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November 4, 2024. SHARE. Jewish leaders in Chicago felt a “sense of relief” on Thursday when the local prosecutor upgraded the charges against a Mauritian man, who crossed into the U.S. illegally, who shot a Jewish man walking to synagogue to include both hate crime and terrorism charges. But the move has raised questions among Jewish ...
Next season of ‘Fauda’ will take on Oct. 7 attacks, show creators say
Mar 12, 2024 · Season 5 will be “totally different,” creators of ‘Fauda’ say during panel discussion
Meet the Israeli actress telling the story of Israel’s creation – on ...
Ruth Marks Eglash. August 1, 2023. Israeli actress Swell Ariel Or is only 23 years old, but as the star of a period drama airing on Netflix that for the past year has been drawing in worldwide audiences, she now finds herself in an important role: sharing with a global audience key elements of the backstory of Israel’s founding.
For the State Dept’s top spokeswoman, her journey to Judaism …
Apr 24, 2020 · Ortagus started in USAID’s Washington headquarters in 2007 but was soon offered a placement in Baghdad. “Everything was Middle East, like 24/7, at that time,” Ortagus said. As a 25-year-old just a few years after 9/11 and the start of the Iraq War, the answer was easy. “I was like, ‘Me, me, I’ll go!’” she recalled.
The ‘Boy With No Job’ gets a new job - Jewish Insider
Aug 30, 2021 · Soffer, too, has grown up, or — as influencers hope to do — he has at least grown his personal brand. He’s now leveraging the @BoyWithNoJob following to launch Spritz Society, a new canned wine-based cocktail. “ Because I love spritzes, I would post pictures of them on Instagram, and I would get feedback from my followers that they didn ...
Investigating the mysterious man behind the Drudge Report
Jul 27, 2020 · Every journalist knows that a link from the Drudge Report is the ne plus ultra of online engagement, with the potential to send millions of pageviews to a single story.. But few reporters know much — if anything — about Matt Drudge, the press-shy media mogul behind the barebones news aggregation site he launched as a newsletter 25 years ago.
The New York Sun rises again - Jewish Insider
Feb 25, 2022 · The New York Sun, the long-defunct daily broadsheet, marked its return to the city’s hypercompetitive local media market on Wednesday, launching an updated website featuring dozens of newly hired staffers and an editorial vision highlighting a range of traditionally minded journalistic principles. “The Sun eschews cynicism,” Dovid Efune, the publisher, wrote in a mission statement ...
A closer look at Biden’s foreign policy team - Jewish Insider
Jacob Kornbluh. November 24, 2020. President-elect Joe Biden announced key appointments to his White House national security team on Monday as he begins to assemble his Cabinet. Among the appointments requiring Senate confirmation are senior foreign policy advisor Tony Blinken as secretary of state; Alejandro “Ali” Nicholas Mayorkas, a ...
Three new polls offer three different takeaways on the Jewish vote …
September 13, 2024. Three new polls released in recent weeks show different results with respect to Jewish voter sentiment in the presidential election, raising questions about how a key voting bloc could shape the closely-contested race. The Jewish Democratic Council of America this week released a national poll of 800 self-identified Jewish ...
Inside New Jersey’s Orthodox boomtown - Jewish Insider
Feb 18, 2022 · In Lakewood, the neighborhood church is a synagogue. Over the last decade, the majority-Orthodox Lakewood was the second-fastest growing city in New Jersey. Its population increased by more than 45%, or some 42,000 people, between 2010 and 2020, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.