Doubling Down on Anti-Semitic Displays, Belgian Parade Features Costumes of Orthodox Jews With Insect Bodies Caricatures of Jews, including ones depicting them as ants, were prominently displayed at this city’s annual parade. The displays came a year after the Jewish Telegraphic Agency exposed anti-Semitic displays in last year’s parade in Aalst, located about 10 miles […]
“When I found out I was an All Star, it was such an honor. I don’t just represent myself. I represent my country, Israel, the Jewish people, and the Orthodox.” Orthodox Jewish All Star, Bat-El Gatterer accepts her award on Sunday, December 2 at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall.
Jewish Teen Ping Pong Ace Can’t Go to Olympic Trials on Sabbath An Orthodox Jewish teen from Long Island made it all the way to the Olympic trials for ping pong — and now she likely can’t compete because it falls during the Sabbath. Nationally ranked Estee Ackerman, 18, is heartbroken that USA Table Tennis […]
Bat-El Gatterer is a Taekwondo athlete who got her start in the sport because it was the only available after school program in her town that fit into her mother’s work schedule. Bat-El’s observance doesn’t slow her down: “Once, in Germany, I walked three hours in the snow [on Shabbos]. And when I get to […]
‘Secular Jews Need to Stick Up for Us’: Fighting Anti-Semitism, Orthodox Search for Jewish Solidarity The gap between Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jews has surfaced in light of the recent wave of violent assaults against Orthodox Jews in Jersey City, Brooklyn and Monsey in New York’s Rockland County. “Especially in American Jewry, there is ignorance when […]
Yeshiva U Men’s Basketball Earns First National US Ranking The Yeshiva University’s men’s basketball team has been ranked in the US’s Division III Top 25 for the first time. In the D3hoops.com’s poll, released Monday, the Maccabees are ranked No. 24, one spot ahead of Brandeis, a Jewish-sponsored, nonsectarian research university. Toronto Charity Creates Robot […]
