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A new podcast chronicles the little-known stories of boxers from the Holocaust era

“[T]hese individuals were amazing boxers,” said 36-year-old Jonathan Bonder, the voice of “Holocaust Histories.” “Once the Holocaust comes, it kind of gets forgotten.”

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A new podcast chronicles the little-known stories of boxers from the Holocaust era

Humans of New York featured this onetime rabbinical student — and readers have donated $1.2M to his passion project

CULTURE

Netflix releases Israeli period drama ‘Beauty Queen of Jerusalem’

After 46 years in a Chelsea loft, a renowned Judaica artist says goodbye to NYC

Broadway’s new ‘Evan Hansen’ is an Asian-American Jew

Mayor Adams to meet with 55 women rabbis who are concerned he’s only hearing from Orthodox Jews

Amar’e Stoudemire clarifies why he’s leaving his Brooklyn Nets job: Shabbat observance issues

GLOBAL

Boris Johnson vows to solve Northern Ireland’s Brexit-related kosher food shortages

Chad restores full diplomatic relations with Israel

Punta del Este, Uruguay, is one of South America’s ritziest resort cities. Its Jewish population has doubled during the pandemic.

‘Plunder,’ Menachem Kaiser’s memoir about reclaiming his family’s Polish home, wins Sami Rohr prize

After 2-year delay, Shuly Rubin Schwartz inaugurated as JTS’ first woman chancellor

Sacha Baron Cohen to helm ‘Chelm,’ an HBO cartoon about the shtetl of fools

NYC’s Celebrate Israel Parade returns with a push for wider community involvement

A movie about kidnapped Italian Jew Edgardo Mortara is moving forward without Steven Spielberg

Ben Platt to play Jewish lynching victim Leo Frank in a revival of Broadway musical ‘Parade’

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