Israel on Oct. 7 are suing UNRWA, the main relief agency for Palestinian refugees and their descendants, saying it effectively laundered money for the terrorist group, the latest in a spate of lawsuits launched in U.S. courts since the Israel-Hamas war started. The lawsuit filed...
Our relatives are held hostage in Gaza. We are begging American Jews to pressure Netanyahu to make a deal now
The word “hostages” typically elicits a sense of urgency — an understanding that lives are at stake, that human beings have been violently kidnapped by people who could at any moment end their lives. Somehow, when it comes to those taken by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, this sense of urgency doesn’t seem to apply....
What the LA synagogue pro-Palestinian protest was really about
LOS ANGELES — A pro-Palestinian protest outside an Orthodox synagogue here in Los Angeles drew President Biden’s condemnation Monday after videos of fighting with counterprotesters spread on social media. The protest was organized by Palestinian Youth Movement, a national activist group, in response to an Israeli real estate seminar held Sunday at the Adas Torah...
Stanford task force documents ‘widespread and pernicious’ antisemitism on campus since Oct. 7
(JTA) — Antisemitism is prevalent at Stanford University and action on several fronts is needed to combat it, a committee charged with analyzing its presence on campus since Oct. 7 has concluded. “Our Subcommittee has reached a simple but highly disturbing conclusion: there can be no doubt that antisemitism exists today on the Stanford campus...
Analysis: Latimer expects to beat Bowman in this week’s primary, but not because of Israel
If George Latimer, the popular Westchester County executive, beats Rep. Jamaal Bowman in New York’s Democratic primary Tuesday, pro-Israel organizations will undoubtedly take credit. Considering Bowman’s staunch criticism of Israel and his diatribes against the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and its support of Latimer, the analysis makes sense. But Latimer doesn’t much like it....
Fake ‘Forward’ article posted online and circulated on X
The Forward did not publish a story on international reaction to Israel at a French defense conference. A post about the conference is currently circulating on social media, attributed to the Forward, with the headline: U.S. Democratic Party Plays along with French Businessmen. The Forward did not write or publish this story. The original article...
The greatest (and also the worst) Marx Brothers movies ranked from 13-to-1
Among the many reasons I’m thankful to have been a kid in the 1970s is that my childhood coincided with a massive Marx Brothers revival. Between 1971 and 1978, I spent countless weekend afternoons and evenings in various revival houses and college auditoriums, hungrily absorbing every second as Groucho, Chico, Harpo and sometimes Zeppo inflicted...
Josh Stein — who would be North Carolina’s first Jewish governor — threads the needle on Gaza
This story was first published in The Assembly. Days after October 7, when America still seemed united in its revulsion at Hamas’ massacre and kidnapping of Israelis, North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein spoke at a mournful event in Raleigh and wrote a letter of solidarity to the Asheville Jewish community, which was also gathering...
Synagogues in Dagestan, Russia, targeted alongside churches in terror attack
(JTA) — Two synagogues in the Dagestan region of Russia were attacked on Sunday amid a coordinated and deadly attack on houses of worship in two cities. Gunmen attacked a synagogue in Makhachkala, while a 110-year-old synagogue in Derbent burned down during the attack. The region’s small Jewish community dates back to the sixth century;...
‘The tree is still growing’: At the site of the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history, Tree of Life breaks ground on its future
Audrey Glickman is revisiting history. The diminutive 67-year-old is standing on the site of the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history. On this very spot — on Oct. 27, 2018 — a shooter burst into Shabbat morning services at the Tree of Life synagogue. Glickman is a survivor of the attack. She was leading services...
Duck Everlasting — The secret Jewish history of Donald Duck
It was 90 years ago that the querulous, sputtering Donald Duck first appeared in a movie short. The Russian Jewish director Sergei Eisenstein adored Donald and his Disney confrères, despite their lack of social significance; Eisenstein deemed Donald “beyond good and evil.” Yet other Jewish talents specifically used Donald Duck as a vehicle for teaching...
Criticism of Israel and AIPAC features in rally for Jamaal Bowman with AOC and Bernie Sanders
(New York Jewish Week) — The Israel-Hamas war took center stage at a rally in the Bronx for embattled Rep. Jamaal Bowman, as speakers called for a ceasefire in Gaza and lashed AIPAC’s spending for Bowman’s centrist opponent, George Latimer. The rally — which featured fellow progressives Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders...
As ceasefire talks continue and protests rage, here are the 5 biggest questions facing Israel
There’s never a dull moment in Israel. Straddling the faultline of humanity’s many fantasies and foibles, the country is always in some sort of agitation. But rarely before have so many pressures converged in one moment. Israel faces ever-increasing hostility across the globe over the immense Palestinian civilian death toll in its war with Hamas;...
Made to feel unwelcome at Pride, LGBTQ Jews will not cede joy
(JTA) — It’s been 30 years since I feared that my gay identity might threaten my sense of belonging in the Jewish community. I was in college. I walked into Shabbat dinner holding my girlfriend’s hand. Tightly. We were the only openly queer people in the room, and I felt all eyes on us. I...
The American Jewish future is interfaith. It’s about time our rabbis are, too.
In my nearly two decades spent studying interfaith Jewish relationships, I have heard the same problem mentioned over and over again. The majority of new Jewish marriages are interfaith; these couples are raising interfaith families. But despite that, few rabbis have personal experience in interfaith nuclear families, because — until now — no one in...
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