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Paul Rudd plays Moe Berg in 'The Catcher Was a Spy.' (Courtesy of IFC Films/via JTA)

Film review

In ‘Catcher Was a Spy,’ Paul Rudd is a Jewish baseball player turned Nazi hunter

Opening Friday, new film reveals Moe Berg wasn't just a rare breed due to his religion -- the major leaguer also spoke 10 languages, which led to his recruitment as a WWII agent

Immigrant center planned in the grounds of Boston’s oldest Jewish cemetery

By Matt Lebovic

Royal boost for LA designer as Meghan Markle spotted wearing her earrings

By Renee Ghert-Zand

New book claims a ‘secret deal’ between Nazis and Allies cut the Holocaust short

By Matt Lebovic

Comic book is the first such publication authorized by the Anne Frank Foundation. (Ari Folman)

September 7, 2017, 7:10 pm

Anne Frank’s diary is now a comic book; animated film will follow

Authorized graphic diary illustrates teen's dreams and fantasies, draws from her humorous anecdotes, features allusions to Munch and Klimt

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Director Darren Aronofsky at the opening of the Berlin Film Festival in 2015. (Wikimedia Commons/Siebbi)

September 7, 2017, 11:33 am

Darren Aronofsky’s new film ‘Mother!’ is absolutely unhinged

Opening at the Venice Film Festival to a mix of boos and cheers, the director's latest movie is said to be his oddest yet

By Yaakov Schwartz

Jewish Agency emissaries assisting recovery efforts in Houston in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. (The Jewish Agency for Israel)

September 7, 2017, 10:20 am

Jewish students, Chabad rabbis, and kosher salami firm pitch in to help Houston

Taube Philanthropies grants $1 million for relief work; Abeles & Heymann deli company starts food aid drive

By JTA

Maya Beiser performing an orchestral version of David Bowie’s 'Blackstar' album at the L’Auditori in Barcelona, Spain, July 13, 2017. (Robert Marquardt/Redferns/via JTA)

September 7, 2017, 6:30 am

Cello goddess Maya Beiser wants classical music to rock like Janis Joplin

Despite a successful 30-year career playing with traditional ensembles, Beiser is not your typical cellist

By Gabe Friedman

Mike Tolkin, the youngest candidate in the Democratic primary for New York mayor, at a city cafe, Sept. 5, 2017. (Josefin Dolsten/JTA)

September 7, 2017, 4:05 am

The Jewish millennial trading tech success for a dark horse NYC mayoral bid

Mike Tolkin isn't expected to beat out incumbent Bill De Blasio, but the entrepreneur has big plans for the Big Apple if he does

By Josefin Dolsten

A screen capture from an attack ad against Cory Booker by the Emergency Committee for Israel. (Screen capture: YouTube)

September 7, 2017, 3:15 am

Attack ad targets Cory Booker for voting against Taylor Force Act

Right-wing Committee for Israel goes after New Jersey senator who was among four to oppose bill cutting PA funding

By Eric Cortellessa

A white supremacist carrying a Nazi flag into Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Virginia, August 12, 2017. (AP/Steve Helber)

September 7, 2017, 1:41 am

Senators push bill urging Trump to tackle hate groups

Bipartisan effort sponsored by Virginia lawmakers describes Charlottesville violence as 'domestic terror attack'

By Matthew Daly

Then US president Barack Obama embraces Elie Wiesel before delivering a speech about the Holocaust and its meaning at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, April 23, 2012. (Courtesy USHMM/JTA)

September 7, 2017, 12:19 am

US Holocaust museum pulls study on Obama inaction in Syria

Official memorial rethinking research after being criticized for saying ex-president was correct in doing little to prevent slaughter

By JTA

September 6, 2017, 11:23 pm

NY Hasidic mother who came out as lesbian regains custody of her children

Appeals court restores Chavie Weisberger's guardianship over her kids, but rules she must keep a kosher home, send children to religious schools

By JTA

The Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland. (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)

September 6, 2017, 9:36 pm

Poles honored for ‘true heroism’ for rescuing Jews during Holocaust

At event lauding Polish rescuers, Israel's deputy ambassador calls honorees 'a beacon of hope in our society'

By JTA

German supporters light flares during the FIFA World Cup 2018 qualification soccer match between Czech Republic and Germany in Prague, Czech Republic, on September 1, 2017. (AFP/Robert Michael)

September 6, 2017, 8:20 pm

FIFA prosecutes Germany for soccer fans’ Nazi chants

World soccer body to rule soon on shouts of 'Sieg Hiel' by supporters of the German national team at recent match

By Agencies and TOI staff

The Myers rimonim at the center of the Touro synagogue dispute. (Courtesy: Boston Museum of Fine Arts)

September 6, 2017, 8:10 pm

Newport congregation renews battle for artifacts at oldest US synagogue

Jeshuat Israel calls for federal court to rehear case granting custody of ornaments at Touro to NY's Shearith Israel

By JTA

In this May 19, 2017 photo a church bell with the inscription 'Everything for the fatherland Adolf Hitler' and a swastika is pictured in the town church in Herxheim am Berg, western Germany. (Uwe Anspach/dpa via AP, file)

September 6, 2017, 8:05 pm

German mayor resigns after dispute over ‘Hitler bell’

Roland Becker sparks outrage over comments on WWII-era bell in church with Nazi swastika and inscription 'Everything for the Fatherland'

By AP

In this Oct. 17, 2016 photo, Stanley Fischer, vice chairman of the Federal Reserve board of governors, speaks to the Economic Club of New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

September 6, 2017, 7:36 pm

Fed Vice Chairman Fischer to resign for ‘personal reasons’

Departure of former Bank of Israel head adds to leadership vacuum, giving Trump opportunity to reshape economic policy

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and Martin Crutsinger

Undated photo of Bnei Akiva in Germany's winter camp (Bnei Akiva in Germany)

September 6, 2017, 7:09 pm

After 8 decades, Religious Zionist youth movement reopens in Germany

Bnei Akiva head says gaining charitable status is 'another little victory over the Nazis and the new anti-Semites'

By JTA