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| JEWISH. INDEPENDENT. NONPROFIT. Give a tax-deductible donation Joe Rogan's new Nazi video, D.C.'s new Jewish museum, Bible's new stolen artifacts, Jonathan Franzen's new religious novel and Netflix's best new show you're not watching. 6 FORWARD STORIES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED The seemingly never-ending season of Jewish festivals has finally come to an end. For now … Hanukkah starts this year on Thanksgiving weekend. 😯 Let that sink in as we catch you up the news...
Washington, D.C., will soon be getting a Jewish museum. “The Holocaust museum has been an anchor in Washington D.C. for a long time,” noted Kara Blond, director of the Capital Jewish Museum, “but we’ve never had a museum that talks about the life, culture and history of Jewish D.C.” Read the story >
Patent infringement lawsuits aren’t normally that interesting, but a highly unusual legal brawl caught our attention. An Israeli grocery startup claims that Amazon’s lawyers used antisemitic language to sway a Texas jury against it. The response from Amazon’s attorney? She’s Jewish, and she moved to the United States to escape religious persecution in the Soviet Union. Catch up here >
A Palestinian-German journalist won plaudits for exposing neo-Nazis – then lost her dream job for criticizing Israel. The case has raised alarms for pro-Palestinian activists in Germany who see a growing tendency to brand criticism of Israel as antisemitic, a uniquely potent accusation in a country still traumatized by its Nazi history. Read the story>
And speaking of Germany: Timo Schmitz, a political scientist, Yiddishist and Forward contributor, looks at Angela Merkel’s legacy standing up against antisemitism and what the next government portends for the country’s Jews and relationship with Israel. Read the OpEd >
Though it looked to the past, ‘Hester Street’ was way ahead of its time: Joan Micklin Silver’s 1975 adaptation of a novel by Ab Cahan – the founding editor of the Forward – earned Carol Kane an Oscar nomination for her performance as Gitl, a fresh off-the-boat Yiddish-speaking wife. It was set in the late 19th century, but its feminist message remains timely. Read the story >
WHAT ELSE YOU NEED TO KNOW Joe Rogan shared a controversial video to his 13.2 million Instagram followers. (Getty Images) 🎙 Joe Rogan, who hosts the second-most listened to podcast on Spotify and recently recovered from COVID-19, shared a video on Instagram comparing vaccine mandates to Nazi Germany. Deborah Lipstadt, President Biden’s nominee for global antisemitism envoy, has called such comparisons “historically ludicrous.” (Vice, Forward, Chartable)
📜 Hobby Lobby is suing an antiquities researcher, claiming that dozens of items the company bought from him for its Museum of the Bible in D.C. were in fact stolen artifacts. The museum, which opened in 2017, has previously been accused of smuggling more than 5,000 artifacts from Iraq and showcasing Dead Sea Scrolls that turned out to be forgeries. (NYT)
💰 The federal government may shut down at midnight if Congress doesn’t pass a stopgap spending bill. That bill now includes $22 million to fund an investigation into the Surfside building collapse, which devastated the South Florida Jewish community this summer. “As we still mourn all those we lost, it’s crucial to assess just how widespread these building vulnerability issues may be,” said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Florida Democrat who introduced the measure. (Forward)
⚾️ The Philadelphia Jewish Sports Hall of Fame is rebuilding after it was damaged by Hurricane Ida. Lockers of memorabilia were found floating around in water, oil and sewage after last month’s storm. (CBS Philly)
📈 Israeli tech companies are having a(nother) moment: They’ve collectively raised $15.1 billion so far in 2021, up from $10.7 billion in all of 2020, the Wall Street Journal reports. But the “boom has increased housing and living costs,” the article warns, “and the wealth gap threatens to exacerbate Israel’s cultural, religious and political fault lines.” (WSJ)
🍿 Producers are waiting until next year to cast the actor who will replace Daniel Craig as the next James Bond. We’re not waiting: PJ Grisar has some Jewish options for the casting department. (Forward)
Shiva call > Rabbi Moshe Dovid Tendler, a medical ethicist who taught at Yeshiva University for decades, died at 95. The funeral is scheduled for this afternoon at the Community Synagogue of Monsey, where Tendler was a spiritual leader.
What we’re watching > If you haven’t seen “Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space,” stop whatever you’re doing and turn on your TV now. The Netflix docuseries tracks the journey of four civilians as they embark on the first trip to space with no professional astronauts on board. The team – led by philanthropist Jared Isaacman – will bring you hope and to tears. The final episode drops today.
FROM OUR ARCHIVES For this week’s look back, we bring you this photo that ran in the Forward on May 9, 1926, taken by our Eastern European photojournalist, Alter Kacyzne. Here’s the original caption, translated from Yiddish: “SHABBAS IS HERE! — Ezrilka, the ‘Shabbas Klapper,’ is a functionary who goes from house to house in Biala announcing with his hammer that the time for lighting candles is at hand.”
ON THE CALENDAR (Getty Images) On this day in history: Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate, was born on Sept. 30, 1928. Wiesel traveled to Moscow as a reporter for the Forward in 1965, dancing on Simchat Torah with young Russian Jews fearless enough to publicly celebrate a Jewish festival under the watchful eye of the KGB. “Jewish youth refuse to inherit their elders’ terror,” Wiesel wrote in our pages. “Let the local press deride them, let their oppressors implode with anger. They refuse to be robbed of their Jewishness and have their annual yontef beneath the open skies ruined.”
Tune in: Jon Stewart returns to television today with his new talk show on Apple TV+.
Tonight: Here’s your chance to see a rare 1988 documentary called “The Forward: From Immigrants to Americans.” At 6 p.m. ET, our editor-in-chief, Jodi Rudoren, will interview the filmmakers, Marlene Booth and Linda Matchan. Register now and get a link to watch the film.
One more thing: Happy International Podcast Day!
NEW EPISODE ALERT On our advice podcast, “Family Affair” asks whether she should tell her cousin that she has accidentally discovered his wife is using a Jewish dating app. “This definitely feels off,” she says. “I’m very close to my cousin. Do I tell him… or do I assume he knows?” Chana Pollack, the Forward’s archivist, brings a vintage 1906 Bintel about adultery and secrecy to the conversation with our hosts, Ginna Green and Lynn Harris. Listen now >
PHOTO OF THE DAY (Photo: Joseph Schneider) This week marks the 80th anniversary of the Babi Yar massaacre, in which Nazi forces killed nearly 35,000 Jews in a ravine in Kiev. To this day, Yad Vashem is still trying to catalog the names of the murdered.
The National Library of Israel has just released some rare photos of the Soviet-era struggle to commemorate the atrocity. Above, two investigators try to locate and identify remains at the site in 1966.
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