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Juan Bradman, Cuban-Jewish exile whose life inspired a novel, dies at 90

JTA — Juan Bradman was still in his twenties when he became a circuit judge in rural Cuba, traveling among the provinces. But in 1962, after the...

27.09.2023 20

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Lithuania president honors those who saved Jewish artifacts during and post-Holocaust

New York Jewish Week via JTA — The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research welcomed Lithuania’s president to its Manhattan headquarters Monday to honor...

21.09.2023 30

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Mary Ann Stein, philanthropist who supported US and Israel social justice, dies at 80

JTA — Mary Ann Stein of Bethesda, Maryland, who as the founding president of The Moriah Fund supported human and civil rights in the US and Israel...

13.09.2023 40

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A new memoir tries to mend the pieces of the author’s broken Cuban-Jewish family

JTA — In her recent book, “The Object of Jewish Literature,” Case Western Reserve University professor Barbara A. Mann writes about how...

10.09.2023 30

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Jewish sailor Bill Pinkney, first Black person to circle the globe solo, dies at 87

JTA — Captain Willian “Bill” Pinkney, a Jewish sailor who became the first African American to sail around the world solo, died Thursday. He was...

06.09.2023 20

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Claire Golomb, Holocaust survivor and child psychology scholar, dies at 95

JTA — Claire Golomb was 10 years old and living in Frankfurt, Germany when, early one morning, there was a loud knock at the door. Nazis had come to...

30.08.2023 20

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US judge rules New York congregation can evict tenants of historic Touro Synagogue

JTA — A Rhode Island judge has ruled in favor of a historic New York City synagogue that is seeking to remove the leadership of the congregation...

29.08.2023 30

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FM Mangoush seen as scapegoat for an Israel meet all Libya’s rival leaders knew about

TRIPOLI, Libya — Monday’s sacking of Libya’s foreign minister, after her Israeli counterpart revealed that they held an unprecedented sit-down...

29.08.2023 50

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An American rabbi answers her congregants’ question: Why do they hate us?

JTA — When I asked Rabbi Diana Fersko why she decided to add to the growing list of recent books written about antisemitism, she referred to...

29.08.2023 40

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Andrea Pancur, singer who bridged German and Yiddish song traditions, dies at 54

JTA — Andrea Pancur, a Munich-based singer, teacher and activist who helped bridge the worlds of German and Yiddish song culture — and who served...

23.08.2023 30

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Nechama Tec, Holocaust survivor whose book inspired the film ‘Defiance,’ dies at 92

(JTA) — Nechama Tec, a Holocaust survivor and historian whose book about a group of Jews in Belarus who successfully defied the Nazis was made into...

10.08.2023 20

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Harvey Meyerhoff, chair of US Holocaust Memorial Museum at its founding, dies at 96

JTA — In 1986, eight years after Jimmy Carter established the President’s Commission on the Holocaust with Elie Weisel as its chairman, little...

08.08.2023 20

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Louise Levy, ‘supercentenarian’ subject of Jewish longevity study, dies at 112

JTA — Louise Levy, who was the oldest living resident of New York State and a participant in a genetic study of long-living Ashkenazi Jews, died...

29.07.2023 30

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Richard Barancik, last of ‘Monuments Men’ who recovered Nazi loot, dies at 98

JTA — Richard Barancik, the last surviving member of the Allied military corps that hunted down and recovered countless artworks stolen by the...

26.07.2023 30

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Scholar Aharon Ariel, War of Independence vet and ‘walking encyclopedia,’ dies at 97

JTA — In May 1948, a decommissioned US Navy ship, the Marine Carp, was carrying passengers from New York to Haifa when, stopping in Beirut, it was...

19.07.2023 40

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Marlena Spieler, traveling Jewish cookbook author, dies aged 74

JTA — In an essay she wrote in June, Marlena Spieler reminisced about her grandfather’s neighborhood in San Francisco in one long, exuberant...

11.07.2023 20

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Alan Arkin, Jewish actor with uncommon versatility, dies at 89

Alan Arkin knew he was going to be an actor from the age of five. “Every film I saw, every play, every piece of music fed an unquenchable need to...

30.06.2023 10

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Jewish co-author of most widely cited paper in the history of psychology dies at 86

JTA — Reuben Baron was nothing if not persistent. As a social psychologist at the University of Connecticut, he and colleague David Kenny submitted...

28.06.2023 20

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Betty Woolf, last surviving of world’s oldest mixed triplets, dies at age 96

JTA — “900 Rockaway Babies to Parade Tomorrow” read a small item in The New York Times on September 2, 1927. They would include, according to...

22.06.2023 30

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Robert Gottlieb, legendary editor who championed Heller, Caro and Potok, dies at 92

JTA — Robert Gottlieb, the legendary literary editor who shepherded into print and best-sellerdom such 20th-century classics as Joseph Heller’s...

15.06.2023 10

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Israeli sociologist Amitai Etzioni, coiner of phrase ‘communitarianism,’ dies aged 94

JTA — “Although I was born in Germany, my formative years were spent in the early, idealistic days of the cooperative Jewish settlements, in...

13.06.2023 40

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The hora, the hora! How American-Jewish wedding music changed its tune over the years

JTA — When my wife and I were planning our wedding, we thought it might be cool to hire a klezmer band. This was during the first wave of the...

