Daily Archives: January 11, 2022
Co-creator of legendary Woodstock festival dies at 77
Michael Lang, a longtime producer and the Jewish co-creator of the famous 1969 Woodstock music festival, died on Jan. 8 at the age of 77.
The native of Brooklyn, N.Y., died from “a rare form...
Fellow comedians recall Bob Saget, quintessentially Jewish funnyman, who died at age 65
Robert (“Bob”) Saget was best known as the understanding and loving father Danny Tanner in the ABC hit sitcom “Full House.” As a recently widowed father of DJ, Stephanie and Michelle (Candice Cameron Bure,...
New York governor’s term limits plan is good for the Jews, too
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is calling for term limits for statewide elected officials, following in the footsteps of California and many other states that have already adopted such limits. The American Jewish community,...
Mansour Abbas is leading a sea change for Israel’s Arabs
Just a few weeks ago, Knesset member Mansour Abbas—the head of Israel’s Ra’am Party—said it’s time for his countrymen to accept Israel’s Jewish identity.
His remarks were met with outrage—both from Arabs inside Israel and...
Polish diplomat fired after calling country’s Holocaust speech law ‘stupid’
A Polish diplomat has reportedly been fired after calling his own government’s laws regarding speech centered around the Holocaust “stupid.”
Jaroslaw Nowak, the plenipotentiary for contacts with the Jewish Diaspora, made the comments in an...
Florida hires its first Orthodox Jewish police officer
Florida’s first Orthodox Jewish police officer was sworn in last week and will serve as part of the North Miami Beach Police Department.
Yehuda Topper, who served in the New York City Police Department for...
In aftermath of deadly Bronx fire, Jewish community offers food, staples and compassion
Orthodox Jewish groups have been mobilizing to assist residents of a high-rise apartment building in the Bronx, N.Y., after a Sunday-morning fire killed 17 people—eight of them children—in what’s being called the worst fire...
Study shows spike in COVID-related depression, anxiety among Israeli teens
There was a significant spike in mental health diagnoses and consumption of different types of psychiatric medications by Israeli adolescents during the last two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study has shown.
The...
When Habits Become Compulsions
Habits are what give our lives structure. They are patterns of behavior that are repeated over certain time intervals. Some of them, like when men shave, occur usually once a day, unless a man...
Israel’s UN delegation seeks more Israelis in the world body
Israel’s delegation to the United Nations has been working in recent weeks to increase the number of Israelis employed at the world body’s headquarters in New York.
Israel is suffering from a lack of representation...