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Diplomatic ties fray further as South Africa and Israel kick out each other’s envoys
2+ hour, 53+ min ago (430+ words) By Grace Gilson February 1, 2026 (JTA) " South Africa has expelled Israel's top diplomat in the country, spurring Israel to respond hours later by removing South Africa's envoy. The South African Foreign Ministry announced on Friday morning that it had declared Ariel…...
How would Jews fleeing Europe have fared under Trump's anti-immigration policies?
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (431+ words) Terrence Petty November 29, 2025 Donald Trump's vision of foreigners worthy of emigrating to the United States appears to boil down to this: white, Nordic, Christian, politically conservative, not obese, and not a potential drain on public services. It's a fantasy that's…...
Could dementia be the key to saving endangered Jewish languages?
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (623+ words) By Lauren Hakimi October 11, 2025 One day, when Sabrina Hakim was out for a walk with her father, he started speaking a language she could not understand. Sabrina figured he must be speaking Judeo-Kashi, a variety of Judeo-Iranian. Her father spoke…...
Grok, Elon Musk’s AI tool, spreads antisemitic conspiracies about 'Cindy Steinberg"
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (532+ words) By Arno Rosenfeld Enterprise Reporter July 8, 2025 Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot owned by Elon Musk, responded to multiple users on X Tuesday with antisemitic claims, apparently as part of an update intended to make the tool "less politically correct." "And…...
How Oct. 7 shaped a film about Zimbabwe’s Civil War
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (1020+ words) By PJ Grisar July 7, 2025 Embeth Davidtz remembers the violence " and the fear. When she was 8, she moved from bucolic New Jersey, with its rolling green hills and yellow school buses, to her father's home country of South Africa. Newly off…...
No Jews allowed: White supremacists are building a segregated community in Arkansas, but is it legal?
7+ mon, 1+ day ago (789+ words) Eric Orwoll is co-founder of Return to the Land, which is establishing a segregated community in Arkansas. Courtesy of screenshot from Eric Orwoll Return to the Land video By Hannah Feuer June 30, 2025 Nearly 60 years after the United States outlawed racial…...
‘Rabbi to watch’ Sandra Lawson turns DEI focus to North Carolina
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (551+ words) Rabbi Sandra Lawson will lead Carolina Jews for Justice. Courtesy of Sandra Lawson By Robin Washington June 11, 2025 When Rabbi Sandra Lawson became'Reconstructing Judaism's first director of racial diversity, equity and inclusion'in January 2021, her hiring was hailed as the denomination making…...
Trump just granted asylum to a man who posted ‘Jews are dangerous’
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (883+ words) A South African who arrived in the United States this week under President Donald Trump's plan to assist the country's supposedly besieged whites has unexpected baggage: an apparent belief that Jews are "dangerous." Charl Kleinhaus was among the first of…...
How a Jewish boy from Canterbury became a Zulu chieftain
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (680+ words) When he first read about a Jewish Zulu king in Africa, Adam Rovner didn't believe it. He was doing research for his first book, In the Shadows of Zion, which documents proposals for a Jewish homeland outside of Israel, when…...
After doing his 10,000th bris, Arizona mohel is retiring
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (95+ words) Tidbits is a bi-weekly feature of easy news briefs in Yiddish that you can listen to or read, or both! If you read the article and don't know a word, just click on it and the translation appears. You'll also…...