Category: Jewish
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‘Nobody Wants This’ renewed for a second season on Netflix — with more Jews on board
A second season of “Nobody Wants This” is coming, whether Jews want it or not. The Netflix series, about an interfaith relationship between a rabbi (Adam Brody) and a non-Jewish, agnostic podcaster (Kristen Bell), has proven… Continue Reading
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Goldsmiths students urged to hail ‘martyrs of Gaza and Beirut’ at latest pro-Palestine demo
Goldsmiths University students were urged to join in chants of “From Gaza to Beirut all our martyrs we salute” as hardline anti-Israel activists staged their latest “walkout” at the south-east London institution. Jewish News witnessed… Continue Reading
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In this Jewish season of forgiveness, I’m asking for permission
This article initially appeared in My Jewish Learning’s Shabbat newsletter Recharge. To sign up to receive Recharge each week in your inbox, click here. It has been a hard year. So hard, it can feel like all our rituals are… Continue Reading
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In 2013, I started AtoneNet, a space for public ritual confession. Here’s why I’m shutting it down.
Back in the summer of 2013, I had this idea: What if the internet could make Jewish prayer better? Specifically: What if a website could serve as place for public ritual confession? Similar websites, of course, already existed. Continue Reading
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‘Failed to meet our editorial standards’: Guardian deletes online review criticising ‘demonisation’ of Hamas
The Guardian has removed an online review of a documentary about the 7 October attacks criticising its negative portrayal of Hamas. In a statement to Jewish News, a spokesperson for the news group said: “The article did not meet our editorial… Continue Reading
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Anger as notorious anti-Israel director made a patron of top TV documentary body
A charitable organisation set up to honour the most talented people in the television documentary world is facing calls to review its decision to make a film director known for his extreme criticism of Israel a patron. On Wednesday the Grierson… Continue Reading
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‘Shana To-van’! Specially wrapped Tesco lorry wishes community: ‘Happy Jewish New Year’
A specially decorated lorry operated by the UK’s largest supermarket chain is travelling across the UK wishing the Jewish community a ‘Happy Jewish New Year’. Booker, a wholesaler branch of Tesco subsidiary and Britain’s biggest food… Continue Reading
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Dignitaries and bereaved families sign 7 October Book of Reflection
Senior government officials, ambassadors, bereaved families and UK representatives have signed a Book of Reflection commemorating the first anniversary of the 7 October Hamas atrocities across Israel. The Israeli Embassy in the UK hosted an… Continue Reading
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Fordham University, one of NYC’s largest Catholic universities, hires its first Jewish chaplain
To get to Rabbi Katja Vehlow’s office, one must pass a stately church with a turret and belfry outside the university entrance. Nearby, in a campus courtyard, a path wends its way past a 15-foot, 2,400-pound sculpture of St…. Continue Reading
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Guardian review of 7 October documentary criticises negative portrayal of Hamas
A Guardian review of a documentary on the 7 October attacks has criticised the negative portrayal of Hamas. In his review of Channel 4’s One Day in October‘, which depicts the massacre at Kibbutz Be’eri using CCTV footage, journalist… Continue Reading