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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 539

American Jews

Palestinian children watch as the Israeli Civil Administration demolishes a home in At-Tuwani, a village in Masafer Yatta, on May 7, 2025. (Courtesy of Emily Glick)
Reporter's notebook
Why US art houses screen Oscar-winning Palestinian doc that mainstream theaters shun
By Rich Tenorio
Despite winning an Academy Award, ‘No Other Land’ is seldom seen in commercial cinemas. In many small theaters, showings are regularly full, audiences eager and reviews positive
Ultra-Orthodox Jews at Citi Field in New York gather to discuss Internet usage. (photo credit: AP/VosIzNeias.com
March 26, 2025, 5:38 pm
Pew Research Center survey: A quarter of US adults raised Jewish no longer identify as Jews
Survey of 78,000 people in 36 countries on ‘religious switching’ in the world also shows that 20% of the US Muslim population are converts
By Rossella Tercatin
Palestinian children watch as the Israeli Civil Administration demolishes a home in At-Tuwani, a village in Masafer Yatta, on May 7, 2025. (Courtesy of Emily Glick)
March 25, 2025, 10:37 pm
Why US art houses screen Oscar-winning Palestinian doc that mainstream theaters shun
Despite winning an Academy Award, ‘No Other Land’ is seldom seen in commercial cinemas. In many small theaters, showings are regularly full, audiences eager and reviews positive
By Rich Tenorio
Jeffrey Klein leading the seder in 1990. (Courtesy of Klein Family)
March 25, 2025, 8:57 am
Jeffrey Klein, Mother Jones co-founder led by Jewish values, dies at 77
Former editor-in-chief of progressive magazine traveled to USSR to meet refuseniks, saw ‘through line’ between oppression of Jews and his desire to investigate corruption
By Grace Gilson
Max Frankel working as The New York Times' Moscow correspondent in 1959. (Ben Martin/Getty Images)
March 24, 2025, 10:35 pm
Max Frankel, Jewish New York Times executive editor who fled the Nazis, dies at 94
Longtime American journalist swayed the Times into publishing the Pentagon Papers, won Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Nixon’s first visit to China
By Grace Gilson
Women pushing strollers walk past the Yeshiva Kehilath Yakov School in the South Williamsburg neighborhood, April 9, 2019 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Drew Angerer / Getty Images North America / Getty Images via AFP)
March 21, 2025, 8:44 am
Three more NYC yeshivas to lose funding as secular education standards take effect
Parents at ultra-Orthodox schools in Brooklyn told to look elsewhere for their kids’ education, ahead of New York’s June 30 deadline for secular education mandate
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Cyan Banister and Arielle Zuckerberg, two of the venture capitalists behind the new 'Long Journey' fund, pictured in 2024. (Taylor Hill/Getty Images via JTA)
March 21, 2025, 8:20 am
Arielle Zuckerberg, partners launch $181,818,181 fund for ‘magically weird’ startups
Lee Jacobs says Hamas attack ‘awakened something dormant at my core,’ announcing, with Meta CEO’s sister, symbolically summed venture capitalist fund for innovative tech founders
By JTA and ToI Staff
New York Bagel Bakery in Philadelphia has served kosher-keeping customers for decades. Its longtime owner was recently accused of antisemitism, a charge he denies. (Screenshot from Google Maps via JTA)
March 21, 2025, 12:42 am
Longtime Palestinian owner of Philly kosher bagel store schmeared over Oct. 7 posts
After 27 years serving the community, Nick Sammoudi is the subject of an online petition as customers ask for his certification to be revoked amid claims he’s leading a double life
By Ben Sales
Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner is interviewed on local news station WLPG News 10, in a segment uploaded to YouTube on November 3, 2024. (Screenshot)
March 20, 2025, 12:03 pm
Miami Beach mayor retracts effort to evict theater for showing ‘No Other Land’
Mayor Steven Meiner, who called documentary about Israel razing Palestinian village ‘antisemitic,’ faces swift backlash for suggesting revoking local theater’s lease for showing it
By Grace Gilson
Raif Rashed, an Israeli Druze and the owner of Taboonia, wraps up a pita with labneh in New York City, March 2025. (Jackie Hajdenberg/ JTA)
March 19, 2025, 1:12 am
After tragedy, Supernova festival survivor opens Israeli Druze restaurant in NYC
Raif Rashed launches new eatery Taboonia following Oct. 7, finding comfort in the foods of his youth – and in the wave of Jewish and Israeli support that is pouring in
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer gives a television interview at the Capitol in Washington, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
March 17, 2025, 5:26 pm
US Jews think Oct. 7 ‘could happen here’: 10 quotes from Chuck Schumer’s NYT interview
Published just before his book ‘Antisemitism in America: A Warning’ hits shelves, wide-ranging discussion includes concerns on how the Hamas atrocities indelibly affected US Jewry
By Ben Sales
US Rep. Nita Lowey in the Capitol, October 16, 2019. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images via JTA)
March 17, 2025, 2:34 am
Nita Lowey, longtime Jewish US congresswoman and Mideast peace advocate, dies at 87
New York native who represented the state for over 30 years in Congress advocated for Israel and battled against eroding bipartisan support for Jewish state
By PHILISSA CRAMER and Ron Kampeas
Rabbi Moses 'Mo' Zaltzman, played by actor Mark Feuerstein, in 'Guns & Moses.' (Courtesy)
March 16, 2025, 6:19 am
A gunslinging rabbi takes on an antisemitic whodunit in this thrilling Jewish Western
Screening March 16 at the Boca International Jewish Film Festival, ‘Guns & Moses’ targets all-too-real themes for US Jews while keeping audiences on the edge of their seats
By Rich Tenorio
An undated photo shows three editions of the 'Superman' comic book. (AP Photo/ Ed Bailey)
March 15, 2025, 8:34 am
Truth, justice and Yiddishisms: How superhero comics tell the tale of American Jews
Marvel and DC were both started by 2nd-generation Jewish immigrants eager to break comic industry’s glass ceiling, share their families’ stories and punch Hitler right in the kisser
By Miriam Eve Mora
Illustrative photo of bagels. (CC-BY-SA, Rattfink Press/Ellen Arnstein, rattfinkpress.blogspot.com)
March 14, 2025, 3:55 pm
US bagel shop comes back around after quitting Jewish food fest over Israel pressure
Isaac’s Bagels bites off more than it can chew; is roundly criticized for signing up for and then for backing out of event organized by Jewish federation in North Carolina
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Shabbat services at the 2025 Keshet Shabbaton for LGBTQ+ Jews of Color (Courtesy/Keshet)
March 13, 2025, 1:01 am
Isolated and excluded: New survey highlights challenges of global LGBTQ+ Jews of Color
Survey of 90 Jews in 20 states and four international locations conducted by US nonprofit Keshet finds most communities have a lot of work to do to make gay Jews of Color feel included
By Zev Stub
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