Yiddish for the win
JTAJun 13, 2019
It’s Yiddish for the win at the Scripps National Spelling Bee! OK, not quite, but last week, when the first rounds of the finals kicked off, the word “Yiddishkeit”...
Women’s World Cup Jewish fun facts
JTAJun 13, 2019
By Emily Burack PARIS — There aren’t any Jewish players that we know of at this year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup, which runs from June 7 to July 7 in France. The...
NYT: No more political cartoons
JTAJun 13, 2019
NEW YORK — The New York Times announced that it will no longer publish daily political cartoons in its international edition, in the wake of backlash over a cartoon of...
First person: Corbyn’s Labour is an existential threat to British Jewry
JTAJun 06, 2019
By Gideon Falter On a recent speaking tour in North America, I was asked repeatedly about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party and Jeremy Corbyn. Corbyn’s Labour has...
Sobibor’s last survivor dies
JTAJun 06, 2019
JERUSALEM — The last living survivor of the Nazi death camp Sobibor has died. Semion Rosenfeld died on Monday, June 3, at a hospital in central Israel at the age of...
Greece elects its first Jewish mayor
JTAJun 06, 2019
ATHENS — A city in northwestern Greece elected the country’s first Jewish mayor. Moses Elisaf was elected mayor of Ioannina on Sunday, June 2, in the second round...
Polish restitution debate fans more anti-Semitism
JTAMay 30, 2019
By Katarzyna Markusz WARSAW — Jewish leaders are warning about anti-Semitic speech here amid a debate over the fate of property seized from or abandoned by Jews during...
‘Gooooooaaaal!’ — then, off to visit Israel
JTAMay 23, 2019
By Emily Burack MIAMI — Viewers of soccer on Telemundo are likely familiar with the “gooooooooaaaal” call that their announcers helped make famous. Those who’ve...
Herman Wouk and the mainstream
JTAMay 23, 2019
By Rachel Gordon BOSTON — Herman Wouk, the bestselling Orthodox Jewish author whose literary career spanned nearly seven decades and who helped usher Judaism into the...
Did Maimonides invent pizza?
JTAMay 16, 2019
By Henry Abramson FERRARA, Italy — In 1983, the Italian-Israeli professor Sandra Debenedetti Stow stunned the scholarly world with an explosive article that proposed...
