US & Canada
ADL Blasts Anti-Israel Author Walker: She is ‘Unabashedly Infected With Anti-Semitism’
The Anti-Defamation League slammed Tuesday a new book from anti-Israel advocate Alice Walker, saying she “has taken her extreme and hostile views to a shocking new level.” According to a statement from the organization, Walker’s “The Cushion in the Road” (The New Press, 2013) devotes 80 pages to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, often making comparisons between Israel and...
Most Read In US & Canada
Satmars Remove Embarrassing Anti-Army Poster After it Appears to Promote IDF Enlistment (PHOTO)
USA Today Publishes BDS Press Release Almost Word for Word, Accuses Israel of ‘Large-Scale Abuses of Palestinian Rights’
Anti-Semitism Dismissed as Motive Despite Three Consecutive Firebombings of Jewish Targets in Montreal
ADL Blasts Anti-Israel Author Walker: She is ‘Unabashedly Infected With Anti-Semitism’
Satmars Remove Embarrassing Anti-Army Poster After it Appears to Promote IDF Enlistment (PHOTO)USA Today Publishes BDS Press Release Almost Word for Word, Accuses Israel of ‘Large-Scale Abuses of Palestinian Rights’Anti-Semitism Dismissed as Motive Despite Three Consecutive Firebombings of Jewish Targets in MontrealADL Blasts Anti-Israel Author Walker: She is ‘Unabashedly Infected With Anti-Semitism’
June 4, 2013 11:29 am
New Jersey Father Fighting for Child Visitation Rights Appears in Court in Nazi Garb
A New Jersey dad fighting for the right to visit his youngest son didn’t help his cause...
June 3, 2013 4:01 pm
Senator Frank Lautenberg Remembered by Jewish Groups
JNS.org - Longtime New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg, who died Monday at 89 from complications...
June 3, 2013 10:01 am
Senator Frank Lautenberg, Patron of Jewish Causes, Dies at 89
Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) died this morning of viral pneumonia at age 89, NorthJersey.com...
June 2, 2013 9:42 pm
Israel Handily Defeats Honduras 2-0 in New York Friendly
Israel’s national soccer team handily defeated Honduras in a friendly match at New York’s...
May 31, 2013 7:10 pm
Brooklyn Teens Subject of Hate Crime Investigation for Harassing 6-Year-Old Jewish Boy
The NYPD Hate Crime Task Force is investigating allegations that three teenagers perpetrated...
May 31, 2013 4:34 pm
TIAA-CREF Decision Sets Precedent to Block BDS Motions – Legal Analysts
A decision by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to allow a major financial services...
May 30, 2013 5:23 pm
JC Penney Scrambles to Defuse Social Media Uproar Over ‘Hitler Tea Kettle’
Embattled US retailer JC Penney, which has been struggling from market share losses and last...
May 30, 2013 3:27 pm
Pension Fund TIAA-CREF Declines to Vote for Israel Boycott
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement suffered a major defeat on Thursday when Teachers...
May 30, 2013 1:20 pm
‘Wall of NYPD Blue’ to be Present at Israel Day Parade in NYC This Weekend
The Israel Day Parade is set for Sunday in New York and security will be tight, The New York...
May 30, 2013 1:01 pm
IRS May Have Targeted at Least Five Pro-Israel Nonprofits, Investigation Reveals
An investigation has revealed that some pro-Israel non-profit groups may have been overly...
May 29, 2013 6:23 pm
Alan Gross Lawsuit Against U.S. Government Dismissed
JNS.org - A lawsuit filed against the U.S. government in 2012 by Jewish-American contractor...
May 28, 2013 2:05 pm
‘Code of Jewish Ethics’ Volume Graces Table at Former Madoff Home
A house in Old Westbury on Long Island with a unique history has come on the market, and it’s...
More...
-
Personalities Sports
NBA Finals a Time to Remember Legendary Jewish Coach Red Auerbach
JNS.org - At the start of each nationally televised game of the 2013 NBA Finals between the San Antonio Spurs and the Miami Heat, ABChas aired a film-clip montage of basketball’s great players and coaches—a montage that includes Jewish coach Arnold “Red” Auerbach, the mastermind behind nine championship teams for the Boston Celtics. Red was one of four children of Marie and Hyman Auerbach. Hyman was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who left Belarus when he was 13. The couple owned a deli and [...]
