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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...
New York Jewish Week via JTA — The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research welcomed Lithuania’s president to its Manhattan headquarters Monday to honor...
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...
JTA — In her recent book, “The Object of Jewish Literature,” Case Western Reserve University professor Barbara A. Mann writes about how...
JTA — Captain Willian “Bill” Pinkney, a Jewish sailor who became the first African American to sail around the world solo, died Thursday. He was...
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...
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...
TRIPOLI, Libya — Monday’s sacking of Libya’s foreign minister, after her Israeli counterpart revealed that they held an unprecedented sit-down...
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...
JTA — Andrea Pancur, a Munich-based singer, teacher and activist who helped bridge the worlds of German and Yiddish song culture — and who served...
(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...
JTA — In 1986, eight years after Jimmy Carter established the President’s Commission on the Holocaust with Elie Weisel as its chairman, little...
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...
JTA — Richard Barancik, the last surviving member of the Allied military corps that hunted down and recovered countless artworks stolen by the...
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...
JTA — In an essay she wrote in June, Marlena Spieler reminisced about her grandfather’s neighborhood in San Francisco in one long, exuberant...
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...
JTA — Reuben Baron was nothing if not persistent. As a social psychologist at the University of Connecticut, he and colleague David Kenny submitted...
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...
JTA — Robert Gottlieb, the legendary literary editor who shepherded into print and best-sellerdom such 20th-century classics as Joseph Heller’s...
JTA — “Although I was born in Germany, my formative years were spent in the early, idealistic days of the cooperative Jewish settlements, in...
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...
JTA — When Rabbi Arthur Green gave the commencement address last week at the Jewish Theological Seminary, the Conservative flagship where he was...
JTA — Magda Teter’s new book, “Christian Supremacy,” begins in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 11, 2017. Hundreds of white nationalist...
JTA — Sam Zell, a Chicago real estate magnate and son of Holocaust survivors who led a tumultuous leveraged buyout that bankrupted the Tribune media...
JTA — Jeff Sharlet admits up front that his book about what he and others call the “Trumpocene” epoch is not objective. “Transparent...
JTA — Jerry Springer, the son of Jewish refugees who set aside a promising political career to become the ringleader of a circus-like syndicated...
(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...
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...
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...
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....
(JTA) — In the early 1960s, a Bulgarian-born scientist named Raphael Mechoulam was caught carrying five kilograms of, as he called it, “superb,...
JTA — Jeremy Dauber subtitles his new biography of Mel Brooks “Disobedient Jew.” It’s a phrase that captures two indivisible aspects of the...
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...
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...
(JTA) — Songwriter Burt Bacharach, who with his longtime lyricist Hal David turned out a string of hits in the 1960s and ’70s — including...
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...
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...
LONDON — England’s Arsenal soccer club revealed on Wednesday that an investigation has been launched into a pair of “disturbing” antisemitic...
JTA — “Koshersoul,” chef Michael W. Twitty’s memoir about his career fusing Jewish and African-American culinary histories, was named the...
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...
JTA — Israel’s new governing coalition has been called the “most right-wing” in the nation’s history. That is heartening to supporters who...
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...
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,...