Zelensky Is a Jewish Hero. Some Jews Worry the Acclaim Won’t Last. – Religion & Politics
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on March 17, 2022.
Jew in the City Launches Hollywood Bureau for Jewish Representation: We Want to Be Seen as Individuals – Variety
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Through her organization Jew in the City (JITC), Allison Josephs has been advocating for accurate representations of the Jewish community in the media since 2007. Shes now opening an official Hollywood bureau to elevate JITCs efforts, something Josephs said she would have done earlier, but she had no idea such a thing even existed until last year. We had been using social media, op-eds and relationships with reporters, Josephs said, until she learned about other minority Hollywood bureaus created by the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), NAACP and the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment (CAPE).
The Surprising, Fraught History of the Texan Jewish Experience – Texas Monthly
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The broad wooden trunk with floral engravings looks impossibly heavy. But in the early 1900s, Rachmiel Robert Shapiro carried it with him as he sneaked out of Russia and made his way to the United States.
Jewish stories were excluded from a new movie museum. Is Hollywoods push for diversity leaving them behind? – JTA News – Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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(JTA) A new museum about the history of Hollywood will have a permanent exhibition devoted to the contributions of Jews after early criticism that Jews were omitted. The change was announced this week in the lead-up to this years Academy Awards, which features a slate of nominees more diverse than in the past
Could Ryan Turell become the first Orthodox Jew to play in the NBA? Scouts say its a long shot. – JTA News – Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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(JTA) Elliot Steinmetz knows something about firsts: last July, his son Jacob became the first known Orthodox baseball player to get picked in the MLB draft. The elder Steinmetz is also the head coach of the Yeshiva University mens basketball team, a squad of Modern Orthodox players that shocked the sports world with an unlikely 50-game winning streak that spanned multiple seasons. The teams leader was Ryan Turell, a 6-foot-7 guard who has entered the NBA draft, hoping to become the leagues first Orthodox player
Milwaukee Jewish Federation audit finds a near-record high of antisemitic incidents in Wisconsin – WUWM
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A Milwaukee Jewish organization has released an annual audit of reported antisemitic incidents in Wisconsin.
The surprisingly Jewish history of the Rorschach inkblot test – Forward
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April 2 marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Hermann Rorschach, the Swiss psychoanalyst who propounded the Rorschach inkblot test, still used as a means of evaluating mental conditions. The Rorschach test immediately attracted strong support from Jewish clinicians.
The Forgotten Jew Who Developed The Cholera And Bubonic Plague Vaccines – The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com
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Most people can identify the developers of the worlds most important vaccines, including Louis Pasteur (rabies, anthrax), Edward Jenner (smallpox), and Jonas Salk (polio and influenza), but the name Mordechai Wolff (Waldemar) Haffkine, an Orthodox Jew who is credited with the development and use of vaccines against cholera and bubonic plague, has been forgotten, even though he arguably saved far more lives than they did. He was hailed as the Jewish Jenner; he was characterized by Joseph Lister, the pioneer of antiseptic surgery, as a savior of humanity; and, in R. Joseph Hertzs well-known second edition of the Soncino Chumash, the influential chief rabbi of the British Empire noted that he was a famous scientist
These Messianic missionaries were at the Ukraine border, and now theyre coming to New York – JTA News – Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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(New York Jewish Week) Fresh off of a mission on the Ukrainian border, a Messianic group that seeks Jews to accept Jesus is setting its sights on Jewish New Yorkers. Chosen People Ministries is one two Messianic groups that announced plans this week to visit New York and share their gospel this summer, causing alarm for some Jews in the city who say that their practices are disrespectful.
Once Victims in Southeast Europe, Jews Come to Aid Fleeing Ukrainians – The New York Times
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CHISINAU, Moldova At a synagogue in central Chisinau on Monday, an Israeli social worker, Omer Hod, had a flash of historical vertigo. Ms
