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From the Pages: August 22, 2024
In the Beginning: 1854 Each week The American Israelite will print an item from the […]
Jews in the News: Three Good Films — One May be a Jewish Classic
By Nate Bloom Contributing Columnist Three good films open in theaters this week. If you […]
Bad Joke of the Week: The Israeli Skier
In a slalom skiing race, the skier must pass through about twenty “gates” as rapidly […]
Today in Israeli History: August 23 – August 29
August 23, 1903 — Herzl’s Last Zionist Congress Opens The Sixth Zionist Congress, the last […]
Rhino’s Kosher Soft Serve has deep roots in Americana
Soft serve ice cream, yogurt, and sorbet are the products of accident, innovation, and ethnic […]
Jason Schwartzman plays a small-town cantor with a spiritual crisis in ‘Between the Temples’
Courtesy of JTA.Robert Smigel, left, portrays a rabbi and Jason Schwartzman is a cantor in […]
A ‘Bachelorette’ contestant this season is the great-great-grandson of the last chief rabbi of Kovno
Courtesy of JTA. Photo credit: Disney/John Fleenor‘Bachelorette’ Jenn Tran gives a rose to Jewish contestant […]
France suspends Olympic runner for anti-Israel posts, including one wishing the ‘most terrible and horrible degree of hell’ for Zionists
Courtesy of JTA. Photo credit: Cameron Spencer/Getty ImagesMuhammad Abdallah Kounta during the 4 x 400-meter […]
Queenie Hallegua, second-to-last Jewish resident of historic Indian Jewish community, dies at 89
Courtesy of JTA. Photo credit: Rabbi Jonathan Goldschmidt via FacebookQueenie Hallegua was the warden and […]