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☆ Amsterdam soccer riots: How a toxic mix of antisemitism, racism and xenophobia culminated in violence
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-15 | by ( Lauren Kent | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Last week, Israeli soccer fans were attacked in the streets, Palestinian flags ripped off walls and antisemitic slurs yelled during riots. But the timeline of how tensions ignited in Amsterdam is different depending on which community you ask. “It’s really so, so manipulative… It only makes everything worse,” Jaïr Stranders, a local theater director and a board member of the Liberal Jewish Community of Amsterdam told CNN. But in Amsterdam, many local Jewish officials as well as the mayor have urged against using that description. “They are Dutch youth,” he noted, adding that Amsterdam is a city of many nationalities and many values that can peacefully coexist.

Persons: Amsterdam CNN —, “ It’s, it’s, It’s, Sheher Khan, ” Khan, “, Itay Garmy, ” Garmy, Amsterdam Mayor Femke, they’re, David, Benjamin Netanyahu, Geert Wilders, Halsema, Mouneb, Khan, Wilders, Jaïr, Stranders, Netanyahu, ” Stranders, ”, Israel, Said Alawi, “ I’m, Abdelaziz Chandoudi, ” Chandoudi, Mohammed Rasool Organizations: Amsterdam CNN, CNN, Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer, Maccabi, Police, Amsterdam Mayor, Getty, Freedom Party, Union, Maccabi fans, Liberal Jewish, Amsterdam, Senior, Moroccan Locations: Amsterdam, Dutch, Gaza, Netherlands, Europe, Israel, Palestine, ”, Anadolu, Amsterdam’s, Morocco, Noord, Holland

☆ What rabbis think of Netflix's 'Nobody Wants This' and Adam Brody's 'hot rabbi' character
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-06 | by ( Pilar Melendez | Pilar Melendez Is An Editor On The Nbc News Platforms Team. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +10 min

NBC News spoke with four rabbis about the buzzy series, which has generated intense online reaction, including a steady stream of Brody-focused “hot rabbi” memes, since its Sept. 26 release. Nevertheless, the “hot rabbi” memes still remain a major force behind the show’s public reception. He took no issue with Brody’s “hot rabbi” character and his lifestyle. “Yeah, I’m a hot rabbi. Like Zinkow, Rabbi Sari Laufer was cautious about the show — and planned to avoid it altogether.

Persons: Maya Zinkow, Kristen Bell, podcaster, ”, Adam Brody, Berkeley’s Hillel, “, ” Zinkow, Steve Leder, ” Adam Brody, ” Saeed Adyani, Rabbi Noah Roklov, Brody, Bell, Angelino, Harry Met Sally, ’, Erin Foster, Foster, Hugh Grant, Joanne —, adam brody, Seth Cohen, Adam Brody’s rizz, Leder, ” Leder, “ It’s, Noah, — Leder, Zinkow, I’m, Joanne, Rabbi Noah, Rabbi Sari Laufer, ” Laufer, Stephen Wise, Laufer, Rabbi Leora Kaye, Noah’s, Bina, Rebecca, Emily Arlook, ” “, Kaye, it’s, Jackie Tohn, Esther, NBC’s, That’s, ” Foster, “ They’re Organizations: University of California, NBC News, NBC, Netflix, Wilshire Boulevard Temple, Guardian, Stephen Wise Temple and Schools, Central Conference of American, Los Angeles Times, Jewish, Hallmark Locations: “, Brody, Israel, U.S, Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, “ Notting, Fleabag, New York, endogamy

☆ Opinion | Why on Earth Are Jewish Leaders Praising Elon Musk?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Michelle Goldberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +6 min

(In response, Musk threatened a “thermonuclear” lawsuit, but as of this writing does not appear to have filed one.) Abhorrence of the Jewish state slips easily into abhorrence of Jews. On the right, though, there’s a mirror image of this slippage, with some defenders of the Jewish state willing to make excuses for antisemites so long as they champion Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has regularly embraced nationalist leaders who deploy antisemitic tropes, Donald Trump chief among them. It’s hard to figure out who is behaving more cynically, Musk or the Jewish leaders who are koshering him.

