3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (597+ words) (JTA) — BUENOS AIRES – A Dutch journalist hunting for art treasures belonging to an Amsterdam Jewish art dealer spent years trying to get answers from Patricia Kadgien, the daughter of the Nazi financier who had made off with some of them,…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (392+ words) By Shira Li Bartov (JTA) — The Dutch public broadcaster Avrotros has pulled out of the next Eurovision Song Contest, saying that Israel’s participation undermined the event’s neutrality. Avrotros announced on Monday that it was withdrawing from the world’s largest music…...

2+ week, 6+ 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…...

3+ week, 5+ 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…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (566+ words) By PJ Grisar August 5, 2026 While the mythic, Bronze Age events recounted in the blockbuster film likely never transpired, Homer’s epic poem is by any measure younger than the Jewish people. And Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey, now a proxy for a pitched…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1112+ words) By Andrew Silow-Carroll August 4, 2026 (JTA) — Before the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that it would honor fashion designer John Galliano with a major Costume Institute exhibition next spring, the museum convened at least two unusual meetings: a face-to-face with Galliano…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (363+ words) (JTA) — Boy George has withdrawn from his run as King Herod in London’s West End revival of “Jesus Christ Superstar,” days before he was due to take the stage and 24 hours after releasing “We Will Dance Again,” dedicated to the…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (481+ words) (JTA) — The British pop icon Boy George has gone to bat for Israel and its supporters multiple times in recent months, rejecting boycott calls and expressing solidarity after antisemitic violence. Now, he has released a single in the same key....

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (578+ words) By Olivia Haynie July 20, 2026 While some scholars note the parallels between The Odyssey and the Book of Genesis, Christopher Nolan’s version of the epic seems to take its cue from Exodus. The nearly three-hour long movie, staggering in its length…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago   (1209+ words) I was reminded of that one evening not long ago in a drab Chinese restaurant uptown on Broadway, clutching a pair of wooden chopsticks poised to shovel another mound of chicken and walnuts into my mouth. Music was playing softly…...