By ARIELLE KAPLAN This story originally appeared on Kveller. In the ultimate COVID-19 silver lining, the Broadway smash “Hamilton“ will soon be available to stream from the comfort of your quarantine couch. Huzzah! Originally set to hit theaters on in October 2021, it was an incredible coup by Disney+ to snag rights to Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award-winning musical. Luckily for […]

By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ NEW YORK CITY (JTA) – Recently, thousands of Jews in Israel and beyond responded to a plea for help in identifying a couple pictured in a yellowing photograph from 1955. “Everyone, I need help. I found this picture on a Tel Aviv street,” Ariel Plavnik, a 43-year-old tourism salesperson from Kfar Saba, Israel, wrote in Hebrew and […]

New series with celebrity seniors sharing stories, wisdom, and a few laughs while they navigate life under quarantine. SAN FRANCISCO – Comedic legend Carl Reiner offers the wit, wisdom and candor to help audiences navigate life under quarantine in the latest episode of the new digital series, Dispatches from Quarantine. The episode featuring Reiner premiered this week at Silver Screen Studios and on You Tube. Dispatches from […]

By RON KAMPEAS WASHINGTON (JTA) – Search “Israel” in the new book that President Donald Trump doesn’t want you to read and you’ll find several nuggets about the country’s role in recent policy discussions. John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser, plays a pivotal role in all of them. That should be no surprise given that “The Room Where It […]

By PHILISSA CRAMER NEW YORK CITY (JTA) – Astute viewers could find plenty of signs during the recent “Jeopardy!” Teachers Tournament that one leading contestant had some Jewish bona fides. There was the fact that Meggie Kwait teaches at Beit Rabban Day School, a Jewish school on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. There was her covered hair, rare among game-show contestants […]

By LAURA PAULL (J. The Jewish News of Northern California) – Any person who follows the news knows that anti-Semitism is on the rise around the world. As it has spread, so has our insight that this is a hatred with many faces, a many-headed monster fed by myths about Jews that will not die. Its more violent manifestations — […]

By BEN SALES NEW YORK CITY (JTA) – On Monday, there’s a Jewish space that hosts two Torah classes and the taping of a podcast. On Wednesday, the space offers a Jewish TV show for kids and a discussion of Jewish history. On Friday night and again on Saturday morning, it hosts several prayer services simultaneously — some experimental, some […]

(JNS) – The Jewish Chronicle and Jewish News in the United Kingdom have announced that they will fold after their parent company has become financially insolvent as a result of both the state of print newspapers, coupled with the coronavirus pandemic, which negatively impacted sales and revenue. The staff at both outlets, which merged in February in an effort to keep British Jewish […]

The scale of the crisis facing the journalism industry requires a radical and dramatic response: a massive public investment in local news. By Travis Waldron The Huffington Post – Three years ago, Matt DeRienzo surveyed America’s journalism landscape and issued a dire warning that most reporters didn’t want or need to hear. “The last recession was brutal for newspapers and […]

By JACKSON RICHMAN (JNS) – A recent webinar on the video conferencing platform Zoom about anti-Semitism, featuring Ellie Cohanim, U.S. Deputy Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism, was disrupted by a white supremacist and hacker—an example of what the Anti-Defamation League has called “Zoombombing.” The Greater Boston chapter of NCSY, a Jewish youth group, hosted the hour-long webinar on […]