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How a determined Jewish community helped bring home Danny Fenster, the journalist imprisoned in Myanmar

By ANDREW LAPIN

HUNTINGTON WOODS, Michigan (JTA) — For nearly six months, anyone driving through this well-manicured and heavily Jewish residential Detroit suburb was guaranteed to spot the yard signs. They were red, white and blue, with a large black-and-white...

National survey on youth and religion raises concern about Gen-Z Jews — and questions about how to understand them

By ASAF SHALEV and ELLA ROCKART

(JTA) — A massive survey conducted over the past year found that even as young Americans are rejecting traditional organized religion, they are still embracing faith and spirituality, broadly defined.

The pollsters behind the Springtide...

At the Charlottesville trial, defendants got the judge to say ‘gas the kikes.’ Here’s how, and why it matters.

By RON KAMPEAS

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (JTA) — Days before a neo-Nazi drove his car into a crowd of protesters here at the site of the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” rally, he texted his mother.

Samantha Bloom was worried that her...

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

By JACOB GURVIS

(JTA) — A crochet museum in Joshua Tree, California features countless crochet animals that appear in airport ads worldwide. The National Mustard Museum in Wisconsin was founded by a Jewish condiment aficionado.

In February 2019, another niche...

Former LA. journalist Danny Fenster remembered for his award-winning work

By ALAN SMASON, Exclusive to the CCJN

Danny Fenster, a Jewish Detroit-born journalist who won a top Louisiana award for a series of stories he wrote in New Iberia about the marginalized and threatened African-American community there, was formally sentenced...

The real Jewish story behind the Will Ferrell-Paul Rudd series ‘The Shrink Next Door’

By BEN SALES

(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — One of the first images of “The Shrink Next Door,” the limited series premiering Friday on Apple TV+, is of a smiling man wearing a huge kippah, chatting at a...

On Kristallnacht anniversary, Austrian government unveils memorial wall with 64,440 names

By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ

(JTA) — The Austrian government inaugurated a $7 million Holocaust memorial monument on the anniversary of the 1938 Kristallnacht pogroms.

The “Shoah Wall of Names” that city and central government officials unveiled Tuesday in Vienna lists 64,440...

New film ‘City of a Million Dreams’ documents Jewish chroniclers of ‘second line’ and jazz funeral culture

By ALAN SMASON, Exclusive to the CCJN

When the new documentary film “City of a Million Dream” bows this weekend at the New Orleans Film Festival, it will be another stop on the festival tour for producers Jason Berry, Simonette...

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, whose supporters included a spectrum of Jewish voters, narrowly wins reelection

By RON KAMPEAS

(JTA) — New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, the Democrat who cultivated relations across the political spectrum with his state’s substantial Jewish community, defeated Republican Jack Ciattarelli in a tight reelection.

The election Tuesday was closer than anticipated,...

Max Fried pitches Atlanta Braves to first World Series win in 26 years

By JACOB GURVIS

(JTA) — Jewish ace pitcher Max Fried delivered his Atlanta Braves to their first World Championship since 1995 with six shutout innings in Tuesday’s Game 6 of a World Series heralded as the most Jewish in baseball...