World News
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Diary of a Jewish ghetto refugee, written in a pigsty
אין דער װעלט פֿון ייִדיש איז בערל כּהנס נאָמען גוט באַקאַנט צוליב זײַנע היסטאָרישע און ביבליאָגראַפֿישע שטודיעס, צװישן זײ — דער צוגאָב־באַנד צו דעם „לעקסיקאָן פֿון דער נײַער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור“ און „ייִדישע שטעט, שטעטלעך און דאָרפֿישע ייִשובים אין ליטע ביז 1918“. אָבער זײַן ערשט בוך איז געװען דער חורבן־טאָגבוך „אַ ייִד אין װאַלד“, װאָס איז…
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Dr. Bronner’s soap mixes Israeli and Palestinian olive oil — and dodges product boycotts
When members of Brooklyn’s Park Slope Food Coop’s voted earlier this year to boycott Israeli products, among the items to instantly disappear from shelves was bottled olive oil made by Sindyanna of Galilee, an Arab-Jewish nonprofit cooperative. But that same olive oil is still sold at the coop — and at retailers around the world.…
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Seeking people to answer questions for Yiddish Family Feud game
דעם זומער וועט מען אויף דער ייִדיש־וואָך פֿון יוגנטרוף — אַ זיבן־טאָגיקער זומער־לאַגער פֿאַר ייִדיש־רעדער אין קאָפּייק, ניו־יאָרק — ממשיך זײַן אַ טראַדיציע: מע וועט שפּילן אַ ייִדישן נוסח פֿונעם פּאָפּולערן טעלעוויזיע־שפּיל, „פֿעמילי פֿיוד“ (משפּחה־מחלוקת, בלע״ז). אינעם שפּיל, וואָס מע רופֿט אויף דער ייִדיש־וואָך לויט אַ מער ייִדישלעכן נאָמען, „וואָס זאָגט עמך?‟, פּרוּוון די שפּילער…
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On Iran war, AI chatbots give antisemitic answers in Farsi
Mostafa, an Iranian-born activist living in the U.S., uses ChatGPT in Farsi to help him polish his posts about the Iran War. He says more often than not, the chatbot makes changes to his writing that go far beyond syntax. “I just ask ChatGPT to polish my work grammatically,” said the activist who asked that…
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Jewish villains out to destroy Jesus are a staple of Ukrainian Catholic church pageants in the U.S. The Vatican has remained silent.
At a pizza restaurant in Baltimore last year, a church youth group performed a Ukrainian Christmas pageant that promised patrons “carols, jokes and well wishes for a great year ahead.” What the audience received was a character called Moshko, a Jewish merchant. Moshko was dressed in black with long sideburns — a villain disrupting the…
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Nominee for Wisconsin governor appeared with podcast host who defended ‘Camp Auschwitz’ t-shirt
Rep. Tom Tiffany, Wisconsin’s Republican nominee for governor, is facing heat for appearing on a podcast hosted by an online personality with a history of antisemitic remarks and jokes about Adolf Hitler. “The Quartering” podcast host Jeremy Hambly has said Adolf Hitler had “actually done some good things,” joked with guests about the Holocaust by…
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Trump rejects Mamdani vow to arrest Netanyahu in NYC
(JTA) — Mayor Zohran Mamdani says he’s still thinking about whether he should arrest Benjamin Netanyahu the next time the Israeli prime minister is in New York City. Not gonna happen, President Donald Trump stepped in on Monday to say. “Benjamin Netanyahu will not be arrested, in any way, shape, or form, while in the…
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Where does Andy Burnham, the new British prime minister, stand on Israel and antisemitism?
(JTA) — Andy Burnham officially became Britain’s new Labour prime minister on Monday, replacing Keir Starmer who resigned following the party’s disastrous showing in local elections in May. Starmer left behind a mixed record on antisemitism. He purged the party of its image as hostile to Jews under former party leader Jeremy Corbyn. But at…
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J Street defends co-sponsoring College Democrats convention featuring Hasan Piker
(JTA) — J Street is defending its decision to co-sponsor the College Democrats of America convention after critics accused the liberal pro-Israel group of endorsing the anti-Zionist streamer Hasan Piker, who was a featured speaker at the event. In a statement posted Monday, J Street said its campus arm, J Street U, spent “a couple…
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As Israel urged caution, these Syrian Jews lobbied the U.S. to lift sanctions on Syria
(JTA) — “Mouaz, what do you think, should I go?” The day after Henry Hamra learned that Islamist rebels had ousted Bashar Assad from power — ending more than six decades of Ba’athist rule over Syria — he was on the phone with his friend Mouaz Moustafa, the executive director of the Syrian Emergency Task…
