Eclipsed by 9/11: The Grey Zone
JTASep 17, 2021
By Rich Brownstein NEW YORK — On Sept. 11, 2001, an unusual, morally compicated — perhaps unique — Holocaust film premiered at a festival, then quickly...
How and why the Nazis looted art
JTASep 15, 2021
By Chloe Sarbib, JTA via Alma NEW YORK — Great works of art often become so present in our everyday lives — the “Mona Lisa” on a mug, “The Starry […]
Burlington, Vermont won’t embrace BDS
JTASep 15, 2021
BURLINGTON, Vt. — The sponsor of a bill that would have made Burlington, Vt. the first city in America to divest from Israel is withdrawing his legislation, citing...
Taking the bark out of the prisoner
JTASep 02, 2021
ROSH HASHANAH EDITION 5782 SECTION A PAGE 23 By Alix Wall VACAVILLE, Calif. — Soon after Jon Grobman was released from prison, where he had once thought he would die,...
The woman behind ‘All-Of-a-Kind-Family’
JTASep 02, 2021
ROSH HASHANAH EDITION 5782 SECTION D PAGE 11 By Sandee Brawarsky, The Jewish Week via JTA In Sydney Taylor’s 1951 book All-of-a-Kind Family, a young girl says to her...
Jewish paralympics athletes to watch
JTAAug 26, 2021
TOKYO — Weeks after the Olympics came to a close, Tokyo is filled again with athletes, for the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. Among them are dozens of Jewish athletes looking...
He escaped the Nazis, founded the Paralympics
JTAAug 26, 2021
By Evelyn Frick TOKYO — The 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games opened on Tuesday, Aug. 24 and will run through next week. Much like the Olympic Games in the Japanese capital,...
Ahead of Biden meeting, Bennett lays out plans
JTAAug 26, 2021
WASHINGTON — Ahead of his first meeting as prime minister with President Joe Biden, Naftali Bennett of Israel said he would neither annex West Bank territory nor allow...
The new face of Adidas
JTAAug 12, 2021
By Bonnie Azoulay, Kveller JERUSALEM — In 2016, Beatie Deutsch placed sixth in the Jerusalem half marathon. Watching Deutsch, an Israeli born in America, you would...
Who is NY Gov. Kathy Hochul?
JTAAug 12, 2021
By Stewart Ain, New York Jewish Week via JTA NEW YORK — Kathy Hochul, who is set to succeed Andrew Cuomo as governor of New York, is no stranger to […]
