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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 425

Lisa Keys

Rodeph Sholom synagogue, New York (Jim.henderson / Wikipedia)
May 5, 2024, 10:57 pm
Police investigate series of at least 4 bomb threats at New York City synagogues
One community evacuated, building cleared; emailed threats deemed not credible by authorities; Brooklyn Museum also gets message threatening to blow up nearby subway station
By Lisa Keys
The Benhamou family of Paris conducts a Passover Seder in a scene from Broadway's "Prayer for the French Republic," which was nominated for three 2024 Tony Awards. (Jeremy Daniel via JTA)
May 2, 2024, 10:23 am
Two shows on antisemitism sweep 2024 Tony nominations
Revival of ‘Cabaret,’ about Weimar-era Berlin club, gets 9 nominations, while ‘Prayer for the French Republic,’ a 3-hour drama on antisemitism in France in 2016, snags 3
By Lisa Keys
Rachel Bloom arrives at the world premiere of 'Your Place Or Mine,' Feb. 2, 2023, at Regency Village Theatre in Los Angeles. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
July 26, 2023, 2:41 pm
Rachel Bloom to debut her one-woman musical comedy off-Broadway
Creator and star of ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ suggests that her show, ‘Death, Let Me Do My Show,’ set to run in the fall, will explore the ‘tumultuous events’ of her personal life
By Lisa Keys
Codex Sassoon, the world’s oldest Hebrew Bible. (Courtesy of Sotheby's via JTA)
May 6, 2023, 5:02 pm
Oldest near-complete Hebrew Bible manuscript to be displayed in NYC
Codex Sassoon, valued at $30-$50 million, can be viewed by appointment at Sotheby’s auction house ahead of its sale
By Lisa Keys
FILE - Singer and activist Harry Belafonte speaks during a memorial tribute concert for folk icon and civil rights activist Pete Seeger in New York on July 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, file)
April 26, 2023, 1:12 am
Harry Belafonte, who popularized ‘Hava Nagila’ in the US, dies at 96
Singer and civil rights activist once quipped he was ‘the most popular Jew in America’ due to his rendition of the Hebrew classic
By Lisa Keys
Rabbi Alexander D. Goode and a view of the Dorchester, which was requisitioned by the US Army during World War II. The ship was sunk by a German torpedo on February 3, 1943. (Courtesy Mark Auerbach via JTA)
February 8, 2023, 10:39 am
Honoring a US rabbi who went down with his torpedoed warship 80 years ago this month
Mark Auerbach works to preserve the memory of his relative Alexander Goode, an army chaplain who gave away his lifejacket and calmed panicked soldiers after a German U-boat attack
By Lisa Keys
The cold open from the March 17, 1984 episode of 'Saturday Night Live' joking about Purim and St. Patrick's Day. (Screenshot)
March 17, 2022, 2:12 pm
When ‘Saturday Night Live’ celebrated Purim and St. Patrick’s Day
This year, as Jewish and Irish people celebrate together, we remember the last time the two booze-centric holidays collided, and the 1984 SNL skit that was the toast of the town
By Lisa Keys
A door handle in the shape of pi is seen at the National Museum of Mathematics in New York, December 17, 2012. The museum is aimed at kids aged 8 to 13, and curators have given the place a playground feel. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
March 16, 2022, 1:44 pm
NY exhibit of geometric drawings by Jewish inventor adds it all up
Show of 37 pieces by 95-year-old artist, author, Holocaust survivor and toy and puzzle creator Ivan Moscovich at MoMath brings new audience to Shoah history
By Lisa Keys
Miriam, a new Israeli restaurant on the Upper West Side, seen here in a photograph shared by Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, was vandalized with antisemitic graffiti, Feb. 17, 2022. (Twitter via JTA)
February 18, 2022, 6:39 am
‘F*ck’ Jews’ daubed outside Israeli restaurant in NYC
Local politicians condemn antisemitic vandalism and call on community to support ‘Miriam,’ a newly opened Upper West Side eatery
By Lisa Keys
The NYPD is seeking info on a man, seen above in a surveillance video, suspected of assaulting a Jewish man in Crown Heights on January 22, 2022. (NYPD Twitter/JTA)
January 27, 2022, 9:23 am
ADL offers $5,000 reward for information on antisemitic attack in Crown Heights
NYPD seeks to identify suspect who punched Hasidic man in the face; Anti-Defamation League New York director warns such incidents are becoming normalized
By Lisa Keys
A woman who allegedly spit on Jewish children in New York seen in security camera footage from January 14, 2022. (Screenshot/NYPD)
January 22, 2022, 5:38 am
NYPD nabs woman who allegedly told Jewish kids: ‘Hitler should have killed you all’
Christina Darling faces hate crime charge for spitting at children outside Brooklyn synagogue, threatening to kill them
By Lisa Keys
Yeshiva University's Mendel Gottesman Library. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
December 7, 2021, 6:13 am
As its profile rises, Yeshiva University launches campaign to raise $613 million
Flagship Modern Orthodox university is rising in school, and basketball, rankings, but facing challenges over its handling of past sexual abuse allegations
By Lisa Keys
A screenshot from Jewish a capella group Six13's new video 'West Side Chanukah Story.' (Screenshot/ via JTA)
December 1, 2021, 1:31 am
‘West Side Story’ Hanukkah parody comes just in time for reboot
Timed to coincide with Steven Spielberg’s remake, Jewish a capella group Six13’s medley plays on the hits from Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim’s iconic 1957 Broadway musical
By Lisa Keys
Ezra Furman performs in 2018. (Paul Hudson/Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.0)
April 23, 2021, 5:35 am
Jewish rocker Ezra Furman announces she’s a woman — and a mom
Popular indie musician, who provided much of the soundtrack for the Netflix hit ‘Sex Education,’ comes out as a trans woman in an Instagram post
By Lisa Keys
Illustration: Kveller, via JTA
July 13, 2020, 3:10 am
The Jewish real estate developer who stood up to racist US housing policies
Joseph Eichler was one of the biggest names in California’s suburban development; he used his clout to bring qualified minority home buyers to neighborhoods where they were shunned
By Lisa Keys
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