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This isn’t Mark Ruffalo’s first antisemitism controversy
2+ week, 5+ day ago (635+ words) Mark Ruffalo is in the spotlight after facing accusations of antisemitism for his criticism of the Ellison family — but this isn’t the first time the actor has been caught in controversy on this topic. Ruffalo, a four-time Academy Awards nominee…...
An influential book of a Nazi leader’s confessions is now available in English
3+ week, 4+ day ago (1096+ words) By Shira Li Bartov (JTA) — Jürgen Stroop, the Nazi commander who led the killing of more than 50,000 Jews, was sitting in a cell in Warsaw awaiting his own execution. Before he met the gallows, Stroop described in unrepentant detail his…...
How 3 Jewish refugees from the Nazis built Iceland’s classical music scene from scratch
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (1292+ words) Victor Urbancic conducts a makeshift orchestra in Reykjavik, Iceland, sometime after World War II. (Courtesy Árni Heimir Ingólfsson) (JTA) — REYKJAVIK, Iceland —This city in the autumn of 1935 was a small fishing port of corrugated-iron houses battered by high winds, cod trawlers…...
Quietly sold by Jewish library, letter by famed 18th-century rabbi surfaces at auction, fetching $400,000
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (723+ words) By Asaf Elia-Shalev February 19, 2026 (JTA) — A decade ago, amid a financial crisis, the Jewish Theological Seminary turned to its assets, selling real estate as well as rare books from its world-renowned library. The book sales were private, and the institution…...
A Yiddish theater troupe condemned U.S. racism — then the Nazis came
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (836+ words) The Scottsboro Boys. From left to right: Clarence Norris, Olen Montgomery, Andy Wright, Willie Roberson, Ozie Powell, Eugene Williams, Charlie Weems, Roy Wright, and Haywood Patterson. Courtesy of Getty Images By Olivia Haynie July 30, 2026 Although it didn’t have the financial…...
The most Jewish room in Fremont, Ohio, is in a county history museum
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1241+ words) Children put on a Purim show, circa 1953, at Temple Beth Israel in Fremont, Ohio. Courtesy of Temple Beth Israel By Austin Albanese July 29, 2026 Beneath a mahogany staircase inside the Sandusky County Historical Society hangs a memorial plaque in a place…...
Their art was whimsical, elegant, 'scandalous,' and colorful. It was also revolutionary.
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (788+ words) ‘Modernity and Opulence: Women of the Wiener Werkstätte’ is currently on display at the Jewish Museum. Courtesy of The Jewish Museum By Cathryn J. Prince Even under glass, designer Fritzi Löw’s intricately beaded “Adam and Eve” bag manages to sparkle....
75 artifacts tell the fitful, inspiring, unfinished story of Jews in America
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (731+ words) An American Jewish Congress member holding sign at a Montgomery March. Courtesy of the American Jewish Historical Society, New York. From the American Jewish Congress Records By PJ Grisar July 21, 2026 In May 1818, Mordecai Manuel Noah, a prominent Jew of his…...
In the pickles and babka of Williamsburg and the Lower East Side, a glimpse of a lost New York
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (653+ words) @kosher.hopping has been leading “Pickles and Babka” walks across Jewish New York Courtesy of Sammy It was an early Sunday morning when my grandmother and I arrived at Sander’s Bakery in South Williamsburg for a “Pickles and Babka” food…...
The play is about Birthright, but it's about a lot more than Israel
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (534+ words) By Mira Fox June 29, 2026 It’s a clever piece of production magic that effectively drives home the schism over Israel in the Jewish world, and our inability to hear each other. Birthright, commissioned by Miami New Drama from Tony Award-winning playwright…...