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Sheldon Harnick accepts the special Tony Award for lifetime achievement in the Theatre at the Tony Awards at the Beacon Theatre on June 12, 2016, in New York (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
June 23, 2023, 9:14 pm
Sheldon Harnick, award-winning lyricist of ‘Fiddler on the Roof,’ dies aged 99
Also penned the words for ‘Fiorello!’ and ‘The Apple Tree’; actor Jackie Hoffman: ‘Like all brilliant persnickety lyricists he was a pain in the tuchus’
By Mark Kennedy
Betty Woolf, left, and her siblings Minna and Joseph celebrate their 90th birthday in 2017. (Courtesy/Jason Paladino via JTA)
June 22, 2023, 6:40 am
Betty Woolf, last surviving of world’s oldest mixed triplets, dies at age 96
Jewish nonagenarian from New York helped found synagogue community in San Diego, held Guinness record with siblings
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Amichai Chikli, minister of Diaspora affairs and social equality, arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on May 14, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 14, 2023, 8:51 am
Diaspora minister Chikli doesn’t understand US Jews, says administration official
Senior figure, who deals extensively with Israeli dignitaries, pans minister over incident in New York parade when he appeared to make rude gesture at anti-government protesters
By Ron Kampeas
MK Amichai Chikli at a Knesset House Committee meeting on the Yamina party's request to declare him a 'defector,' on April 25, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 13, 2023, 7:23 am
Diaspora Minister Chikli calls J Street ‘hostile’ amid tussle over photo
Likud lawmaker accuses liberal pro-Israel lobby of faking photo showing him appear to make an obscene gesture toward protesters in New York last week
By JTA and ToI Staff
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a meeting of his Religious Zionism party at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 1, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 12, 2023, 4:55 pm
Smotrich met with two prominent US Jewish leaders during boycotted March visit
Heads of Conference of Presidents and JFNA — two of largest American Jewish umbrella bodies — quietly sat down with hardline minister even as AIPAC, 70+ organizations refused
By Jacob Magid
Illustrative: Texas state Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, center, is joined by his sons, David and Whitby, during the Pledge of Allegiance in the House Chamber at the Texas Capitol on the last day of the legislative session in Austin, Texas, May 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
June 10, 2023, 3:32 am
Jewish activists lead charge against inserting religion back into US public schools
With over 1,600 bills nationwide seeking to instill religious values in state educational institutions, advocacy groups protest the ‘crumbling wall’ between church and state
By Cathryn J. Prince
Illustrative: Kosherfest, the world's largest kosher trade show. (Josefin Dolsten/ JTA)
June 9, 2023, 5:00 pm
After 3 decades Kosherfest food fair bites the dust, reflecting a changing industry
The decision comes as kosher food has gone mainstream, with some 40% of packaged food and drink sold in the US certified kosher as of 2018
By Jackie Hajdenberg
The interior of the 1876 synagogue that is the core of the new Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, June 1, 2023. (Ron Sachs/Consolidated News Photos via JTA)
June 9, 2023, 2:53 am
New Jewish DC museum flags Jews who shaped capital, from a Confederate spy to RBG
The Capital Jewish Museum, set to open Friday in the historically Jewish Judiciary Square neighborhood, doesn’t shy away from showcasing a warts-and-all local history
By Ron Kampeas
File: Judy Clarke, then a member of the legal defense team for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, arrives at John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse for the sentencing phase in the Boston Bomber Trial, in Boston, Massachusetts. April 30, 2015. (Scott Eisen/Getty Images via AFP)
June 8, 2023, 10:46 am
Judy Clarke, who defends ‘worst of the worst,’ now represents Pittsburgh shooter
Attorney acknowledges guilt of client Robert Bowers, charged with 2018 massacre at Tree of Life synagogue, but is fighting to prevent death sentence
By Toby Tabachnick
Barbie doll creator Ruth Handler, left, gets a kiss from Kristi Cooke, an actress dressed as a Barbie doll, during the 35th birthday celebration for the doll at FAO Schwarz in New York City on March 9, 1994. (AP Photo/Robert Clark)
June 6, 2023, 3:24 am
Way before icon Barbie got the Hollywood treatment, she was ‘born’ with Jewish roots
From her creation by unconventional entrepreneur Ruth Handler to her inclusivity and ability to adapt with the times, the famous doll bears some trademarks of the Tribe
By Cathryn J. Prince
Marchers including Israeli activists in the Celebrate Israel Parade in New York City, June 4, 2023. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
June 5, 2023, 1:39 am
Flag-waving protesters lash coalition lawmakers as NY holds annual Israel parade
Slimmed-down contingent of government representatives heckled over plans to reorganize judiciary as tens of thousands march through Manhattan in yearly display of solidarity
By Luke Tress
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (left) and Ram Dass, born Richard Alpert, in February 2008. (Wikimedia commons/ CC BY-SA 2.0/ Joan Halifax)
June 2, 2023, 5:12 am
Overdue or overdone? Two US scholars hope to secure the legacy of ‘Jewish Renewal’
In a chapter from a newly released collection on US Judaism, Jerome Chanes and Shaul Magid argue that the countercultural movement had an outsized impact – but not all agree
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Police tape surrounds an assault rifle magazine in the aftermath of a mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, October 28, 2018. (US District Court Western District of Pennsylvania Evidence Photo via JTA)
June 1, 2023, 3:25 am
At Pittsburgh gunman’s trial, Jewish rituals feature as prominently as deadly carnage
Descriptions of items, practices in US synagogue proving crucial for prosecution in trial of shooter, who killed 11 Jews praying at three congregations on Shabbat in October 2018
By Ron Kampeas
The Celebrate Israel Parade in New York City, May 22, 2022. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
May 30, 2023, 12:47 am
18 Israeli politicians said slated to attend Sunday’s Celebrate Israel Parade in NYC
Nine ministers and 9 Knesset members will reportedly travel to United States for event, where coalition members are expected to face anti-judicial overhaul protests
By ToI Staff and Luke Tress
Arnold Horween, right, and Ralph Horween, left, in 1919. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
May 29, 2023, 3:50 am
How Arnold Horween, an unsung Jewish Harvard hero, changed American sports
In his new book ‘Dyed in Crimson,’ Zev Eleff shows how years before Koufax or Greenberg hit the scene, one tenacious athlete jumped racial hurdles to achieve national acclaim
By jacob gurvis
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