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Anchorage, Alaska mayor Ethan Berkowitz after voting on election day. (Courtesy City of Anchorage)
April 13, 2018, 11:56 pm
Moose and salmon all in a day’s work for reelected Jewish Alaskan mayor
Ethan Berkowitz is actually the third member of the Tribe to hold his post, but in a city that has the most diverse neighborhood in the US, maybe that shouldn’t come as a surprise
By Gregory Gutterman Scruggs
Left to right: Naomi Strand of Northwest Detention Center Resistance (NWDCR), Kim Berman of Kadima, and Wendy Pantoja of NWDCR after the award ceremony. (Tomas Madrigal)
January 26, 2018, 10:15 pm
Seattle synagogue gives inaugural ‘tikkun olam’ award to immigrant rights group
Seeing a parallel with Jewish history, the Reconstructionist Kadima congregation honors Northwest Detention Center Resistance in solidarity against Trump administration policy
By Gregory Gutterman Scruggs
George and Judy Tanner pose with the sign they held at a February rally after a surge in neo-Nazi and anti-Semitic graffiti appeared in Eugene, Oregon. (Judy Tanner)
January 5, 2018, 7:44 pm
Anti-Semitic uptick in Oregon college town as neo-Nazis come out of the woodwork
Incidents of Jew hatred skyrocket this year in the Pacific Northwest, a little-known bastion of white supremacy
By Gregory Gutterman Scruggs
Performer Eddie Vitch with cabaret dancers in the late 1950s. (Courtesy Sigal Bujman)
October 27, 2017, 12:13 pm
As jester to Göring and Goebbels, was this Jewish comic a Nazi collaborator?
Before reaching Hollywood, Eddie Vitch was one of Europe’s greatest entertainers of German soldiers at the height of WWII
By Gregory Gutterman Scruggs
A banner made by one of the petitioners at the vigil for slain Seattle mother Charleena Lyles, right. (Rainer Waldman Adkins)
June 27, 2017, 3:24 am
Police shooting, protests prompt Seattle Jewish Federation to halt annual award
A ceremony recognizing Seattle’s finest for ‘repairing the world’ is on hold after a pregnant mother of four was shot in her home when she called in a burglary
By Gregory Gutterman Scruggs
Rabbi Mendel Azimov, president of Chabad of Paris, lit a Hanukkah menorah in front of the Eiffel Tower on December 6, 2015. (Greg Scruggs/The Times of Israel)
December 7, 2015, 12:52 pm
For Parisian Jews this holiday, celebrating Hanukkah is a miracle
Despite the ongoing state of emergency in France, the Festival of Lights is publicly feted in the City of Light
By Gregory Gutterman Scruggs
Israeli-American artist Ori Alon helps a passerby fill out the necessary paperwork for a forgiver's licence at his makeshift office on Main Street in Beacon, New York. (courtesy)
September 21, 2015, 2:55 pm
Just in time for Yom Kippur, Israeli-American artist issues ‘forgiver’s licenses’
Making fun of bureaucracy while offering self-reflection, Ori Alon offers joy permits and apology certificates ahead of the High Holidays
By Gregory Gutterman Scruggs
AJ Edelman
August 13, 2015, 3:17 pm
Will the ‘Hebrew Hammer’ achieve his 2018 Winter Olympics dream?
‘The first time I went down the track, it was like a drug,’ says AJ Edelman, an Orthodox American who is shooting to represent Israel on the lightning-speed skeleton sled
By Gregory Gutterman Scruggs
'What do you think Katz's Deli would say about this?' asks El Cuchitril owner Juan Pablo Gorman at his Buenos Aires cafe. (courtesy)
January 17, 2015, 12:54 am
Deli delight turns foodie trend in Buenos Aires
Is the Argentine bagel boom a sign that Jewish culture has gone mainstream in South America? Not so fast
By Gregory Gutterman Scruggs
Beacon Sukkah Project (Greg Scruggs/The Times of Israel)
October 14, 2014, 8:57 pm
On Beacon, NY’s Main Street, a sukkah turns townhall
Even the mayor is holding office hours in the Beacon Sukkah Project, a blend of Jewish tradition and open-air democracy
By Gregory Gutterman Scruggs
The oldest synagogue in the Americas, Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue, located in Recife. (Ricardo André Frantz, CC-BY-SA, via wikipedia)
July 27, 2014, 9:30 pm
Brazil says recall of Israel ambassador a ‘friendly’ spat
Foreign Ministry spokesman says Brazil’s stinging defeat in the World Cup, not IDF operation in Gaza, is ‘disproportionate’
By Gregory Gutterman Scruggs
Israeli flag on street: Rabbi Pessach Kauffman of São Paulo and his friend Fabio Steinecke pose outside of Rio's Maracanã Stadium before the France vs. Ecuador game on June 25, 2014. (courtesy: Pessach Kauffman)
July 4, 2014, 1:55 pm
Brazilian Jewry’s World Cup soccer Shabbos goyim
Security guards, cooks, and other staff update Brazil’s observant community during tortuous Sabbath national team games
By Gregory Gutterman Scruggs
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