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Recovered from coronavirus in prison, Harvey Weinstein now faces new charges By Marcy Oster (JTA)—Harvey Weinstein has been charged with a new felony sexual assault count by the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office. The charge, filed Friday, accuses the former Hollywood producer of assaulting a woman at a Beverly Hills hotel in May 2010, in an incident that falls just within California’s 10-year statute of limitations. Weinstein, 68, is currently serving a sentence of up to 23 years in New York after being convicted in February of rape and s... Full story
By Jackson Richman (JNS)-Aron Bielski is the youngest and last living member of the Bielski brigade, which he founded along with three of his brothers. Their activities have become widely known as one of the largest partisan groups that rescued Jews during the Holocaust. He was born on July 21, 1927, into the family of David and Beila Bielski, who had 10 sons and two daughters, in what is today Belarus. According to Aron Bielski, they were the only known Jewish family in the Belarusian village... Full story
(JTA)-Poland's ruling party took a stand on Wednesday against a far-right push to stop the restitution of property owned by Jews and others before the Holocaust. Far-right activists had gathered enough signatures to present a draft resolution to the Sejm, the lower house of Polish parliament, that would prohibit the redistribution of "heirless property"- property that belonged to private individuals, many of them Jews, who were killed in the Holocaust and whose heirs, if they exist, never filed... Full story
"Watch this series!" everyone advises on social media. "Read these books!" others exhort. As a work-from-home mom whose preschooler's distance-learning schedule from her Jewish school requires constant supervision-exactly why are they still teaching about Passover every day if we can barely have a Seder?!-my main response to all these recommendations is, when? When do people have time to commit to a series, a novel, an online language course? I may be home all the time now, but I feel like I'm... Full story
