Pretty soon we can write the Jews out of the story altogether! :fozzie_wocka_wocka:

"On the occasion of International #Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Center for the Study of #European #Jewry at Tel Aviv University on Tuesday published a new report examining how the Holocaust has been commemorated worldwide in recent decades. The findings point to a clear global trend: an increasing number of countries are placing the story of the Righteous Among the Nations at the center of Holocaust remembrance.

The 104-page report, titled For a Noble Cause, has received wide international attention. Its central article argues that over the past two decades, a trend that intensified in the past year, Holocaust commemoration has increasingly focused on museums and exhibitions dedicated to non-#Jews who risked their lives, and often those of their families, to save Jews from extermination."

https://www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world/article/rkxoyzil11l

"There’s an old British expression, “a curate’s egg.” The story goes that a couple once hosted their vicar for dinner and served him an egg, not realizing that it wasn’t very fresh. When they asked him how he liked it, the vicar, a tactful person, said: “Parts of it were excellent.”

The 1936 #Yiddish #film #AlKhet (I Have Sinned), digitally restored by the National Center for #Jewish #Film and screened this week at the #NewYork Jewish #FilmFestival, is a curate’s egg.

On the one hand, it’s incredibly primitive, and not because of its age. Its #story, about the ill-starred romance of a Jewish military officer and what happens 20 years later, is nothing with nothing; the second half is shamelessly melodramatic, and the pace is slow, too.

On the other hand, the legendary comic duo Dzigan and Schumacher, in their film debut, are superb; the rich #Polish Yiddish is delicious, and as a snapshot of mid-1930’s Polish #Jewry, it’s extraordinary."

https://forward.com/yiddish-world/799839/restored-yiddish-film-i-have-sinned-pre-war-polish-jewry-holocaust-shtetl/

Trump is now demanding lists of Jews. The University of Pennsylvania faculty is condemning the Trump administration’s demand for “lists of Jews” at their school. Hitler also demanded lists of Jews from schools. A minimum of 70% of American Jews voted against Trump in all 3 elections he ran in. He seems to wants what he calls “retribution,” and has repeatedly called out Jews that didn’t vote for him. #JewishVote #Jewry https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/13/upenn-trump-jews-list

"Attacks on #synagogues are treated as part of a broader problem, but all too often, attacks on #Jewish-owned, #kosher, and #Israeli #restaurants are treated as isolated incidents.

Unlike synagogues, #schools, and #communitycenters, Jewish or Israeli-related restaurants and #cafes have no protection. They are no less visible targets, representing #Jewry in broader society, but lack the armed guards or police protection that have become ubiquitous across #Europe and #NorthAmerica. Private citizens are left to bear the cost, having their dreams crushed by constant #protests and #vandalism."

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-883154

"From a distance, the men in those fur hats look like representatives of #Satmar, the largest #Hasidic community in the world. Their cadence, clothing, borrowed quotations and posturing suggest it.

The truth lives elsewhere. #NetureiKarta is not Satmar. Neturei Karta is a distortion of Satmar, a parody wearing its costume. This distinction matters. A community with deep roots and complex thought is being slandered in #London streets by men who share nothing with it except a wardrobe.

To explain that, I needed to give [my daughter] the outline of the man whose name they exploit, #Rabbi #JoelTeitelbaum.

Rabbi #Teitelbaum never operated as a political actor in the modern sense. He survived the collapse of #European #Jewry. He rebuilt communities from nothing and shaped a Hasidic world that regained strength after devastation. His philosophy rested on one conviction: #Jews must not force redemption through political sovereignty before the #messianicera."

https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/386192/the-hasid-in-a-keffiyeh/

Fedistralia is going to be up in arms this week.

"#Australia’s peak #Jewish organisations have welcomed the federal government’s decision to establish a #CommonwealthRoyalCommission into #antisemitism and the circumstances leading to the #BondiBeach #terrorist attack. They described the move as a necessary national response to unprecedented levels of hatred directed at Jewish #Australians.

