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Jason Isaacs attends the Los Angeles premiere of HBO's 'The White Lotus' season 3 at Paramount Theater on February 10, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. (Emma McIntyre/Getty Images/AFP)
February 11, 2025, 2:58 pm
‘Harry Potter’ star Jason Isaacs sports hostage ribbon at TV premiere
Jewish actor has been spotted in the past few months wearing yellow lapel pin, has declined to discuss the ongoing Gaza conflict
By ToI Staff
A screen capture from an 'Eretz Nehederet' video featuring US actor Michael Rapaport. (Screenshot, 'Eretz Nehederet', used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 13, 2023, 1:44 pm
Michael Rapaport in Israeli TV skit satirizing US college antisemitism
Harry Potter sketch mocks heads of universities who refused to directly condemn calls for genocide of Jews; satirical song highlights inequality between Hamas leaders, Gaza civilians
By ToI Staff
12-year-old Noya Dan, seen here in a Harry Potter-inspired costume, was murdered by Hamas alongside her grandmother Carmela on October 7, 2023, in Kibbutz Nir Oz. (via X)
October 31, 2023, 1:22 am
A Harry Potter fan’s murder reverberates from Israel to Boston
Back in the US, Jason Greenberg mourns relatives killed and captured by Hamas, including autistic girl Noya Dan: ‘She was an interminable Harry Potter fan. It kind of defined her’
By Penny Schwartz
12-year-old Noya Dan, seen here in a Harry Potter-inspired costume, was murdered by Hamas alongside her grandmother Carmela on October 7, 2023, in Kibbutz Nir Oz. (via X)
October 19, 2023, 4:52 pm
12-year-old Harry Potter fan championed by J.K. Rowling found murdered by Hamas
Shared by Israel’s X account, story of autistic girl and her grandmother helped world see massacres; pair originally thought captured by terror group in vicious Oct. 7 incursion
By ToI Staff
Some have accused the new video game, Hogwarts Legacy, as peddling in antisemitic caricatures of goblins. (YouTube screenshot/Hogwarts Legacy via JTA)
February 11, 2023, 4:27 am
Are the goblins in blockbuster Harry Potter game ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ antisemitic?
Newly released video game revives criticism that hook-nosed creatures running wizard bank echo racist tropes about Jews and money
By Jacob Henry
Robbie Coltrane arrives in Trafalgar Square, central London, for the world premiere of 'Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 2,' the last film in the series on July 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Jonathan Short, File)
October 15, 2022, 6:26 am
Harry Potter’s Hagrid, actor Robbie Coltrane, dies aged 72
Beloved Scottish star was also known for stints in ‘Blackadder,’ the James Bond franchise and numerous other film and television roles
By AFP
Entertainer and activist Jon Stewart speaks during a press conference at the Capitol in Washington, May 26, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
January 5, 2022, 11:35 pm
‘Out of context nonsense’: Jon Stewart says he never accused Rowling of antisemitism
Comedian says media entirely misrepresented his point on portrayal of goblins in ‘Harry Potter’; adds: ‘I really love the Harry Potter movies. Probably too much for my age’
By Amy Spiro
Author J.K. Rowling attends the HBO Documentary Films premiere of 'Finding the Way Home' at 30 Hudson Yards on Wednesday, December 11, 2019, in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
January 5, 2022, 8:29 pm
Jewish groups defend J.K. Rowling over claim ‘Harry Potter’ goblins antisemitic
After comedian Jon Stewart says the books’ portrayal of goblins clearly based on Jew hatred, groups suggest Rowling was merely tapping into centuries of cultural context
By Amy Spiro
Animatronic bank tellers at Gringotts Bank, part of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando, Florida, are seen on June 19, 2014. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
January 5, 2022, 2:07 pm
Daily Briefing Jan. 5 – Israel’s draconian abortion process & J.K. Rowling’s goblins
US correspondent Jacob Magid updates us on a new development in PA-US tit-for-tat politics and reporter Carrie Keller-Lynn goes in-depth on humiliating procedures for abortions
By ToI Staff
A goblin at the Gringotts bank, part of Warner Bros' 'The Making of Harry Potter Tour in London (courtesy/ www.wbstudiotour.co.uk)
January 5, 2022, 1:31 am
Jon Stewart says J.K. Rowling’s ‘Harry Potter’ goblin characters clearly antisemitic
‘That’s a caricature of a Jew from an antisemitic piece of literature’: Comedian surprised there wasn’t wider outcry over depiction of hooked-nosed characters that run the banks
By Shira Hanau
Emma Watson poses for photographers at The Earthshot Prize Awards Ceremony, Alexandra Palace, England, Sunday, Oct. 17, 2021. (AP/Scott Garfitt)
January 4, 2022, 4:40 am
UN envoy lashes out at Harry Potter star Emma Watson for Palestinian solidarity post
Gilad Erdan mocks actor, denounces Palestinian Authority and Hamas in response to statement supporting pro-Palestinian activism
By ToI Staff
Jason Isaacs at the British Independent Film Awards in London, Dec. 1, 2019. (Wiktor Szymanowicz/Barcroft Media via Getty Images via JTA)
August 5, 2020, 8:33 am
‘Harry Potter’ star Jason Isaacs opens up about his struggle with addiction
Jewish actor, famous for playing the character of Lucius Malfoy in film series, says he began ‘decades’ of drug abuse when he was still a teenager
By Emily Burack
Yiddish linguist Arun Viswanath has brought the first of the Harry Potter series to speakers of the mamaloshen around the globe. (Courtesy)
May 23, 2020, 5:10 am
For young translator of sold-out ‘Harry Potter,’ Yiddish is truly his mamaloshen
How Arun Viswanath, the 29-year-old scion of a US literary dynasty, translated series opener ‘The Philosopher’s Stone’ into the language of Sholem Aleichem is a story in itself
By Alex Surin
Daniel Radcliffe in the film adaptation of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." (Peter Mountain/WireImage, via JTA)
May 7, 2020, 11:20 pm
Daniel Radcliffe reads ‘Harry Potter’ to online audience
Stay-at-home initiative kicks off with an excerpt from ‘Sorcerer’s Stone’ as part of efforts to entertain kids, adults, under virus lockdown; other stars to read 16 chapters
By Marcy Oster
Daniel Radcliffe in the film adaptation of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." (Peter Mountain/WireImage via JTA)
February 8, 2020, 4:45 am
The first ‘Harry Potter’ book is now available in Yiddish
‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’ translated by Arun Viswanath, son of US Yiddish-language poet Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath
By Gabe Friedman
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