Holocaust

The museum will remain on the property free of charge. Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum (photo credit: Courtesy) The Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum avoided closure on Wednesday after the City Property Committee of the Riga City Council formed a new land lease agreement allowing the museum to…

Fans of “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” have raised over $50,000 for Jeanise Jones, the grandmother who appears in the film and is hired to babysit Borat’s daughter, Tutar, after Jones revealed that she was compensated only $3,600 for her time. According to a GoFundMe started for Jones by her pastor, she…

When Ryan Sherriff took the mound for the Tampa Bay Rays over the weekend, he joined an exclusive club of Jewish pitchers in the World Series. By JOSHUA HALICKMAN  OCTOBER 27, 2020 16:23 TAMPA BAY RAYS relief pitcher Ryan Sherriff pitches against the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 2020 World…

How do you solve a problem like Martin Amis? Like Maria from The Sound of Music, he’s a clown to his detractors and a musician to his fans—the music of the well-tuned sentence, that is, and the clownery of the literary egomaniac. I’ve already checked to see whether any other…

The museum will decide whether or not it can accept the terms of the new lease by Oct. 27. By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ/JTA  OCTOBER 22, 2020 05:11 A model of the Great Choral Synagogue in Riga is pictured in the Ghetto museum in Riga February 27, 2015. Decades after destruction by…

Who is Jeremy England? There are many answers to that question. He is a biochemistry graduate who became an MIT assistant professor in physics when he was 29 years old. He is an ordained rabbi. He is the grandson of Holocaust survivors. He is a descendant of the first life-form…

Ahead of the new “Borat” film’s Oct. 23 release on Amazon Prime, Sacha Baron Cohen showed up on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” in character as Borat, where in addition to showing off a clip from the film, he attempted to administer an extremely incorrect kind of coronavirus test to Kimmel. He…

John Olive spent the bulk of this week’s new episode of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight” discussing some of the disturbing potential ramifications of Donald Trump’s plan to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization. But before diving into the deep end, Oliver cracked some jokes about some of…

Facebook’s moderation policies continue to rile up lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, with Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri on Saturday becoming the first GOP senator to openly call for the breakup of the company. “I’ve had enough. Break Facebook up already. It’s time,” Hawley tweeted. “I’ve fought…

Producers of Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm” and Amazon Studios have been sued by the estate of Holocaust survivor Judith Dim Evans, who says she was interviewed by the star under false pretenses and appears in the film without her permission, despite that Baron Cohen broke character and revealed…