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Carnival

Max Solomon, dressed for participation in a pre-lent Carnival as president of the the Kleinen Kolner Klub, or Little Cologne Club, pre-1933. (Courtesy Laura Chanin/JTA)
March 13, 2021, 1:39 pm
COVID-19 postpones revival of Cologne Jewish Carnival tradition ended by Nazis
Until the Nazis forbade it in 1933, the Jewish Kleinen Kolner Klub competed in annual parade. Now the ‘Cologne kippah heads’ will have to wait a little longer to rejoin
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Carnival float in the Spanish town of Campo de Criptana features uniforms of Nazis, concentration camp inmates and crematoria trains, in February 2020. (YouTube screenshot via JTA)
February 27, 2020, 3:58 pm
Israeli ambassador denounces anti-Semitic float at Spanish carnival
Rodica Radian-Gordon tweets that Monday parade that included costumes of Jewish Holocaust victims and Nazi soldiers is ‘affront’ to Holocaust victims
By AP
Carnival float in the Spanish town of Campo de Criptana features uniforms of Nazis, concentration camp inmates and crematoria trains, in February 2020. (YouTube screenshot via JTA)
February 26, 2020, 8:05 pm
Top Spanish diplomat ‘horrified’ at Holocaust-themed carnival parade
Festival in Spanish town of Campo de Criptana featured figures dressed as Nazi guards, Jewish death camp inmates and children wearing yellow stars
By AFP
Carnival float in the Spanish town of Campo de Criptana features uniforms of Nazis, concentration camp inmates and crematoria trains, in February 2020. (YouTube screenshot via JTA)
February 25, 2020, 10:22 pm
Carnival float in Spain features Nazi uniforms and trains with crematoria
Israeli embassy lashes ‘vile and repugnant’ procession in Campo de Criptana for ‘making fun of the murder of millions of Jews by the Nazis’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
People dressed as ultra-Orthodox Jews/ants are seen before the start of the Aalst Carnival's on February 23, 2020, in Aalst, Belgium. (James Arthur Gekiere/AFP)
February 25, 2020, 5:12 pm
Carnival that showed Jews as vermin ‘not anti-Semitic,’ Jewish Belgian MP says
Michael Freilich, Belgium’s only Orthodox lawmaker, says fewer than 50 of 6,000 participants presented anti-Jewish displays, compares Aalst procession to Israeli Purim parades
By Raphael Ahren
Brothers Patric and Frank Levy, aboard their float at the Cologne carnival, or Rosenmontag, in 2019. (Toby Axelrod)
March 22, 2019, 6:28 am
German Jews go all in with a Catholic Carnival tradition
For the first time since the 1930s, when the Nazis forbade Jewish participation in the festivities, a Jewish club marches in Cologne, joining the revelry under its own banner
By Toby Axelrod
A parade float at the Aalst Carnaval in Belgium featuring caricatures of Orthodox Jews atop money bags, March 3, 2019. (Courtesy of FJO, via JTA)
March 7, 2019, 4:45 am
Confronted with anti-Semitism complaints, Belgium float-makers have no regrets
Vismooil’n group members and Aalst mayor see no problem with using caricatures of Jews to express money concerns, say those offended by carnival float are ‘living in the past’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A float advertising the incubator show. (Courtesy Dawn Raffel)
September 30, 2018, 4:07 am
As hospitals prematurely spurned incubators, this carnival showman saved lives
A new book details how, despite his bunk credentials, ‘Dr.’ Martin Arthur Couney successfully nurtured thousands of preemie babies back to health on the sideshow midways of America
By Rich Tenorio
Participants at a traditional Carnival parade in Maastricht, the Netherlands, March 2, 2014. (Marcel Van Hoorn/AFP/Getty Images/via JTA)
February 14, 2018, 8:32 pm
For Jews in the Netherlands, Catholic Carnival feels like ‘hardcore Purim’
Despite the festival’s dark anti-Semitic roots, some Jewish revelers join the fray — this time as participants and not victims
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A reveler of the Portela samba school performs during the second night of Rio's Carnival at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on February 12, 2018. (AFP/Mauro PIMENTEL)
February 14, 2018, 4:19 am
Saga of Brazil’s Jewish refugees recounted in festive Carnival parade
Floats and costumes narrate story of Jews arrival to Recife and founding of hemisphere’s first congregation, before being forced to New York
By Marcus M. Gilban
Jewish ex-Brit Samantha Mortner-Flores, at the Rio carnival in Brazil on February 9, 2018. (Credit: @samanthaflores on Instagram via Jewish News)
From the WebFebruary 12, 2018, 11:40 pm
‘Nice Jewish girl from north London’ stars in Rio Carnival
Samantha Mortner, 37, was at forefront of ‘biggest party on earth’ on Friday, Jewish News reports, leading the first float of Brazil’s world-famous street parade
Juan Tajes at his studio in Amsterdam in 2016. (Courtesy of Juan Tajes/via JTA)
March 11, 2017, 9:15 am
A Jewish artist draws inspiration, and customers, from Amsterdam’s Red Light District
In a neighborhood in which both patrons and workers hide their identities, Juan Tajes peddles masks that not only conceal faces, but also symbolize new beginnings
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A performer from Mocidade samba school parades on a float during the Carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, February 8, 2016. (AP/Leo Correa)
February 23, 2017, 9:49 pm
To avoid sexy Carnival, Rio mayor mulls Israel visit
Brazilian media speculate that Pentecostal former senator Marcelo Crivella may make trip to Holy Land during festival
By PETER PRENGAMAN
Performer Joshua Rudy appears in King Richard's Faire as the master-at-arms in Carver, Massachusetts, September 24, 2016 (Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)
October 17, 2016, 10:43 pm
For ‘Renaissance’ Jews, all the world’s a joust
From coast to coast, Jews fill the ranks of elaborate outdoor festival productions, finding connections between Judaism and their penchant for reenacting days of yore
By Matt Lebovic
A police officer patrols inside Rio de Janeiro International Airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, July 27, 2016. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
July 30, 2016, 3:17 am
Rio readies for worst as terror threat hangs over Olympics
With a half-million visitors heading to Brazil for Games from August 5, experts worry security is inadequate
By Joshua Goodman and Mauricio SAVARESE
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