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In "Yes! ," Israeli director Nadav Lapid skewers his country"s "moral abyss" after Oct. 7
3+ hour, 34+ min ago (625+ words) The movie is just reaching U. S. audiences " but will they want to see it? In November 2023, as much of the Jewish world was still reeling from the Oct. 7 attack, a newly formed Israeli organization called The Civil Front released a hair-raising…...
My family and friends questioned why I wanted to visit Israel. That's why I wanted to go.
1+ hour, 47+ min ago (658+ words) A non-Jewish journalism student explains her thinking " and why a wartime diversion to Poland was so powerful. WARSAW " As a non-Jewish college student, I felt both excitement and trepidation when I got the call that I had been accepted into…...
A new anti-Zionist PAC has endorsed candidates who believe Jews were behind 9/11
7+ hour, 49+ min ago (1156+ words) Michael Rectenwald, the founder of AZAPAC, has referred to Jewish people as "the Synagogue of Satan." A new group opposing AIPAC is backing anti-Israel candidates across party lines. Some of its endorsees have blamed Israel and Jews for 9/11 and the…...
I lost my dad at 12 " and found my Jewish identity in the spaces he left behind
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (620+ words) A teen grapples with grief, emotional abuse and isolation " and discovers Judaism as a source of connection. This article was produced as part of'JTA's Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on…...
National support group for interfaith Jewish families guts staff amid funding crisis
2+ day, 14+ min ago (880+ words) 18 Doors now has four people on staff, down from 15 last year. A national nonprofit that supports interfaith Jewish families has slashed its workforce after facing an unanticipated budget shortfall. 18 Doors announced on March 31 that it had "significantly" reduced its staff…...
Mordecai Kaplan wanted Jews to choose Judaism. Why they didn't was the bane of his life.
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (564+ words) A new biography explores the lasting influence and unfinished business of the founder of Reconstructionism. Reconstructionist Judaism, wrote the Jewish sociologist Charles Liebman almost 60 years ago, "comes closer than any other movement or school of thought to articulating the meaning…...
Israeli, Serbian leaders denounce antisemitic statements at Belgrade protest
3+ day, 34+ min ago (370+ words) Israeli and Serbian officials are denouncing antisemitic comments made by demonstrators during a clash between Serbian students and police at a protest last week. "Death to Vu'i" and all the Jews around him," one protester said in a televised interview,…...
Mamdani wishes Rikers Island inmates 'Chag Pesach Sameach' in Passover seder letter
5+ day, 8+ hour ago (400+ words) When 150 inmates of Rikers Island, New York City's largest jail complex, attended Passover seders on Wednesday night, copies of a printed letter awaited them at their seats. The letter, written by Mayor Zohran Mamdani, wished its readers a "Chag Pesach…...
A lost novel from 1943 predicted the Holocaust. Now, it has been recovered.
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (853+ words) Friedrich Torberg depicted a fictional concentration camp while he was losing at least 15 members of his family. As World War II raged in Europe, Friedrich Torberg, an Austrian Jew who fled for the United States in 1940, imagined what was befalling…...
Ahead of Passover, Israelis seeking to leave cut a reverse-Exodus path through Egypt
1+ week, 1+ day ago (917+ words) The symbolism is almost too sharp to ignore," one Israeli wrote on social media. Zalmy Mochkin, a 36-year-old chef and artist in Israel, had lined up what seemed like a perfect Passover gig for this year: He would cook for…...