Historians will probably discuss Leonard Cohen’s death alongside two very different developments, Trump victorious and Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize win. “Everybody Knows,” one of Cohen’s bleakest songs, has instantly become an anthem for the despair felt by much of the world in the wake of the election.

Source: Why We Mourn Leonard Cohen in the Era of Trump - Culture – Forward.com

The 2016 presidential exit polling reveals little change in the political alignments of U.S. religious groups. Those who supported Republican candidates in recent elections, such as white born-again or evangelical Christians and white Catholics, strongly supported Donald Trump as well. Groups that traditionally backed Democratic candidates, including religious “nones,” Hispanic Catholics and Jews, were firmly in Hillary Clinton’s corner.

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A Muslim, an Orthodox Jew and a religious Christian walked into a room, but it wasn’t a bar and this was no joke. On the contrary, representatives from each of the Abrahamic religions had gathered during fashion month at New York University for the Meeting Through Modesty fashion symposium to discuss something they take very seriously: modest style.

Source: What Does Modest Fashion Mean? - The New York Times

Some of the children who rushed to cool off in the pool on a sunny July morning would not have attended camp together a few years ago. They lived next-door to each other, but their South Brooklyn communities often kept their distance.

Source: Jews and Muslims Form Enduring Friendships at Brooklyn Camp - Culture – Forward.com

NEW YORK (JTA) — The United Nations hosted a first-ever high-level forum on anti-Semitism, as U.N. ambassadors criticized the resurgence of anti-Jewish hatred and called for renewed efforts to stop it.

Source: Envoys Denounce Hate Comeback at First UN Forum on Anti-Semitism - Breaking News – Forward.com

AMSTERDAM — On April 30, 1941, a Jewish man here in Amsterdam wrote a desperate letter to an American friend, pleading for help emigrating to the United States.

Source: Anne Frank Today Is a Syrian Girl - The New York Times

I am not worried about the future of the Jewish people. We spend our time, our brainpower and a significant amount of money attempting to solve the problem of Jewish continuity, but I am not concerned. Judaism moves, compels and speaks to a new generation of Jewish leaders.

Source: Millennial Jews Want To Shout ‘Black Lives Matter’ — As Jews - Opinion – Forward.com

WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — Some 700 people marched through the streets of Warsaw to commemorate those who in the Warsaw Ghetto worked as doctors, nurses and medical service helping those in need and when it was necessary helping them die.

Source: 700 March in Warsaw To Commemorate Doctors and Nurses Who Worked in Ghetto - Breaking News – Forward.com

AMSTERDAM — Anne Frank is only part of the story.

Source: Beyond Anne Frank: The Dutch Tell Their Full Holocaust Story

The funeral for Elie Wiesel was a gathering of his family and close friends, held on Sunday at a synagogue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. But outside on East 62nd Street stood people, some in tears, who had never met the man who survived the Holocaust to become a clarion voice for those victims who did not.

Source: Elie Wiesel Is Recalled at Funeral for a Legacy Beyond His Moral Voice - The New York Times

I just heard the news that my teacher Elie Wiesel has left the world. For several years, I have said Havdalah at the close of the Sabbath and immediately checked the news, wondering if I would learn that this has happened. This has become a ritual of anxious anticipation, and then – every week before this one – of relief.

Source: My Last Meeting With Elie Wiesel - Opinion – Forward.com

(RNS) Elie Wiesel’s death is inspiring an outpouring of grief and gratitude from leaders in the religious and political world, and ordinary people alike. As a Jew, writer and philosopher who lost his family and nearly his own life in the Holocaust, Wiesel’s death resonated particularly among Jews around the world, and in Israel, a nation he vigorously defended.

Source: Elie Wiesel’s death prompts outpouring of tributes - SpokaneFāVS

Using advanced imaging technology, researchers in Lithuania have uncovered a tunnel that Jewish prisoners used to escape Nazi extermination pits. By doing so, they have provided physical evidence of a well-known tale of heroism during the Holocaust — known before only through the testimony of 11 Jews who escaped.

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JERUSALEM — Critics of Israel’s chief rabbinate have long complained that scores of American converts to Judaism have trouble getting approval to marry in Israel. Now, one such case with a celebrity connection could break open the rabbinate’s longstanding secrecy over which foreign rabbis are approved to conduct conversions.

Source: Who Is a Jew? Maybe Not Woman Converted by Esteemed New York Rabbi - The New York Times

A 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard was sentenced to jail in Germany on Friday by a judge who branded him a “willing and efficient henchman” in the Holocaust.

Source: ‘Justice Finally Done’ as 94-Year-Old Auschwitz Guard Gets Prison - Breaking News – Forward.com