Crazy Eddie’s fraudulent empire
JTASep 01, 2022
Crazy Eddie was a consumer electronics empire built on hype. Entrepreneur Eddie Antar grew his chain of discount stores in the New York of the 1970s with unforgettably...
Passion Play revised
JTAAug 25, 2022
By Toby Axelrod BERLIN — Nestled in the Bavarian alps, the city of Oberammergau has one major claim to fame: every 10 years, it hosts the world-famous Passion Play,...
Politics of nature
JTAAug 25, 2022
Five months after canceling its planned trips to Israel, and then — following outrage from Jewish organizations — apologizing days later and saying the trips would...
Ten Jews who left their mark on baseball
JTAAug 18, 2022
By Caleb Friedman NEW YORK — Jewish (and many non-Jewish) baseball fans know the names and achievements of Sandy Koufax and Hank Greenberg, along with their hallowed...
When a fake epidemic saved Jewish lives
JTAAug 18, 2022
“Syndrome K” tells that little-known, surefire story: How three doctors at a hospital in Rome shielded a group of Jews from the Nazis in 1943 and 1944 by inventing a...
Polio in NYC wastewater
JTAAug 18, 2022
Polio has been detected in New York City wastewater, three weeks after a Jewish man in Rockland County was diagnosed with the first polio case in the US in 10 years.
From social media, to helping someone flee Afghanistan
JTAAug 11, 2022
The social networking app Clubhouse advertises its “unlikely collisions of people” — but Nat Rosenzweig, a 34-year-old Jewish musician, hardly expected it to bring...
Did the Arab-Israel coalition work?
JTAAug 04, 2022
Mansour Abbas, the first leader of any majority-Arab party to join an Israeli government launched his reelection campaign last month with a visit to the al-Aqsa mosque,...
‘Birthright for basketballers’
JTAAug 04, 2022
By Jacob Gurvis AUBURN, Ala. — The Auburn University men’s basketball team traveled to Israel last weekend for a 10-day Birthright-style trip, likely the first of...
Lufthansa to address anti-Semitism
JTAAug 04, 2022
The Lufthansa airline is creating a senior management role dedicated to preventing discrimination and anti-Semitism two months after it barred a large group of Orthodox...
