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A Polish ‘Countess’ Saved Thousands Of Concentration Camp Prisoners From Death. No One Knew She Was A Jew.

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NEW YORK (JTA) — In December 1941, a petite, elegant woman left her home in Eastern Galicia, where she was known as the Jewish mathematician Janina Spinner Mehlberg. Three days later, she arrived i...

In the Wake of Anti-israel Vandalism, Hundreds of Jewish New Yorkers Turn Out to Support a Druze Restaurant on the Upper West Side

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(New York Jewish Week) — When Gazala Halabi arrived at her restaurant, Gazalas’s, last Sunday morning, she wasn’t prepared for what would happen later in the day: Hundreds of Jewish and Israeli New Yo...

Robert Kraft’s Super Bowl Ad About Antisemitism to Feature Mlk Speechwriter Clarence Jones

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(JTA) — An icon of Black history takes center stage in an ad placed by the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism on Sunday night’s Super Bowl LVIII, expected to be viewed by 100 million people. Robert ...

NJ Man Faces Life in Prison After Pleading Guilty to 2022 Spree of Violent Antisemitic Attacks

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LAKEWOOD (JTA) - A man has pleaded guilty to federal hate crimes for a spree of violent attacks against Jews in a heavily Orthodox area of New Jersey. In April 2022, Dion Marsh perpetrated a series...

A Tiny Orthodox Synagogue, a Relic of the Old Jewish Lower East Side, Struggles to Survive

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MANHATTAN (JTA) - One of the few surviving congregations on a block of the Lower East Side once known as “Shtiebel Row” is in danger of losing its minyan, the quorum of 10 men above bar mitzvah age ne...

Tiktok’s Pro-israel Investors Face Conundrum as Platform Is Blamed for Fueling Antisemitism

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NEW YORK (JTA) - Last year, as fighting swirled over the Israeli government’s efforts to reshape the country’s judiciary, Israeli and American critics turned their attention to Arthur Dantchik, a Jewi...

The Lublin Yeshiva Library Was Thought to Be Destroyed by the Nazis. Then Its Books Started Turning Up

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NEW YORK (JTA) - For decades after World War II, a famed Jewish house of study in Poland was consigned to oblivion. The Nazis set fire to thousands of books stored at the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva in...

A 19th-Century Painting of the Western Wall Could Fetch $3M at Sotheby’s

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NEW YORK (JTA) - A hyper-realistic 19th-century painting of worshippers at the Western Wall that spent many forgotten years in a synagogue’s storage room is headed to auction at Sotheby’s New York on ...

GOOD RIDDANCE: Lyft Fires Driver who Allegedly Assaulted a DC Chabad Rabbi

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WASHINGTON (JTA) — Lyft has let go of a driver who allegedly assaulted the scion of a prominent Chabad rabbinical family who had used the rideshare app. “Lyft unequivocally condemns this behavior,”...

More Than 1,300 Attend a Free Shabbat Dinner at Ayat, a Palestinian Restaurant in Brooklyn

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BROOKLYN (JTA) - More than 1,300 people made their way to Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, last Friday night to take part in a free Shabbat dinner at Ayat, a local Palestinian restaurant owned by restaurateur A...

The Five Towns Far Rockaway Community Mourns an Extraordinary Torah Scholar

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by Rabbi Yair Hoffman Last week, the Five Towns/Far Rockaway community lost a unique and extraordinary individual, Rabbi Dr. David Kadosh a”h. Rabbi Kadosh was a brilliant Talmid Chochom who studie...

Why Images of Holocaust Survivors Were Projected Onto NYC Landmarks on Saturday Night

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NEW YORK (JTA) - Larger-than-life images of Holocaust survivors and their stories were projected on nearly two dozen New York City landmarks on Saturday night in honor of International Holocaust Remem...

UN Chief Not Invited to Park East Synagogue Holocaust Event for First Time in 10 Years

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NEW YORK (JTA) - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was not invited to a prominent New York City synagogue’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day event this year, a sign of frayed ti...

Robert Kraft’s Foundation to Combat Antisemitism to run 30-second Super Bowl ad

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(JTA) — As reports of antisemitism have surged since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, Jewish groups have sought to spotlight the issue through rallies, news coverage, billboards and social media ...

Could Social Media Really Have Stopped the Holocaust? Scholars Say Elon Musk’s ‘Fantasy Scenario’ Is Far-Fetched.

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KRAKOW, Poland (JTA) — Gavriel Rosenfeld, president of the Center for Jewish History in New York City, specializes in Nazi Germany and counterfactual history — or the study of what might have happened...

NYC Public Schools Announce New Initiatives to Combat Antisemitism

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NEW YORK (JTA) - The chancellor of New York City’s public school system unveiled a plan to combat antisemitism and Islamophobia, after coming under pressure from Jewish advocates, faculty and students...

Norman Jewison, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Director and Lifelong Friend of the Jews, Dies at 97

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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

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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

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(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

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(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...