Persons: Charles Weber, ‘ Hitler, ’ ” Weber, Elon Musk, ”, George Soros, Magneto —, Soros’s, Musk, Pepe, Kanye, Ye, Israel, I’ve, Los Angeles —, John Hagee, Adolf Hitler, Karl Marx, “, Hagee, Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump, Jonathan Greenblatt, Amichai Organizations: Twitter, West, Anti, Defamation League, Media, America, ADL Locations: America, Israel, Palestine, Gaza, France, Montreal, Los Angeles, Washington, ”, Pittsburgh

☆ Hunter College Pulls Screening of Film Critical of Israel
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Jennifer Schuessler | More About Jennifer Schuessler | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

The screening of “Israelism” at Hunter had been planned since June, according to Tami Gold, a professor in the film and media department who organized the screening. “Otherwise, there was no safety or security issue prior to Oct. 7,” he said. Since then, some venues have asked to postpone, and a screening at Grinnell College in Iowa was canceled. There is never a time to air this film, but especially not at a time when the A.D.L. On Friday, Anderson and Gold said, they were approached by the dean, Andrew Polsky, about security issues.

Persons: ”, Hunter, Tami Gold, Simone Zimmerman, Eitan, Cornel West, Jeremy Ben, Ami, Abraham H, Foxman, Daniel J, Chalfen, ” Kelly Anderson, It’s, “ It’s, Anderson, Gold, Andrew Polsky, Polsky, “, Kirschner, DiMiceli, ” Anderson, ” Marc Tracy Organizations: West Bank, Jewish, Defamation League, University of California, Grinnell College, Facebook Locations: Israel, Los Angeles, Iowa

☆ Jewish Viewers Find a Refuge in Fox News
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Jeremy W. Peters | More About Jeremy W. Peters | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Since September, Fox News’s audience has grown by a larger percentage than CNN and MSNBC in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Washington and Miami. And in the New York market — the nation’s largest — Fox has lately beaten its left-leaning rival, MSNBC, by a few percentage points. In September, Fox was drawing 16 percent fewer viewers than MSNBC in New York. Fox News — with the largest audience in all of cable television in recent years — draws a sizable number of Democratic and liberal-leaning viewers. “My Jewish liberal friends will text me and they’ll say, ‘Oh, this is where you go in the afternoon?’ because they never watched Fox before,” she said.

Persons: Israel, Fox, ”, “, Jessica Tarlov, Bill Maher ” Organizations: CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, Fox, Democratic, Nielsen, The Free Press Locations: Gaza, Israel, New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Los Angeles , Philadelphia, Washington, Minneapolis

In Los Angeles, Rabbi Sharon Brous, a well-known progressive activist who regularly criticizes the Israeli government, described from the pulpit her horror and feelings of “existential loneliness,” her voice breaking. From email listservs of progressive Jewish groups to protests on university campuses to social-media campaigns by prominent liberal Jewish celebrities like Sarah Silverman, the war is bringing to a head more than a decade of tensions about Israel on the American left. Interviews with dozens of liberal Jewish leaders and voters, and a review of social media posts, private emails and text chains of liberal Jewish groups, reveal a politically engaged swath of American Jewry who are reaching a breaking point. He sent hundreds of letters to Los Angeles city officials urging them to denounce the organization and label it a “hate group.” The D.S.A. Polling since the attacks indicates strong national backing for Israel, including a notable uptick in support among Democrats.