The president of the Executive Council of #Australian #Jewry, #DanielAghion, said the government had “made the right decision” in heeding sustained calls from the Jewish community, victims’ families and a broad cross section of Australian society.

"We are especially grateful to the eminent artists, lawyers, business leaders, sporting legends, political figures, women’s organisations and other groups who added their powerful voices to this call,” Aghion said."

https://www.jwire.com.au/jewish-community-welcomes-announcement-of-royal-commission-into-antisemitism/

This.

"Before #Jews were deported to ghettos and camps, they were stripped-systematically and legally-of their economic existence. Their bank accounts were frozen, their businesses seized, their insurance policies voided, their assets transferred, catalogued, and redistributed. The genocide of #European #Jewry was preceded by one of the most comprehensive #financial expropriations in modern history.

That theft was not an afterthought. It was a prerequisite.

And it could not have occurred without #banks.

Two institutions stand at the center of this history: #DeutscheBank, the financial backbone of #Nazi #Germany, and the #Swiss #banking system that later consolidated into #UBS, which became the world’s most sophisticated custodian of stolen #Jewish wealth.

What followed the war-decades of denial, obstruction, and only grudging restitution..."

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/419362

"The autumn of #1938 was a grim time for the #Jews. The #Nazis’ #Kristallnacht #pogrom had devastated #German #Jewry. The #Evianconference, which was supposed to find havens for #Jewish #refugees, had proven to be a farce. And #Britain was preparing to shut the doors of #Palestine.

But on #Thanksgiving Day, one courageous #US government official proposed a bold rescue plan, offering the Jewish people a glimmer of hope and reason to give thanks.

The plan’s target: #Alaska."

https://boulderjewishnews.org/2025/a-thanksgiving-plan-to-save-europes-jews-in-1938/

"Earlier this month, the #NewYorkMagazine cultural spinoff #Vulture #published an #article by Andrew Ridker, “A New #Jewish Plotline”, asking whether Jewish #writers should tackle different stories after what happened in #Gaza—stop portraying themselves as victims, and address the fact that #Jews are broadly affluent and powerful. But Phoebe Maltz Bovy questions the logic of this article, as it conflates broad critiques of #American #Jewry with #literature.

To help unpack what it means to #write #Jewishly in a #publishing world that often feels hostile to Jews, we’re joined by Chaya Lauer, who brings a reader’s perspective to the debate and maps a lineage from Philip Roth to contemporary voices to show how #Jewishliterature is plural, not prescriptive. She pushes back on the idea that #Jewishwriters must answer for actions done “in their name,” calling out the dangerous stereotype of collective culpability."

https://thecjn.ca/opinion/do-jewish-writers-speak-for-all-jews-answer-obviously-not/

"The #tour follows a chronological tale of #Jewish life in #York. We start at Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate to set the scene of Jewish life in #Medieval York.

Here, we introduce some key figures at the centre of anti-Jewish violence that started in #London, in late #1189, before making its way north. Putting ourselves in the shoes of the Jewish community, we replicate their journey to #CliffordsTower, the site of the #1190massacre. This is the most significant Jewish site in York, which saw the complete annihilation of York’s 150 #Jews, the majority of whom chose #suicide in order to protect their faith and dignity from the mob.

From here, we explore the lesser known revitalisation of the Jewish community in the #13thcentury. This story is shared at the medieval #synagogue on Coney Street. Next, at the Norman House, we cover the build-up to the national #expulsion (#1290) and official return of #Jewry in the #17thcentury."

https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/25638161.why-set-jewish-history-walking-tours-york/

"#Jewish individuals and communities seeking to discover more about ancestors in #Lithuania will now have #online access to a wide range of previously unread source material, thanks to a new #AI programme launched by #Vilnius #University.

The software tool boasting a 95% accuracy rate, is known as the #Vilne-#Yiddish model. It assesses handwritten Yiddish texts and was developed by Dr Sergii Gurbych, a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for the Study of East #European #Jewry.

