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Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood rejects calls to cancel tour with Israeli musician Dudu Tassa
The musician Jonny Greenwood is pushing back on critics who say he should abandon a plan to tour with an Israeli collaborator because of the Israel-Hamas war. Greenwood and Dudu Tassa, an Israeli rock star from a prominent Mizrahi musical family, are scheduled to perform together on the European festival circuit this summer, a year...
Former Rep. Mondaire Jones rips Jamaal Bowman over Israel and endorses primary competitor George Latimer
Former New York Congressman Mondaire Jones has endorsed George Latimer in his primary campaign against Rep. Jamaal Bowman for New York’s 16th Congressional District, citing Bowman’s harsh criticisms of Israel. Jones’ endorsement is significant because both he and Bowman are progressive Democrats in neighboring districts. In 2020, both won closely contested primaries, becoming the first...
Hulu’s ‘Clipped’ dramatizes the real story of Jewish LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s sordid downfall
Donald Sterling hasn’t owned the L.A. Clippers for a decade, but on Tuesday, his story is coming back to the spotlight with the debut of FX’s new Hulu miniseries, “Clipped.” Sterling, born Donald Tokowitz to Ashkenazi Jewish immigrant parents, owned the Clippers from 1981 until 2014, when he received a lifetime ban and a $2.5...
Mexico just elected a Jewish president. What other countries can claim Jewish heads of state?
Claudia Sheinbaum, elected this week as Mexico’s first woman and first Jewish president, is joining a short list of four other Jewish — or Jew-ish — people outside of Israel currently serving as presidents or prime ministers. History provides a much longer list. Benjamin Disraeli, who was born Jewish but became Anglican as an adolescent,...
Nothing about American arms policy toward Israel makes sense
When push comes to shove, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made it clear he will do what he wants, regardless of the consequences. By withholding a recent shipment of ammunition to Israel, Biden let Netanyahu know that he really, really did not want Israel to invade the crowded city of Rafah. And Netanyahu showed...
What Netanyahu says when he speaks French — and why it borders on obscenity
For the first time since the Hamas massacre last October, Benjamin Netanyahu gave an interview last week on French television. On TF1, the country’s most watched network, the Israeli prime minister gave yet another master class in distorting past events and denying present realities in the defense of his political future. The revelation of the...
Should Jews attend a rally against antisemitism hosted by people who try to convert them?
A rally to combat antisemitism scheduled for later this month in Manhattan is receiving mixed reaction from Jewish leaders because it is sponsored by a group founded to convince Jews that Jesus is the Messiah. Amid rising antisemitism, some welcome the rally. Others, suspicious of groups that want Jews to adopt Christian beliefs, reject it....
I’m a Mexican Jew. I wish Claudia Sheinbaum would embrace the complexity of our shared heritage
Every year on Rosh Hashanah, my family serves gefilte fish a la Veracruzana, a Mexican twist on the traditional Jewish dish in which delicate fish patties are served warm in a spicy tomato sauce. Named after the port of Veracruz, the main entry for 20th-century immigrants to Mexico, the fusion honors my great-grandparents who fled...
Protesters want a ceasefire. Why won’t they speak out in support of Biden’s plan for one?
After President Joe Biden announced his three-part plan for a ceasefire and hostage release on Friday, I visited the campus of UCLA, where I was overjoyed to see thousands of students demonstrating for Hamas and Israel to accept the deal. Their sea of signs read, “Hamas: Take the Deal!” and “Bibi: Say Yes!” I’m kidding....
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