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Rabbi Michael Wolk stands in his rabbi-character costume outside the production trailers for “Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret,” which filmed in his synagogue, Temple Israel of Charlotte, North Carolina.

Meet the real-life rabbi in the synagogue scene of ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’

Rabbi Michael Wolk was nervous when he stepped foot onto his synagogue’s bimah in May 2021 – but not because his congregation was returning to in-person prayer after a pandemic … more

JACKIE HAJDENBERG | 5/4/23

Jewish groups mobilize to fight climate change

PROVIDENCE – On Feb. 7, some 40 people gathered to learn about the Jewish climate movement’s efforts to fight climate change both locally and nationally. Jakir Manela, CEO of the … more

FRAN OSTENDORF | 2/16/23

What American Jews fight about when they fight about Israel

(JTA) – Eric Alterman, born in 1960, says the view of Israel he absorbed growing up in a Jewish family in suburban Scarsdale, New York, was decidedly … more

ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL | 2/3/23

Vandals again desecrate Thessaloniki Holocaust memorial

(JTA) – For at least the fourth time since it was installed in 2014, vandals desecrated a Holocaust memorial in Thessaloniki, the Greek city that once boasted a Jewish plurality. A photo … more

RON KAMPEAS | 1/6/23

Passengers get payout

(JTA) – Nearly seven months after they were denied boarding in Frankfurt, a group of more than 100 Hasidic Lufthansa passengers are getting paid for their troubles. The airline is paying … more

12/2/22

Meet the Jewish founder of the world’s only bobblehead museum, and his Hanukkah bobbles

With a Jewish co-founder, it was just a matter of time before the world’s only bobblehead museum unveiled Hanukkah bobbles. The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum, in Milwaukee, was … more

JACOB GURVIS | 12/2/22

Loan company SoFi pulls ad after criticism that it features an antisemitic stereotype

(JTA) – Rhonda Moore was alarmed when she saw the ad for a student-loan refinancing company that featured what she believed was a stereotypical dishonest Jewish banker. In the ad, … more

ANDREW LAPIN | 12/1/22

Patriots owner funds NFL TV ad about standing up ‘against Jewish hate’

(JTA) – Robert Kraft, the New England Patriots owner who donates heavily to Jewish causes, funded an advertisement that ran during Sunday’s NFL matchup between the … more

JACOB GURVIS | 11/4/22

Adidas and its checkered past

(JTA) – As rap star Kanye West continually refuses to back down from his antisemitic rants, some of the many institutions he has ties with have begun to jump ship. The fashion tastemakers Balenciaga and Vogue have announced they will no longer be working with him. Hollywood talent giant CAA has dropped him, and a planned documentary about him has been scrapped. more

ANDREW LAPIN | 10/25/22

Trying to understand Kanye West’s latest antisemitic remarks? Here’s a breakdown

(JTA) – It started with a shirt and ended in a conflagration over antisemitism and Republican politics. Such is the extended news cycle over multiple antisemitic comments last week by Kanye West, the artist and provocateur who prefers to go by Ye. On Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show, Instagram and Twitter, West made a string of comments reflecting a range of antisemitic tropes and conspiracy theories. more

BY PHILISSA CRAMER and RON KAMPEAS | 10/20/22