It uses #handwriting styles from autobiographies written in the 1930s, which were sent to #YIVO – the #Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institut – from across Eastern and Central #Europe."

https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/vilnius-university-creates-new-ai-tool-recognising-handwritten-yiddish-texts/

«The resurgence of the 27-yr-old #NickFuentes, who has argued that #immigrants & “organized #Jewry” are conspiring to extinguish the #White #Race, has set off bitter infighting among #conservative influencers over whether he should b tolerated or denounced. For Donald #Trump’s #MAGA movement, which has decried what they say is the overzealous policing of #speech, Fuentes’s newfound prominence presents a tough question: Is there such a thing as “too #extreme” anymore?»

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/11/08/nick-fuentes-tucker-carlson-hate-speech/

When someone quotes words from any #Australian #Jewish organisation, it might help to know where that organisation fits both politically and in terms of Australian #Jewry: https://thejewishindependent.com.au/who-speaks-for-australian-jews None speak for all Australian #Jews. Only one speaks for Australian Jewish organisations

"In the late 19th and early 20th century, the majority of Haredi #Jews in Palestine and around the world opposed Zionism and the establishment of the state of Israel. […]. Many have come to accommodate the state’s existence, moving further to the right and, in recent years, embracing the most radical forms of territorial maximalism."
Molly Lipson: https://vashtimedia.com/2023/12/29/formats/the-pickle/neturei-karta-not-your-allies-anti-zionist-jews/

#farRight #reaction #revisionism #HolocaustDenial #Diaspora #Haredi #Haredim #Hasidic #Jewry #Judaism #antiZionism #Orthodoxy

"It appears that the New York Times manipulated a working-class Mizrahi family in the service of Israeli hasbara in order to score a journalistic achievement, which in reality is nothing more than a repetition of fake news and government propaganda."

#Mondoweiss: https://mondoweiss.net/2024/01/family-of-key-case-in-new-york-times-october-7-sexual-violence-report-renounces-story-says-reporters-manipulated-them/ @israel

#NYT #hasbara #scoop #fakeNews #propaganda #postFactual #lies #manipulation #news #media #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #terrorism #October7 #GalAbdush #systematicRape #sexualViolence #warRape #Mizrahi #ethnicity #Jewry #israel #Gettleman

I seldom paint with a broad brush. #TheChristians. #WASP. #TheJews. #Jewry. #TheBlacks. #Christendom. Discuss their provenance.

#ChatGPT #PBR fueled #Goyim #Jewry #Shakespeare

📢Out Now in OA: 'The Last Years of #Polish #Jewry, Volume 1: At the Edge of the Abyss: Essays, 1927–33' by Yankev Leshchinsky, ed. by Robert Brym, trans. by Eli Jany and Robert Brym.

#Ukrainian-born #YankevLeshchinsky (1876–1966) was the leading scholarly and journalistic analyst of #EasternEuropean #Jewish socioeconomic and political life from the 1920s to the 1950s. Known as “the dean of Jewish sociologists” and [...] “the father of Jewish demography,” #Leshchinsky published a series of insightful and moving essays in #Yiddish on #Polish #Jewry between 1927 and 1937.

Despite heightened interest in interwar #Jewish communities in #Poland in recent years, these essays have never been translated into English. 'The Last Years of #Polish #Jewry' helps to rectify this situation by translating some of #Leshchinsky’s key essays. A thoughtful Introduction by Robert Brym provides the context of the author’s life and work.

Access this title for free or get a copy at https://openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0341

Ancient DNA recovered from a German cemetery has opened a window into the history of today’s largest Jewish population.

https://t.co/aAjLS5lv2t

#LongReads #Judaism #Jewry @mazeldon

I thought this was a beautiful picture from #Jerusalem:
Two young boys participating in the #Sigd festivities stand with bowed heads in front of the #Kesim (religious leader of #Ethiopian #Jewry) to receive a blessing.