7 Anti-Zionist Jewish artists pull out of California Jewish museum’s exhibit to protest Israel The Contemporary Jewish Museum will have empty space where the works, which the artists were surprised to see accepted, would have gone.
Jewish tradition sees eclipses as bad omens. Many American Jews are seeking totality anyway. Some synagogues and JCCs are hosting eclipse viewing parties, and rabbis have issued opinions on the right blessings to say (or not say).
Guernica editor who published Israeli writer’s coexistence essay resigns, saying she disagreed with retraction “The magazine stands by its retraction of the work; I do not,” Jina Moore wrote in a blog post a month after Joanna Chen’s essay first appeared.
Alex Edelman’s ‘Just For Us’ premieres on HBO and Max, with Jewish identity and antisemitism again in the spotlight
Elliot Gould, Joaquin Phoenix, Ilana Glazer, 150+ Jewish creatives sign open letter backing Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars speech
On the Lower East Side, a corporate ‘fixer’ honors his Jewish roots with a unique, NYC-centric bookstore