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Elliott Gould attends the Los Angeles premiere of "Only Murders In The Building" Season 2 at DGA Theater Complex in Los Angeles on June 27, 2022. Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images.

Hollywood outlier: American actor Elliott Gould focuses the camera on real life

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It’s difficult to imagine a face like Elliott Gould’s becoming a matinee idol today. It is angular and brooding, with eyes that have carried a weight beyond their years and a voice that teetered...
2025 inductees to the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Credit: Courtesy of the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.

International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame reboots, despite 2025 delay

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On July 8, 2025, a new class featuring the likes of basketball's Amar’e Stoudemire, judoka Oren Smadja, Paralympian Moran Samuel, swimmers Sarah Poewe and Helen Plaschinski Farca de Finkler, sports commentator Chris Berman and...
Israeli soldiers at the site where a ballistic missile fired from Iran hit and caused damage in Petach Tikvah, June 18, 2025. Photo by Jonathan Shaul/Flash90.

Holocaust survivor among victims in Iran missile strike in Petach Tikvah

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Israeli authorities have identified Yvette Shmilovitz, a 95-year-old Holocaust survivor, as the fourth victim of Iran’s ballistic missile strike in Petach Tikvah last week. Eight people were killed and nearly 300 wounded by the June...
A screenshot of a video that the Mehr news agency said was of Marek Keufman taken in or af

German-Jewish cyclist held in Iran since 2024, Iran’s state media say

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A German citizen identified as Marek Kaufman, who is said to be Jewish, has been under arrest in Iran for over a year on suspicion of espionage, Iran’s state-run Mehr news agency acknowledged Saturday. Iranian authorities allege...
Israeli President Isaac Herzog seated between Sephardic Chief Rabbi David Yosef and Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Kalman Ber at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, June 10, 2025. Credit: Amos Ben-Gershom (GPO).

Israel’s chief rabbis to announce national fast day for hostages

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Israel's Sephardic Chief Rabbi David Yosef announced on Tuesday that a national day of fasting in prayer for the hostages in the Gaza Strip would be announced "in the coming days.” The announcement came in response to...
Prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz at the Einsatzgruppen Trial, which lasted from September 1947 until April 1948, in Nuremberg, Germany. Credit: U.S. Army/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum via Wikimedia Commons.

Florida post office renamed for Jewish lawyer who prosecuted Nazis

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Naming a post office in Delray Beach, Fla., after Benjamin Berell Ferencz, a Jewish lawyer who prosecuted Nazis during the Nuremberg trials, is an effort to “not only remember the man” but also to “reaffirm...
A pro-Palestinian march in Minneapolis on Nov. 4, 2023. Credit: Taylor Dahlin/Flickr via Wikimedia Commons.

Diaspora Jews under siege

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Traveling in America over the past three weeks to speak about my new book, I found a Jewish community in shock, bewilderment and, after the murderous attack last week on a young couple outside...
German-born documentary film director Marcel Ophuls. Photo by Patrick ROBERT/Sygma via Getty Images.

Jewish filmmaker Marcel Ophuls dies at 97

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Marcel Ophuls, an award-winning Jewish documentary maker, died peacefully at his home in southwest France on May 24 at the age of 97, his grandson Andreas-Benjamin Seyfert confirmed to The Associated Press on Monday. A...
Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Ben Abraham in Jerusalem. Credit: Courtesy

Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Ben Avraham’s soulful journey

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Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Ben Avraham stands at a unique crossroads of faith, culture and heritage. A convert to Judaism who proudly embraces his African-American identity while acknowledging his childhood roots in Islam, Ben Avraham...
Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer, June 12, 2012. Photo by Scott-Hendryk Dillan via Wikimedia Commons.

German dignitaries pay last respects to Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer

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Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel was one of several high-profile political figures present at the funeral of 103-year-old Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer at the Weissensee Jewish cemetery in Berlin on Thursday. Newly installed German Chancellor...