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Walter Yetnikoff, president of CBS records (right), and Michael Jackson celebrate at the Guinness Book of World Records party honoring Michael Jackson for the top selling solo album in history at the Museum of Natural History on Feb 8, 1984. (Sonia Moskowitz/Getty Images, via JTA)
May 9, 2026, 6:53 pm
Michael Jackson biopic revives legend of Jewish music mogul Walter Yetnikoff
Film touts CBS Records chief’s purported role in pressuring MTV to air ‘Billie Jean,’ which Jackson’s estate credits for ‘opening the floodgates for his extraordinary success and a whole generation of black artists’
By Stephen Silver
Etgar Keret and his wife Shira Geffen speak about their work in Ness Ziona, Israel, Aug. 28, 2024. (Via Facebook)
October 1, 2024, 7:30 am
Writer Etgar Keret wants to remain useful and sane in a post-October 7 world
Promoting his new book, author tells of his work with victims, the challenge of the ‘narcissistic’ anti-Israel far-left, and his internal barriers brought down by the massacre
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Digital issues under the 70 Faces Media brand (Janice Hwang via JTA)
January 12, 2021, 7:49 am
70 Faces Media acquires the New York Jewish Week
Newspaper was forced to suspend print operations in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic
By JTA
Morgan Spector, center, as Herman Levin, and Zoe Kazan, right, as Bess Levin, in HBO's "The Plot Against America." (Michele K. Short/HBO)
April 18, 2020, 4:40 pm
I cover anti-Semitism. ‘The Plot Against America’ is the scariest show I’ve seen
With an incredibly realistic world and characters, and an unsettling sense of government manipulation, TV drama has made everything I work with feel more close to home
By Gabe Friedman
Philissa Cramer, editor in chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, was a co-founder of the education news site Chalkbeat. (Courtesy of Cramer/via JTA)
January 15, 2020, 12:40 am
Philissa Cramer named editor in chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The co-founder of the education-focused journalistic nonprofit Chalkbeat brings to the job an ‘intimate familiarity’ with the Jewish world, news agency says
By JTA
New York Jewish Week editor Andrew Silow-Carroll. (Courtesy)
From the WebJuly 31, 2019, 8:30 pm
JTA editor to take over New York Jewish Week
Andrew Silow-Carroll to succeed Gary Rosenblatt at weekly community newspaper
Robert Arnow speaks at the dedication of the Robert H. Arnow Center for Bedouin Studies and Development at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in 2007. (BGU via JTA)
December 19, 2018, 2:11 am
Robert Arnow, NY philanthropist and real estate developer, dies at 94
Arnow was key backer of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and chairman of the board of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
By JTA
The Podol Synagogue in Kiev, Ukraine. (Youtube screenshot)
December 18, 2017, 5:06 pm
Menorah in Kiev vandalized with ‘blood,’ swastika
Police checking whether red liquid is pig blood; incident latest anti-Semitic vandalism in Ukraine in recent weeks
By JTA
A view of the Dutch parliament building in The Hague, Netherlands, March 14, 2017. (Carl Court/Getty Images via JTA)
November 9, 2017, 11:41 am
I was just accused of being an Israeli spy in the Dutch parliament
Lawmakers from pro-immigrant, Muslim rights party claim Jewish journalist and naturalized citizen spying on ‘pro-Palestine activists in Europe’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
YouTube/JTA
October 28, 2017, 2:39 am
In TV Show, Paul Rudd learns of anti-Semitism his family faced in London
With the help of 1947 JTA article, actor uncovers the hardships endured by his grandfather after World War II, as riots led by homegrown fascists broke out
By JTA
The Nate D. Sanders auction house advertises the sale of an iconic photo of Albert Einstein taken in 1951 and signed by the physicist. (Nate D. Sanders, Inc)
July 28, 2017, 6:24 pm
Iconic Einstein ‘tongue’ photo brings $125,000 at auction
Photo was taken at physicist’s 72nd birthday party at Princeton in 1951; he had tired of faking a smile for the cameras
By JTA
The Slingshot guide. (Web grab)
June 8, 2017, 1:13 pm
These are the 50 most innovative Jewish groups and projects
Slingshot guide includes a diverse mix from many different sectors of US community
By JTA
Jeremy Burton
April 1, 2016, 7:56 am
Jeremy Burton
Looking for women on JTA’s Twitter list
When 51% of the population is missing from the public eye, the entire community must protest their absence
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA's new editor-in-chief (JTA)
March 4, 2016, 11:59 am
Andrew Silow-Carroll tapped to lead JTA
Award-winning journalist hired as editor-in-chief of Jewish news agency
By Agencies
Albert Einstein, during a lecture in Vienna in 1921. (Wikipedia/public domain)
November 25, 2015, 8:53 am
Einstein once kept kosher, and 7 other Jewish facts for relativity’s 100th birthday
‘My relationship to the Jewish people has become my strongest human bond,’ he wrote to David Ben-Gurion in 1952
By Gabe Friedman
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