12.06.2023 20

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Overdue or overdone? Two US scholars hope to secure the legacy of ‘Jewish Renewal’

JTA — When Rabbi Arthur Green gave the commencement address last week at the Jewish Theological Seminary, the Conservative flagship where he was...

02.06.2023 30

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A scholar sees a common root for antisemitism and racism: ‘Christian supremacy’

JTA — Magda Teter’s new book, “Christian Supremacy,” begins in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 11, 2017. Hundreds of white nationalist...

21.05.2023 20

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Jewish American real estate magnate Sam Zell dies at 81

JTA — Sam Zell, a Chicago real estate magnate and son of Holocaust survivors who led a tumultuous leveraged buyout that bankrupted the Tribune media...

19.05.2023 30

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A Jewish journalist takes sides in America’s ‘slow civil war’

JTA — Jeff Sharlet admits up front that his book about what he and others call the “Trumpocene” epoch is not objective. “Transparent...

12.05.2023 50

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Jerry Springer, son of Jewish refugees whose talk show was known for conflict, dies at 79

JTA — Jerry Springer, the son of Jewish refugees who set aside a promising political career to become the ringleader of a circus-like syndicated...

28.04.2023 20

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The fuzzy, neurotic, unmistakably Jewish legacy of cartoonist Ed Koren

(JTA) — The other day I was in a kosher Chinese restaurant and I noticed an older white guy happily eating alone. He had white shaggy beard and...

24.04.2023 30

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Mimi Sheraton, groundbreaking food critic and scholar of the bialy, dies at 97

JTA — Growing up in a Jewish home in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, Mimi Sheraton seemed destined for a life in food. Her father, Joseph, sold wholesale...

10.04.2023 30

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New project translates ritual Omer counting to 49 Jewish languages

JTA — There are 49 days between the second night of Passover and the holiday of Shavuot, but who’s counting? Jews the world over, in fact, and in...

07.04.2023 20

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Abraham Zarem, one of the last surviving Manhattan Project scientists, dies at 106

JTA — Abraham Zarem was 28 when he joined the Manhattan Project, the vast US government effort to develop the atom bomb during World War II....

17.03.2023 50

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Raphael Mechoulam, Israel’s ‘father of cannabis research,’ dies at 92

(JTA) — In the early 1960s, a Bulgarian-born scientist named Raphael Mechoulam was caught carrying five kilograms of, as he called it, “superb,...

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A history of Mel Brooks as a ‘disobedient Jew’

JTA — Jeremy Dauber subtitles his new biography of Mel Brooks “Disobedient Jew.” It’s a phrase that captures two indivisible aspects of the...

08.03.2023 20

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Writer Chaim Grade’s archive digitized: A Yiddish treasure with a dramatic backstory

JTA — Years ago, when I worked at the Forward, I had a cameo in a real-life Yiddish drama. A cub reporter named Max Gross sat just outside my...

26.02.2023 60

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The reluctant dissenters of Diaspora Jewry

JTA — I started reporting on North American Jews and Israel in the last century, and for years covered the debate over whether Jews in the Diaspora...

13.02.2023 10

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Burt Bacharach, sophisticated Jewish hitmaker of the ’60s and ’70s, dies at 94

(JTA) — Songwriter Burt Bacharach, who with his longtime lyricist Hal David turned out a string of hits in the 1960s and ’70s — including...

10.02.2023 40

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Bob Born, Jewish maker of Peeps marshmallow candies, dies at 98

JTA — Ira “Bob” Born, the son of a Russian Jewish immigrant who founded the company that makes Peeps candies, has died. He was 98. Born was the...

01.02.2023 30

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What American Jews fight about when they fight about Israel

JTA — Eric Alterman, born in 1960, says the view of Israel he absorbed growing up in a Jewish family in suburban Scarsdale, New York, was decidedly...

24.01.2023 30

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England’s Arsenal soccer club probing ‘disturbing’ antisemitism involving its fans

LONDON — England’s Arsenal soccer club revealed on Wednesday that an investigation has been launched into a pair of “disturbing” antisemitic...

19.01.2023 100

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Michael W. Twitty’s food memoir ‘Koshersoul’ named Jewish book of the year

JTA — “Koshersoul,” chef Michael W. Twitty’s memoir about his career fusing Jewish and African-American culinary histories, was named the...

19.01.2023 50

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UN exhibit remembers when the world turned its back on stateless Jewish refugees

New York Jewish Week — In 2017, Deborah Veach went back to Germany, looking for the site of the displaced persons camp where she and her parents had...

10.01.2023 10

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A top US law professor worries Israel could become the next Hungary

JTA — Israel’s new governing coalition has been called the “most right-wing” in the nation’s history. That is heartening to supporters who...

10.01.2023 30

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Picking a new rabbi? A new novel about a church shows how

JTA — About a decade ago, I served on my synagogue’s rabbinic search committee. Normally I am allergic to any activity at which minutes will be...

07.01.2023 20

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Book bans, Ukraine and the end of Roe: A look at some hot topics for US Jews in 2022

JTA — Jewish eras can be defined by events (the fall of the Second Temple, the Inquisition, the founding of Israel) and by ideas (the rabbinic era,...

31.12.2022 30

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