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Linden mayor apologizes for remarks about Jews; says former school official is extorting him
News 12 New Jersey· 2 hours agoThe mayor of Linden is accusing a former school district assistant superintendent of extortion. Mayor Derek Armstead says Paul Oliveira filed a lawsuit to get nearly $1 million from the city ...
Ken Burns' speech was great, but why so negative about Yiddish?
The Forward· 9 hours agoAt Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts last weekend, undergraduates welcomed the acclaimed...
Antisemitic driver tries to run over Jewish people outside Brooklyn yeshiva; none injured
New York Daily News· 1 day agoA crazed driver passing a Hasidic Jewish school in Brooklyn verbally assaulted a group of Jewish...
Ramapo first responders contend with bonfire confrontation and anti-Israel protesters
Lohud | The Journal News via Yahoo News· 2 days agoAbout 40 people celebrated the holiday with the fire, police said. Lag Ba'omer, celebrated...
In his debut novel 'Goyhood,' journalist Reuven Fenton probes the divided selves of an observant Jew...
JTA· 8 hours ago“There’s a split inside me between the secular and the religious," said Fenton, who is a reporter at...
Horror moment Jewish schoolboy 'chased and pelted with stones in racist attack'
Daily Express· 7 days agoShomrim said in its X post that officers in Hackney are "keen" to speak to the "unpleasant...
5 Jewish Movies That Deserve More Attention
CinemaBlend via Yahoo News· 1 day agoBased on the Jonathan Safran Foer novel, Elijah Wood, who you may know for playing Frodo in the cast of Lord of the Rings, plays an American Jew with a...
Jesse Eisenberg Says He Applied for Polish Citizenship: ‘Waiting for the Final Signature’
Us Weekly via Yahoo News· 4 days agoJesse Eisenberg says he is in the process of becoming a citizen of Poland. “I applied for Polish...
At Vilna Shul synagogue, the souls of the dead are stirring - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe· 1 day agoThe dybbuk is the spirit of the young Hasidic scholar she loved but her father forbade her to marry...
With Israel under fire, New York play, exhibit spotlight traumas of Oct. 7 attack
Gannett via AOL· 7 days agoThough she had watched graphic videos about the carnage on Oct. 7, "this was much more emotional for...