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Birthright seeks next Jewish comedy star
JNSDec 08, 2022
Birthright participants are more likely to build Jewish families. But could Birthright produce the next Jewish comedy star?
Qatar tries to accommodate Jewish World Cup guests
JNSDec 01, 2022
While Qatar can hardly be considered a friend of Israel, harboring as it does Hamas terrorists, when it comes to Jews visiting the country for the FIFA World Cup, Qatar...
Aboard the Titanic, Ida Strauss chose to perish with her husband
JNSDec 01, 2022
“Where you go, I go,” Ida Straus told her husband, Isidor, aboard the RMS Titanic in April, 1912. With lifeboats available for women and children first, men had to...
‘Sisters In Law’: Tale of two justices
IJN StaffNov 24, 2022
It’s been six years since the Newman Center’s Elizabeth Eriksen Byron Theatre hosted a local theater run.
Why Jews thrived in Hollywood — and what they sacrificed for it
Andrew Lapin, JTANov 24, 2022
NEW YORK — On “Saturday Night Live” earlier this month, Dave Chappelle really wanted his audience to know there are a lot of Jews in Hollywood. “I’ve been to...
Magic world champ
JTANov 17, 2022
There’s a good chance that right now, Nathan Steuer is playing, or thinking about playing, Magic: The Gathering. The trading card game, which Steuer used to play with...
Shifting approach to looted art
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTANov 10, 2022
A Dutch committee charged with assessing and acting on claims about artwork stolen from Jews before and during the Holocaust has determined that a painting by Wassily...
Bar Mitzvah video was viral sensation in Brazil
JTANov 10, 2022
In Brazil, everybody knows the name Nissim Ourfali — a Bar Mitzvah boy who became one of the country’s first viral memes 10 years ago.
NHL drops the puck on ’22-’23 season
JTAOct 20, 2022
October is a busy month for US sports fans. The MLB playoffs get underway, the NBA season begins, the NFL season kicks into high gear and both the women’s and men’s...
Back spasms derail Israeli tennis star’s swan song
JTAOct 06, 2022
The Tel Aviv Open, a tournament in the high tiers of the pro tennis circuit, returned for the first time since 1996, and it brought emotional moments for multiple Jewish...
