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Philissa Cramer is editor in chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

School board members in McMinn County, Tennessee, objected to Art Spiegelman's "Maus" because of its language and images. (Photo/JTA-Philissa Cramer)
Posted inBooks

In Tennessee, iconic Holocaust graphic novel ‘Maus’ is latest victim of conservative curriculum wars

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA January 27, 2022
In a Friday night sermon on Jan. 21, 2022, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl of Manhattan's Central Synagogue spoke about her experience being contacted by the gunman who took Jews hostage at a synagogue in Texas a week earlier. (Screenshot)
Posted inU.S.

Rabbi Angela Buchdahl details call with Texas gunman in ‘Captives of Hope’ sermon

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA January 24, 2022
Texas Christian University professor Adam McKinney (upper left) organized an online vigil in support of Congregation Beth Israel of Colleyville, Texas, where an attacker took several congregants hostage, Jan. 15, 2022. (Screenshot)
Posted inReligion

As Colleyville synagogue hostage crisis unfolded, Jews turned to prayers designed for moments of danger

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA January 16, 2022January 16, 2022
Kosha Dillz (left) and Nissim Black perform across Midtown Manhattan in the video to "The Hanukkah Song 2.0." (Screenshot)
Posted inMusic

Nissim Black and Kosha Dillz, Jewish hip-hop royalty, remix Adam Sandler’s ‘Chanukah Song’ on the streets of New York

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA December 1, 2021
Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk speaking at Temple Sinai in Denver, Colorado in 1968, three years before he became the president of the Reform movement's rabbinical school. (Photo/JTA-Denver Post via Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

6 men and a ‘good old boys’ culture harmed students at Reform movement’s rabbinical school, report concludes

Philissa CramerAsaf Elia-Shalev by Philissa Cramer, Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA November 9, 2021November 10, 2021
Adrien Brody in Season 3, Episode 4 of "Succession." (Photo/Macall B. Polay-HBO)
Posted inTV & Film

Adrien Brody brings a Jewish character — and antisemitism — to HBO’s ‘Succession’

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA November 9, 2021February 13, 2023
Jewish rally-goers listen to Joseph Borgen, who was the target of an antisemitic attack, during an event denouncing antisemitism on May 27, 2021 in Cedarhurst, New York (Photo/JTA-Michael M. Santiago-Getty Images)
Posted inUncategorized, U.S.

AJC survey: Antisemitism fears prompted 4 in 10 American Jews to change their behavior last year

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA October 27, 2021October 27, 2021
Jon Hamm and Larry David discuss Yiddish words during the first episode of Season 11 of "Curb Your Enthusiasm." (Screenshot from HBO)
Posted inTV

Larry David gives Jon Hamm a Yiddish lesson in very Jewish start to new season of ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA October 25, 2021
The Texas State Capitol rotunda. Teachers in a Texas school district wondered whether "Number the Stars," a Holocaust novel, would require an "opposing" perspective under the terms of a new education law there. (Photo/JTA-Tamir Kalifa-Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

Texas official to teachers: State law requires teaching ‘opposing’ views on the Holocaust

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA October 15, 2021October 18, 2021
Rivka Taub Rivera, a physical education teacher at a New York City public school, began her maternity leave early to avoid having to comply with a vaccine mandate that went into effect for city teachers on Oct. 4, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Rivera)
Posted inU.S.

These Jewish NYC schoolteachers want a religious exemption from the city’s vaccine mandate

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA October 4, 2021

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