Read more → -
Arts and Culture Jewish History
The Marx Brothers and Jewish Identity
JNS.org - The sons of Jewish immigrants from Germany and France, the Marx Brothers became zany masters of stage and screen who continue to captivate audiences. But in addition to providing comic relief, their films captured the drama of the entry of their marginalized religion into the U.S. Wayne Koestenbaum, author of the 2012 book The Anatomy of Harpo Marx, explains that the Marx Brothers’ Jewishness as a family “was evident, marked, thoroughly legible.” “Within a family already marked as Jewish within [...]
Read more → -
Arts and Culture Jewish Identity
SuperJew
For my shekels, the question of whether the comic book character Superman, is Jewish or not shouldn’t even be questioned. Born and named Kal-El by his father Jor-El, “El” is one of the ancient names for God used throughout the bible and found in great prophets such as Samue-el, Dani-el and angels Micha-el and Gavri-el and of course, Isra-el. As Simcha Weinstein in his entertaining book, “Up, Up And Oy Vey” points out, “Kal” is the root of several Hebrew [...]
Read more → -
Israel Sports
Formula 1 Road Show Thrills Jerusalem
JNS.org – Some 100,000 people attended Israel’s first-ever Formula 1 Road Show in Jerusalem on Thursday and Friday. For several hours, the controversies that normally characterize Jerusalem were put aside, and a diverse mosaic of Israelis watched up close as the motor-sport stars temporarily conquered the city. “It was an amazing experience, the most fast and furious thing I have seen,” spectator Masada Porat told Israel Hayom. “It was a rare, extreme event that explodes in your face.” Spectator Irena [...]
Read more → -
Book Reviews Jewish Identity
Klara’s Journey Casts Jews in Fast-Paced Adventure Through Russian History
JNS.org – “If you’re sick, move away. Have some consideration for others,” a red army soldier scolds a slow-moving old man selling train tickets. “No, fires back the old man, proud, haughty, not realizing it’s a new country, a Bolshevik country where force heads the list instead of civility,” reads the following line in Ben G. Frank’s new novel, Klara’s Journey, released June 1. Reminiscent of Boris Pasternak’s Dr. Zhivago—whose backdrop is also a train ride across the Russian frontier during the [...]
Read more → -
Personalities Theater
Nora Ephron, Famed Jewish Screenwriter, Remembered Through Tribeca Film Festival Prize
JNS.org – For filmmaker Meera Menon, no honor could have been more fitting than winning the inaugural award named after famed Jewish screenwriter and novelist Nora Ephron, the woman whose work inspired her. At the recent 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, Menon was named the first recipient of the $25,000 Nora Ephron Prize, given to a writer or director whose work embodies that of the late Ephron, who wrote the scripts for a number of hit films, including “When Harry Met [...]
Read more → -
Book Reviews Personalities
Book Review: ‘Jewish Jordan’ Memoir an Important Guide for Players and Coaches
JNS.org – Despite his friends’ and family’s doubts that a young Orthodox Jewish athlete could ever play college or professional basketball without compromising his religious values, between 1999 and 2009 the “Jewish Jordan” defied conventional wisdom and found his place on the court. In his new memoir, Jewish Jordan’s Triple Threat, Tamir Goodman describes his triumphs and disappointments in life, crediting his practice of Judaism for shaping his identity as an athlete and his understanding of basketball as a team sport. [...]
Read more → -
Blogs Sports
Omri Casspi, ‘Jewish Jordan’ Partner on Basketball Camps to Inspire Youths On and Off the Court
Tamir Goodman (left) and NBA forward Omri Casspi—pictured on the court of the United Center, home of the Chicago Bulls—together run basketball camps that seek to inspire youths on and off the court. Photo: Courtesy Tamir Goodman. JNS.org – Before last year, basketball camps for Jewish youths never had an instructor quite like Omri Casspi, a forward for the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) Cleveland Cavaliers and the first Israeli-born player in NBA history. Casspi is a de facto ambassador for [...]
Read more →
