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Acclaimed Sundance film ‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’ explores love and awkwardness on the bar mitzvah circuit

Non-Jewish director Cooper Raiff stars as a non-Jewish bar and bat mitzvah entertainer in the indie flick, which Apple TV+ showered with a $15 million distribution deal.

Police arrest suspect caught on camera beating Orthodox Jews in London

In a separate incident, a 12-year-old Italian boy said he was kicked and hit with antisemitic insults by other teenagers.

‘Camp Auschwitz’ man at Jan. 6 insurrection pleads guilty to misdemeanor

The front of his sweatshirt read “Camp Auschwitz,” and the back read “Staff.”

Remembrance

Nate Geller, 1958-2022: 70 Faces Media mourns a beloved teammate

Culture

‘And Just Like That,’ a beleaguered series makes fans even angrier with a Holocaust joke

Food

These modern-day Jewish spice merchants want to revolutionize the spice industry

A man and a woman eating outdoors at a restaurant

Culture

Wallace Shawn still works with Woody Allen and writes about Israel. He’s used to ‘painful conversations.’

Politics

Biden and Harris meet with Holocaust survivors to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day

United States

Barnes & Noble removes ‘The Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ from its site

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