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Jewish comedian Alex Edelman speaks to seniors at Inspir Jewish Living about his solo Broadway show 'Just for Us.' (Hundred Stories PR via JTA)

Alex Edelman, the summer’s hottest comedian, finds tough Jewish crowd at senior home

Although residents of NYC’s Inspir Carnegie Hill mostly liked the performer’s solo Broadway show ‘Just for Us,’ they were less impressed when he showed up at the facility in person

PR firm says it may tap US Jews to boost image of UAE oil boss ahead of climate meet

By Sue Surkes

A Jewish journalist’s experience covering the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting

By Ron Kampeas

Italian Jewish leader says new $67 million Holocaust reparations fund ‘a mockery’

By Giovanni Vigna

Proud Boys leader Henry 'Enrique' Tarrio during a rally in Portland, Oregon, September 26, 2020. (Allison Dinner/AP)

August 18, 2023, 6:52 am

US seeking 33-year sentence for ex-Proud Boys leader convicted of January 6 sedition

Prosecutors argue for so-called terrorism enhancement to extend Enrique Tarrio’s prison term, asking for almost double longest punishment handed down over Capitol riot so far

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER

August 17, 2023, 9:04 pm

Alex Edelman, the summer’s hottest comedian, finds tough Jewish crowd at senior home

Although residents of NYC’s Inspir Carnegie Hill mostly liked the performer’s solo Broadway show ‘Just for Us,’ they were less impressed when he showed up at the facility in person

By julia GERGELY

Christian students enrolled in the master's program for Jewish studies at Yeshiva University read a piece of text from the book of Shemot, or Exodus, while on a tour of the campus guided by Jewish educators. (Courtesy Yeshiva University via JTA)

August 17, 2023, 3:35 am

Yeshiva University launches master’s program for Christian students

The 2-year track at the Modern Orthodox flagship is being called an ‘experiment,’ but what’s certain is that it reflects a growing Evangelical interest in Jewish practices

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Windows at the Foundation for Memorial Sites in Lower Saxony, in the town of Celle, Germany, were found vandalized, Aug. 15, 2023. (Foundation for Memorial Sites in Lower Saxony)

August 17, 2023, 2:58 am

Office that manages Holocaust memorial sites in Germany has windows shattered

Police looking for witnesses of vandalism at Foundation for Memorial Sites in Lower Saxony, which oversees memorials at Bergen-Belsen and Wolfenbüttel Prison

By Toby Axelrod

US actor Bradley Cooper arrives for the 2022 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2022, in New York. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP)

August 17, 2023, 2:10 am

Leonard Bernstein’s family defends Bradley Cooper amid ‘Jewface’ storm

Children of late composer say they’re ‘perfectly fine’ with Hollywood star using a prosthetic nose to play their father, adding that it ‘amplifies his resemblance’

By AFP

Bradley Cooper plays Jewish composer Leonard Bernstein in the 2023 biopic "Maestro." (YouTube screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

August 16, 2023, 12:44 pm

Bradley Cooper under fire for ‘Jewface’ in Leonard Bernstein biopic

Actor uses prosthetic nose in upcoming film, which one social media user says ‘looks like Nazi propaganda’

By Michael Horovitz and JTA

Illustrative: A woman enters a building where stumbling stones, engraved with names of Jews killed by the Nazis, are seen in front of the entrance, in Rome's Ghetto Jewish neighborhood, January 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

August 16, 2023, 5:05 am

Italian Jewish leader says new $67 million Holocaust reparations fund ‘a mockery’

To solve a diplomatic dispute with Germany over civil suits for Nazi crimes, Italy decides to pony up – but Jewish community members say the government is trying not to pay out

By Giovanni Vigna

COP28 UAE President Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber attends a joint press conference on the second day of the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin, Germany, on May 3, 2023. (John MacDougall/Pool Photo via AP, File)

August 16, 2023, 2:55 am

PR firm says it may tap US Jews to boost image of UAE oil boss ahead of climate meet

Contract signed by former ADL-Israel head Zev Furst and Abu Dhabi’s Masdar proposes mobilizing ties to ‘US Jewish Establishment’ to improve optics in run-up to UN’s COP28 summit

By Sue Surkes

Wreaths placed at the memorial for the homosexual victims of the Nazis on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Berlin, Germany, January 27, 2023. (Markus Schreiber/AP)

August 15, 2023, 3:47 pm

Monument to gay victims of Nazis vandalized in Berlin

Man defaces memorial with homophobic flyers, attempts to set it on fire before fleeing; memorial to Jews deported from city’s Grunewald railway station also hit by arson attack

By AFP

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August 15, 2023, 7:49 am

Former director of Israel Museum to lead Jewish Museum in New York

James Snyder not expected to make major curatorial changes, though institution may begin exploring exhibitions on antisemitism

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A screenshot from livestreamed Shabbat services hosted by Temple Beth Tikvah, a Reform congregation in Fullerton, on August 12, 2023. (Facebook screen grab, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law

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2 US shuls evacuated during Shabbat services amid wave of bomb threats for 4th week

ADL says instigators select targets based on availability of livestreamed prayer services, driven by desire to watch congregations react to threats in real time

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Pittsburgh Jewish Federation CEO Jeff Finkelstein speaks to the press after a jury find the gunman who shot 11 Jewish worshipers guilty of federal crimes. The writer kneels at lower left, in Pittsburgh, June 16, 2023. (Alexandra Wimley/Pittsburgh Union Progress via Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle via JTA)

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Veteran JTA reporter tells of his conflicted, emotionally tolling odyssey, from day the 2018 Tree of Life massacre took 11 lives through recent conclusion of the murderer’s trial

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