White supremacist arrested for threatening Pittsburgh synagogue trial jurors: Hardy Carroll Lloyd, who was charged on Thursday, has long been known to the FBI. The convicted felon was sent to prison in 2019 for urging “lone wolves” to kill Jews, and has been free since 2020. He could now face up to 35 years in prison. Read the story ➤

Obituary | She survived the Holocaust, and her book on a wartime rebellion inspired the Daniel Craig film Defiance: Nechama Tec, a famed sociologist who died this month at 92, “saw European Jewish survival in the tragic 20th century as a matter of exceptionalism,” writes Benjamin Ivry. She also observed that while in ghettos and concentration camps, Jewish women typically showed more psychological fortitude than their male counterparts. “However tough the circumstances, Jewish women instinctively carried on with their traditional role of trying to keep the family alive.” Read the story ➤

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How a scandalous Jewish no-goodnik captured the imagination of the world: Salome, the seductress known for requesting the head of John the Baptist, has long fascinated the Christian world while occasionally inspiring its antisemitism. But a new study notes how Jews were not immune to the scandalous story, going so far as to translate Oscar Wilde’s play of the Jewish princess into Yiddish. She appealed to performers as varied as Fanny Brice, Ida Rubinstein and Sarah Bernhardt. Read the story ➤

And one more: Iran’s Jewish languages are dying. Can intrepid linguists save them before it’s too late?

On this day in history (1942): Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr received a patent for developing a frequency-hopping system to keep radio systems from jamming. The technology, which Lamarr invented alongside the avant-garde composer George Antheil, was later crucial in developing GPS, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth systems. Although Lamarr, a Jewish immigrant from Vienna, hid her religious identity in Hollywood, she privately helped seek reparations for Jews. 

Sunday is the third anniversary of the announcement of the Abraham Accords.

Forget Barbie and Oppenheimer. The new movie everyone will be talking about is Adam Sandler’s comedy, You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, which debuts Aug. 25 on Netflix. Based on a popular 2005 novel, the film stars Sandler’s real-life daughter Sunny as the bat mitzvah girl and was shot over six weeks last summer at Congregation Beth Tzedec in Toronto. Watch the trailer above.

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