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Jackie Hajdenberg (JTA)
Pic: https://sasundergrad.rutgers.edu/convocation
May 7, 2026, 12:22 pm
US university cancels graduation speaker over tweet claiming Israelis ‘train dogs to sexually assault prisoners’
Rami Elghandour is a biotech executive and a producer of 'The Voice of Hind Rajab'
By Jackie Hajdenberg (JTA)
Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto Congregation was hit with gunfire shortly before midnight Friday. No injuries were reported.
March 10, 2026, 10:29 am
2 more Toronto-area synagogues hit with gunfire on Shabbat, raising alarm among local Jews
A different synagogue was struck on Purim, five days before
By Jackie Hajdenberg (JTA)
Police officers detain a man at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, Germany, after another man was seriously injured, February 21, 2025. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP via Times of Israel)
March 6, 2026, 9:30 am
Man who stabbed Spanish tourist at Berlin Holocaust memorial sentenced to 13 years in prison
The 19-year-old Syrian asylum seeker told authorities at the time of the incident that he wanted to kill Jews
By Jackie Hajdenberg (JTA)
From left to right: Meghan Leathers, Jon Bass, Theo Taplitz, Kyra Sedgwick, Method Man, Milana Vayntrub, Adam Mitchell, and Daniel Robbins speak onstage during the 25th Atlanta Jewish Film Festival 'Bad Shabbos' opening night premiere at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center on February 19, 2025, in Atlanta, Georgia. (Derek White/ AFP)
February 26, 2026, 10:18 am
Atlanta Jewish Film Festival apologises for selecting anti-Zionist juror to judge human rights films
The festival said it could not remove the panelist because judging was already underway
By Jackie Hajdenberg (JTA)
(Screenshot via WebArchive, Shop.Olympics.com. Design by Jackie Hajdenberg)
February 16, 2026, 10:40 am
Olympics committee defends sale of T-shirt commemorating 1936 Nazi-era Games
Wiener Holocaust Library and International March of the Living have condemned the shirt, which has sold out
By Jackie Hajdenberg (JTA)
Credit Suisse HQ. Pic: Wikipedia
February 9, 2026, 10:12 am
Investigation shows Swiss bank had more accounts with Nazi ties than previously known
Investigator says Credit Suisse provided direct financial support to help Nazis flee to Argentina
By Jackie Hajdenberg (JTA)
Timothee Chalamet and Marty Reisman
December 18, 2025, 12:00 pm
Will Timothée Chalamet get Oscar for portrayal of ping pong player Marty Reisman?
Marty Supreme is the true story of the 'bad boy of ping pong' who grew up on the Lower East Side
By Jackie Hajdenberg (JTA)
June 17, 2025, 2:57 pm
New York’s special initative in honour of Anne Frank’s 96th birthday
10,000 copies of The Diary of Anne Frank are being given out for free in New York
By Jackie Hajdenberg (JTA)
Holocaust survivor Helena Weinstock Weinrauch, who wore the same hand-knit sweater to the first Passover seder every year for the past 75 years, has died at 100. (Karen Goldfarb)
May 29, 2025, 11:57 am
Holocaust survivor and ‘dancing angel,’ dies at 100
Helena Weinrauch was known for her late-in-life passion for ballroom dancing, as well as for wearing the same hand-knit sweater at Passover every year
By Jackie Hajdenberg (JTA)
Raif Rashed
April 16, 2025, 3:55 pm
Nova survivor opens restaurant in New York
Taboonia is the city’s second Druze restaurant — and the first to seek kosher certification.
By Jackie Hajdenberg (JTA)
A Jewish mother and an illustrator have teamed up to create an unofficial Taylor Swift haggadah for Passover this year. (Courtesy Shelley Atlas Serber, Wikimedia. Design by Jackie Hajdenberg)
April 11, 2024, 10:34 am
The exodus story you know ‘All Too Well’ gets retold in new Taylor Swift haggadah
"When we started talking about Pesach, she remarked that there are a lot of parallels between the story and themes of Pesach, and Taylor Swift’s music — and the idea was born!” 
By Jackie Hajdenberg (JTA)
A special exhibit at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, "Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race," explores how the Nazis developed racial health policies that began with the mass sterilization of individuals considered to be "biological threats." (Courtesy United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
April 4, 2024, 11:16 am
Leading American medical journal faces down its own history of endorsing Nazi race science
Titled “Nazism and the Journal,” the article is part of a series written by independent historians that focuses on biases and injustices that New England Journal of Medicine has historically countenanced
By Jackie Hajdenberg (JTA)
Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat, one of the architects of the 1998 Washington Principles, delivers remarks at a 25th anniversary convening. (Courtesy WJRO and Claims Conference)
March 11, 2024, 9:53 am
21 countries agree to updated guidelines on Nazi-looted art as researchers say much work remains
The new best practices document specifies that works sold under duress during the Holocaust are considered looted or confiscated by the Nazis
By Jackie Hajdenberg (JTA)
Eden Golan represented Israel in the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest. (Screenshot via Mako.co.il)
March 4, 2024, 7:01 am
Second Israeli song entry for Eurovision in dispute as contest deadline approaches
The European Broadcasting Union, which runs the competition, declined to accept the first song Israel submitted to the contest because of a ban on political messaging.
By Jackie Hajdenberg (JTA)
Stan Polovets (right) cofounder of the Genesis Prize, with some of the 2024 awardees, the parents of hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Rachel Goldberg (center) and Jon Polin (left), for their activism on the hostages held in Gaza.
February 29, 2024, 9:06 am
Groups working to support Israeli hostages and their families awarded 2024 ‘Jewish Nobel’
Presented annually since 2013, the award is given by the Genesis Prize Foundation and has historically gone to Jewish celebrities or public figures.
By Jackie Hajdenberg (JTA)
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