Julie Wiener
The Times of Israel
New York, NY, United States
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9 things you didn’t know about Purim
Like Halloween, Thanksgiving, and St. Patrick's day all in one, the raucous holiday also boasts some lesser-known fun facts → Read More
Was Eve Created From a Very Different Bone of Adam?
Bible scholars are not generally known for producing viral or sexy content. → Read More
Was Eve created from Adam’s penis bone?
American Jewish University professor Ziony Zevit is causing a stir with a new book suggesting that in Genesis, Eve was made from a bone in Adam’s penis, rather than his rib. → Read More
‘Rabbi for Trump’ Gets Behind The Donald on Facebook
On Facebook, there are “Rabbis for Human Rights,” “Rabbis for Bernie” and, until recently, “Rabbis for Hillary.” Now, these groups are joined by a rabbinical flag-bearer for Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump. → Read More
‘Rabbi for Trump’ backs The Donald on Facebook
Yeshiva University-educated Bernhard Rosenberg says he shares GOP frontrunner’s worries about Syrian refugees → Read More
‘Rabbi for Trump’ launches Facebook campaign for The Donald
Rabbi Bernhard Rosenberg recently started the Facebook group avowedly to win the GOP front-runner’s support for Israel. → Read More
Giant Texas Lego menorah sets unofficial record
Almost 50,000 plastic bricks, brought in by Fort Worth synagogue’s members, allows hanukkiah to rise over 16 feet → Read More
Texas synagogue’s giant Lego menorah sets unofficial record
Congregation Ahavath Sholom – a Conservative synagogue in Fort Worth – recently combined almost 50,000 of the plastic toy bricks to create a more than 16-feet-high functioning Hanukkah lamp. → Read More
Luxury Hotel Built By Mufti (Yes, That One) Named Best in Middle East
Luxury Hotel Built By Mufti (Yes, That One) Named Best in Middle East * October 22, 2015 * by Julie Wiener * Hotel This week we learned that the grand mufti of Jerusalem gave Hitler the idea for the Final Solution — or at least that Israel’s prime minister believes that. But it turns out that Palestinian nationalist Haj Amin al-Husseini was not merely a notorious anti-Zionist and anti-Semite: He was also a talented hotel builder responsible in part for the acclaimed Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem. → Read More
The mufti’s hotel was just ranked the best in the Middle East (yes, that mufti)
Haj Amin al-Husseini was not merely a notorious anti-Zionist and anti-Semite, he was also a talented hotel builder who worked with a Jewish engineer. → Read More
The mufti’s hotel was just ranked the best in the Middle East (yes, that mufti)
Haj Amin al-Husseini was not merely a notorious anti-Zionist and anti-Semite, he was also a talented hotel builder who worked with a Jewish engineer. → Read More
My Jewish kids are the product of intermarriage, and other reasons for hope
In a new study, 41 percent of children of intermarriage said they were raised exclusively Jewish – a statistic that can be described as a plurality or minority depending on your outlook. → Read More
9 more Jewish symbols UNESCO should claim for other religions
On Monday, news broke that UNESCO, the United Nations cultural agency, is to vote on a Palestinian-backed...... → Read More
Is it really a shock that 1/3 of Americans wouldn’t hide Jews?
I’m more surprised that a whopping two-thirds claim they would take that risk, writes JTA’s Julie Wiener. → Read More
Chicken-swinging ritual spurs two lawsuits
Kapparot, the pre-Yom Kippur folk custom of swinging a chicken around one’s head as a way of purging sin, is one of those Jewish practices that doesn’t always, ahem, dovetail with 21st-century mores. The ritual has often encountered clucks of disapproval, and this High Holiday season is no different. In the United States this year kapparot has been the subject of at least two lawsuits: an… → Read More
Yom Kippur chicken-swinging ritual spurs not one, but two lawsuits
An activist behind one suit irritated kapparot practitioner enough to get a young Hasidic man to “flip her the bird” — though he held firmly onto the chicken. → Read More
The Jews who ruled the news in 5775
From the basketball to supreme courts, from peeping rabbis to whistleblowing ambassadors, a heap of headline-grabbing personalities → Read More
A shotgun (literally) Jewish wedding and 2 lawsuits
June wedding at Waldorf Astoria interrupted when pistol belonging to cousin of groom went off; both now suing → Read More
A shotgun (literally) Jewish wedding and two lawsuits
The groom’s cousin, who accidentally fired his gun at the pre-ceremony cocktail reception, says the hotel should pay half of whatever he owes the couple for their cancelled wedding. → Read More
The top 13 Jewish newsmakers of 5775
Love them or hate them, these prominent Jews made headlines this year. → Read More