Marcy Oster
Gal Gadot at the 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif., Feb. 9, 2020. (Toni Anne Barson/WireImage/Getty Images via JTA)
October 14, 2020, 10:38 am
Critics accuse Gal Gadot of cultural appropriation for accepting Cleopatra role
Critics complained that Gadot is neither Egyptian nor Arab, while others are pointing out that Cleopatra wasn’t actually Arab.
By Marcy Oster
Workers at Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem wear protective clothes as they work in the coronavirus ward, Oct. 1, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90 via JTA)
October 7, 2020, 1:12 pm
Eight months into the pandemic, Israel is readying refrigerated morgues.
How did it get here?
By Marcy Oster and Gabe Friedman
The Hohe Weide Synagogue in Hamburg, Germany. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
October 6, 2020, 10:28 am
Jewish student seriously injured in attack outside synagogue in Hamburg, Germany
On Sunday, Oct. 4, a 29-year-old man dressed in military garb hit the Jewish student, who was wearing a kippah, over the head with a folding spade shovel outside of the synagogue.
By Marcy Oster
The California state capitol in Sacramento (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
October 1, 2020, 2:48 pm
California governor vetoes bill making ethnic studies a high school requirement
He said the graduation requirement needs more revising.
By Marcy Oster
A mural of Leila Khaled in the West Bank, June 16, 2013. (Ian Walton/Getty Images via JTA)
September 23, 2020, 11:05 am
Zoom will not host San Francisco State U event featuring Palestinian hijacker
Leila Khaled was part of a team that hijacked TWA Flight 840 on its way from Rome to Tel Aviv in August 1969.
By Marcy Oster
From left, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bahrain Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald J. Trump and Minister of Foreign Affairs for the United Arab Emirates Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan sign the Abraham Accords Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020, on the South Lawn of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Tia Dufour)
September 15, 2020, 5:36 pm
Israel officially signs peace treaties with UAE, Bahrain in White House ceremony
The UAE and Bahrain join Egypt and Jordan as the only Arab countries to have peace treaties with Israel.
By Marcy Oster
Joe Biden's campaign said his visit to Kenosha is intended "to bring together Americans to heal and address the challenges we face." (Michael Brochstein/Echoes Wire/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)
September 4, 2020, 11:20 am
Biden meets Jacob Blake’s family, right-wing media cites father’s anti-Semitism
Jacob Blake Sr. made a post insinuating that Jews in Pittsburgh were warned before the Oct. 27 shooting.
By Marcy Oster
The Aug. 25, 2020 fire at the Chabad Center at the University of Delaware has been ruled an arson. (JTA/Dave Wilson/ Aetna Hose, Hook & Ladder Company)
August 27, 2020, 1:02 pm
Fire at University of Delaware Chabad ruled arson
Students of Chabad UD launched a GoFundMe campaign to help rebuild the campus Chabad.
By Marcy Oster
Guy Niv was primarily a mountain biker and had little experience in road racing. (JTA/Noa Arnon)
August 21, 2020, 11:32 am
In a first, an Israeli will race in the Tour de France
Team Israel Start-Up Nation is the first Israel-based and Israel-owned team to race in the Tour de France.
By Marcy Oster
Police found several weapons at the home of Nicola Pelle. (JTA/Screenshot from WABC-TV)
August 19, 2020, 2:54 pm
NY man threatens to shoot Jewish day camp over alleged COVID-19 rule violations
He allegedly said to police: “If I’ve got to go out there with a freaking machine gun and shoot all these people, I will.”
By Marcy Oster
Pittsburgh Steelers offensive tackle Zach Banner tries challah for the first time (JTA/Twitter)
July 23, 2020, 2:30 pm
Zach Banner tries challah and (spoiler) he loves it
Banner has received challah deliveries since speaking out about anti-Semitism, he said.
By Marcy Oster
Charles Barkley poses for a picture with his sculpture at the Philadelphia 76ers training facility Sept. 13, 2019 in Camden, New Jersey. (JTA/Mitchell Leff/Getty Images)
July 20, 2020, 2:55 pm
Charles Barkley calls out Black sports figures and celebrities for anti-Semitism
“Listen, DeSean Jackson, Stephen Jackson, Nick Cannon, Ice Cube,” the NBA Hall of Famer said in a video tweeted by NBA on TNT.
By Marcy Oster
July 17, 2020, 11:44 am
News outlets covering Israel found, again, to have run ‘deepfake’ op-eds
Publications including Israel National News, The Jerusalem Post, The Algemeiner and the Times of Israel published pieces by a writer who does not appear to exist.
By Marcy Oster
(JTA/Paras Griffin/Getty Images for ESSENCE; Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
July 16, 2020, 11:04 am
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Jemele Hill call out anti-Semitism in Black community
Abdul-Jabbar notes a “shocking lack of massive indignation” over celebrities' anti-Semitic social media statements.
By Marcy Oster
Screenshot of Black Lives Matter march in Washington, D.C., July 2020. Marchers chanted: "Israel, we know you, you murder children, too"
July 2, 2020, 5:42 pm
BLM demonstrators in DC chant ‘Israel, we know you, you murder children, too’
Chants also alternated between “Black lives matter!” and “Palestinian lives matter!”
By Marcy Oster
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