Persons: Rabbi Sharon Brous, ”, “, I’m, Sarah Silverman, Benjamin Netanyahu, Nick Melvoin, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, Martin Luther King Jr, Eric Spiegelman, Spiegelman, Biden, Trump, Israel, ” Eva Borgwardt, IfNotNow Organizations: West Bank, Democratic Party, New Israel Fund, Israel, Facebook, Jewish, Los Angeles Unified School Board, Democratic Socialists of America, Democratic, Younger, U.S, Capitol Locations: Gaza, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Israel, Angeles, Palestine, United States, America, New York City, American

The world has changed since Biden visited a familiar place to talk up familiar topics, though. Other domestic matters also are competing for political attention, with the fight over choosing the next Republican House speaker potentially imperiling continued U.S. aid to Ukraine and a United Auto Workers strike entering its fifth week. Biden's reelection campaign has joined the White House in stressing that being president always means juggling multiple pressing concerns. Whatever the message, the president can help himself politically Friday just by staying focused on Pennsylvania, said longtime Democratic strategist Robert Shrum. He returned to Philadelphia in July, visiting a shipyard where he talked up how organized labor would lead a major push toward embracing green energy.

Persons: Joe Biden, he'll, Biden, Hunter, ” Cathal Nolan, Nolan, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, you’ve, ”, Joel Rubin, Bernie Sanders, Benjamin Netanyahu, “, ” Biden, Rubin, Biden's, Karine Jean, Pierre said, Biden “, Israel ”, Jean, Robert Shrum, ” Shrum, he's, Mustafa Rashed Organizations: WASHINGTON, Biden, Hamas, Republican, United Auto Workers, Institute, Boston University, Obama, State Department, Israeli, Islamic, J, White, Associated Press, NORC, for Public Affairs Research, Democratic, ALF, Labor Locations: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Israel, Gaza, Ukraine, America, Colorado, U.S, Washington, Maryland, Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, Scranton , Pennsylvania

☆ An Open Marriage, a Bad Decision and a Grandmother Who Needs Cash
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Cathi Hanauer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

HOPE, by Andrew RidkerIf for Emily Dickinson “hope” is the thing with feathers, for Andrew Ridker, in his novel called “Hope,” it’s an upstanding liberal Jewish family outside Boston, grasping at air as they plummet from grace. Think Harvard-educated physician father, socially conscious Brookline mother and young adult offspring struggling to self-actualize. He does this for the money: The green energy start-up he invested in has failed, and his octogenarian mother, Marjorie, needs help paying for an elite retirement community. In different ways, the books explore American males overseas (here, Israel and Syria) and do-gooderism gone wrong. They jump smoothly around in time (“Hope” takes place over a year in the Obama era) and skillfully enter the viewpoint of all main characters, lending each depth and humanity.

Persons: Andrew Ridker, Emily Dickinson, ”, Scott, Marjorie, ” Ahmet —, “, Franzen, grapples, Obama Organizations: Harvard, ” Locations: Boston, Brookline, Turkish, Berlin, Israel, Syria

For just as long, critics of affirmative action have questioned whether race-conscious admissions policies are fair or warranted. The Supreme Court weighed in on Thursday, striking down affirmative action policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. In 2014, he founded Students for Fair Admissions, the group behind several major Supreme Court challenges to affirmative action - including the cases that led to Thursday's decision. Connerly persuaded his fellow regents to ban affirmative action. He concluded that affirmative action as part of an approach that aimed to remedy historic disadvantages and did not favor unqualified applicants over qualified ones could still be used.

Persons: EDWARD BLUM Edward Blum, Blum, LEE BOLLINGER, Lee Bollinger, Society's, Bollinger, WARD CONNERLY, Jim Crow, Pete Wilson, Connerly, CHRISTOPHER EDLEY, Bill Clinton, Christopher Edley Jr, Clinton, Edley, Joseph Ax, Gabriella Borter, Sharon Bernstein, Donna Bryson, Leslie Adler Organizations: Harvard, University of North, Fair, University of Michigan, U.S, Bollinger, Columbia University, Universities, Republican, Regents, University of California, UC, American, JR, UC Berkeley's, Thomson Locations: University of North Carolina, U.S ., Grutter, Michigan, California, Louisiana, Sacramento

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