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Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Francis Prevost gestures on the main central loggia balcony of the St Peter's Basilica, after the cardinals ended the conclave, in the Vatican, on May 8, 2025. Credit: Andrej Isakovic/AFP via Getty Images.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, of Chicago, is first US-born pope, Leo XIV

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, 69, a Chicago native, was elected as the new pope of the Catholic Church on Thursday. He will be called Leo XIV. The first U.S.-born pope is also a Peruvian citizen...

Anti-Zionism on Campus

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The demonization and delegitimization of Israel and bigotry directed toward Jewish faculty, staff, and students is increasing at dramatic rates on university and college campuses. In these supposedly intellectual spaces, virulently anti-Israel “scholars” and student-activists connected to,...
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin at the book launch, April 21, 2025. Photo by Meir Elipur.

Rabbi Riskin’s new book portrays Judaism as a love story

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What keeps the Jewish people going? Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, the charismatic and eloquent Brooklyn, N.Y.-born educator who became a moderate voice of Modern Orthodoxy in Israel, provides an inspirational answer in his new book, Judaism:...
eth Lane, the director of the 2025 film “Unbroken,” with her mother, Ginger. Credit: Courtesy of Greenwich Entertainment.

Against all odds, seven siblings in Berlin survived the Holocaust

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Would you hide me? That’s a hypothetical question that Beth Lane asks several Berlin youths in her directorial debut, “Unbroken.” The answers they give her might surprise some. The documentary chronicles how her mother, five...

Chaim Grade’s last Yiddish novel ‘Sons and Daughters’ finally available in English

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When millions of Yiddish-speaking Eastern European Jews perished in the Holocaust, their stories, culture and way of life were wiped out with them. One survivor, the novelist Chaim Grade, made it his life’s mission to...
The cast of the comedy film “Bad Shabbos.” Credit: Courtesy of Menemsha Films.

A ‘Bad Shabbos’ makes good comedy

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Director and writer Daniel Robbins was looking for a different kind of comedy when producer Adam Mitchell had an idea that he had never seen done on screen before. Robbins, who is a Modern...
B’nai B’rith Portugal releases a bilingual book titled "The Universal Rights of Children" at a ceremony held in Porto, April 7, 2025. Credit: B’nai B’rith Portugal.

New book advocates for rights of Jewish children

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B’nai B’rith Portugal, in partnership with the London-based International Observatory of Human Rights, has released a bilingual book titled "The Universal Rights of Children." The publication, released in time for both the Jewish holiday of...
Film director and comedian Mel Brooks at the 20th Century Fox lot on Oct. 23, 2014 in Century City, Calif. Credit: Kathy Hutchins/Shutterstock

For Mel Brooks, world history (no joke!) repeats itself

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Nearly 40 years after his “History of the World, Part I” debuted in 1981, Mel Brooks released “History of the World, Part II” on the eve of Purim, which began on March 6. Brooks (he’ll...
A scene from the Holocaust film “Bau, Artist at War,” out for release in September 2025 Credit: Courtesy.

Holocaust drama ‘Bau, Artist at War’ to premiere in September

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“Bau, Artist at War,” a historical drama directed by Sean McNamara  (“Reagan,” “Soul Surfer”), will have its theatrical release by ShowBiz Direct in the United States and Canada on Sept. 26. The film, which stars Emile Hirsch as real-life Holocaust survivor and artist Joseph...
Pro-Palestinian activists gather at an encampment at Rutgers University in May 2024. Photo by Faygie Holt.

‘Blind Spot’ documentary on campus antisemitism premieres on JBS

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In a timely and urgent cinematic release, the Jewish Broadcasting Service (JBS) will host the exclusive television premiere of “Blind Spot” a searing new documentary that confronts one of the most troubling phenomena in...