admin | March 26, 2022
(JTA) A new museum about the history of Hollywood will have a permanent exhibition devoted to the contributions of Jews after early criticism that Jews were omitted. The change was announced this week in the lead-up to this years Academy Awards, which features a slate of nominees more diverse than in the past
admin | March 26, 2022
(JTA) Elliot Steinmetz knows something about firsts: last July, his son Jacob became the first known Orthodox baseball player to get picked in the MLB draft. The elder Steinmetz is also the head coach of the Yeshiva University mens basketball team, a squad of Modern Orthodox players that shocked the sports world with an unlikely 50-game winning streak that spanned multiple seasons. The teams leader was Ryan Turell, a 6-foot-7 guard who has entered the NBA draft, hoping to become the leagues first Orthodox player
admin | March 26, 2022
A Milwaukee Jewish organization has released an annual audit of reported antisemitic incidents in Wisconsin.
admin | March 26, 2022
April 2 marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Hermann Rorschach, the Swiss psychoanalyst who propounded the Rorschach inkblot test, still used as a means of evaluating mental conditions. The Rorschach test immediately attracted strong support from Jewish clinicians.
admin | March 26, 2022
Most people can identify the developers of the worlds most important vaccines, including Louis Pasteur (rabies, anthrax), Edward Jenner (smallpox), and Jonas Salk (polio and influenza), but the name Mordechai Wolff (Waldemar) Haffkine, an Orthodox Jew who is credited with the development and use of vaccines against cholera and bubonic plague, has been forgotten, even though he arguably saved far more lives than they did. He was hailed as the Jewish Jenner; he was characterized by Joseph Lister, the pioneer of antiseptic surgery, as a savior of humanity; and, in R. Joseph Hertzs well-known second edition of the Soncino Chumash, the influential chief rabbi of the British Empire noted that he was a famous scientist
admin | March 26, 2022
(New York Jewish Week) Fresh off of a mission on the Ukrainian border, a Messianic group that seeks Jews to accept Jesus is setting its sights on Jewish New Yorkers. Chosen People Ministries is one two Messianic groups that announced plans this week to visit New York and share their gospel this summer, causing alarm for some Jews in the city who say that their practices are disrespectful.
admin | March 8, 2022
CHISINAU, Moldova At a synagogue in central Chisinau on Monday, an Israeli social worker, Omer Hod, had a flash of historical vertigo. Ms
admin | March 8, 2022
In the twenty-first century a democratic European country is being invaded by a totalitarian aggressor and the world watches and does not intervene militarily. History does indeed repeat itself. It is eerily reminiscent of how the world stood by in silence in the twentieth century as another totalitarian dictator gobbled up Czechoslovakia and Austria.
admin | March 8, 2022
Rob Eshman, The ForwardMarch 5, 2022 This story was originally published on Feb. 4 by the Forward.
admin | March 8, 2022
Who knew that the actor with the scarred face, who would define the onscreen tough guy stereotype of Italian mobsters was just a Jewish guy with a Shanya Punim. Born Frederich Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund in what is now Lviv, Ukraine, Paul Muni began acting in Chicago alongside his parents in the Yiddish theater. He had range from the beginning.
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