Articles from the April 5, 2024 edition
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School district will let students opt out of Holocaust lesson
(JTA) – A school district in suburban Virginia is drawing backlash for announcing that middle school students could opt out of a talk by a Holocaust survivor on Monday. Critics of the school connected the announcement with widespread reports of s...
Obituary - RONNA JO HOCHFELDER
Mrs. Ronna Jo Hochfelder, 76, of Ocoee, Florida passed away Saturday, March 16, 2024, at Health Central Park Health & Rehab Center, Winter Garden, Florida following a brief illness. Mrs. Hochfelder was born Dec. 13, 1947, in Joliet, Illinois to the...
Obituary - DALIA PELLI
Mrs. Dalia Pelli, 84, passed away Friday evening at her Winter Park, Florida home following a long illness which she bravely battled. Dalia was born March 3,1940, in Tel Aviv, Israel to the late...
Hulu's 'We Were the Lucky Ones' uncovers a Jewish family's buried past under the Nazis
(JTA) — Georgia Hunter was 15 when she discovered that her grandfather was Jewish. The revelation took place a year after his death, while Hunter was interviewing her grandmother for a school project. “A high school English teacher said, ‘Go out a...
Sen. Jeff Merkley invokes Easter to condemn 'Netanyahu's indiscriminate bombing of Gaza,' drawing condemnation
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A range of Jewish and pro-Israel figures, including Israel’s antisemitism envoy, accused Sen. Jeff Merkley of advancing a “blood libel” for linking Easter to what he called Israel’s “indiscriminate bombing” of Gaza. Merkley, an O...
Rogan: 'You went through the Holocaust and now you're willing to do it?'
(JNS) — Addressing video footage on social media purporting to show Palestinians being killed by Israeli bombs, Joe Rogan told the millions who listen to his podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience” on Tuesday that Israel was committing genocide. “If y...
Weekly roundup of world briefs
Ra’am Party head pushing US to recognize Palestinian state (JNS) — Mansour Abbas, chairman of Israel’s Ra’am Party, said in a recent interview that he has been advocating for the unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state in meetings with U.S. go...
Police in Newton, Massachusetts, investigating string of vandalism targeting pro-Israel homes as hate crimes
(JTA) – Authorities in Newton, Massachusetts, said they are investigating a string of seven recent instances of vandalism targeting homes with pro-Israel signs as individual hate crimes. In one incident this week, more than 100 posters displaying Isr...
Ben Shapiro's split with Candace Owens reflects how Israel and antisemitism are also dividing the right
By Andrew Lapin (JTA) – For years, Candance Owens and Ben Shapiro traveled parallel paths. Both are millennial right-wing culture warriors with social media followings in the millions. And both depart from broader communities that have h...
NFL player clarifies remark about Jews
(JNS) - Ahmad ("Sauce") Gardner, an American football cornerback for the New York Jets, has clarified that he didn't mean to suggest any antisemitic conspiracies in comments he made on a livestream br...
