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Patriots Owner Funds NFL TV Ad About Standing Up ‘Against
Jewish Hate’
Robert Kraft, the New England Patriots owner who donates heavily to Jewish
causes, funded an advertisement that ran during Oct. 30’s NFL game between
the Patriots and the New York Jets urging NFL fans to “stand up against Jewish
hate,” JTA.org reported.

The ad aired during a weekend in which NBA star Kyrie Irving shared a link to
an antisemitic movie online and the message “Kanye is right about the jews” was
projected at TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville, Florida, during a college football
game between the University of Florida and the University of Georgia.

“There are less than 8 million Jewish people in this country. Fewer than are
watching this game,” read Kraft’s 30-second ad, which featured simple white text
on a black background, set to ambient music. “They need you to add your voice.”
It was produced jointly by the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism and Kraft’s
foundation. Evangelical GOP House Candidate in Texas Wrote a Novel About
Anne Frank Finding Jesus
The Republican nominee for Congress in Texas’ 7th district is a self-proclaimed
history buff, but his take on Anne Frank is not one that most historians would
endorse, JTA.org reported.

Johnny Teague, an evangelical pastor and business owner who won the district’s
primary in March, in 2020 published “The Lost Diary of Anne Frank,” a novel
imagining the famous Jewish Holocaust victim’s final days in the Auschwitz and
Bergen-Belsen concentration camps as she might have written them in her diary.

The kicker: In Teague’s telling, Frank seems to embrace Christianity just before
she is murdered by the Nazis.

Published by Las Vegas-based publisher Histria Books, the speculative book
attempts to faithfully extend the writing style of Frank’s “original” diary entries
into her experiences in the camps: it “picks up where her original journey left off,”
according to the promotional summary.

Teague claims to have interviewed Holocaust survivors and visited the Anne
Frank House, multiple concentration camps and the major Holocaust museums
in Washington, D.C., and Israel as part of his research.

“I would love to learn more about Jesus and all He faced in His dear life as a
Jewish teacher,” Teague’s Anne Frank character muses at one point, saying that
her dad had tried to get her a copy of the New Testament.

Reform Rabbi to be Knighted by Pope Francis
A. James Rudin, a leading Reform rabbi and educator and the longtime director
of interreligious affairs at the American Jewish Committee, will be knighted
under the Papal Order of St. Gregory for his work on Catholic-Jewish relations,
JTA.org reported.

He will become the ninth Jewish person to receive the honor in the Order’s
nearly 200-year history. Other Jews so knighted include Walter Annenberg,
the philanthropist and creator of TV Guide; the prominent Conservative rabbi
Mordecai Waxman; Argentine interfaith advocate Rabbi León Klenicki; Rabbi
David Rosen of the AJC; and various philanthropists, businesspeople and musi-
cians with Jewish ancestry.

The honor recognizes people whose work has supported the Catholic Church,
which can include Jews focused on interfaith projects.

Voter Turnout Surpasses 70% in Israeli Election
Some 4,843,023 people, or 71.3% of eligible voters, cast ballots in Nov. 1's elections
for the 25th Knesset, according to the Israeli Central Elections Committee, the
highest turnout on Election Day since 2015, JNS.org reported.

A total of 6,788,804 people were eligible to vote at more than 12,000 stations
set up across the country.

The high turnout reflects the electorate’s trust in the Jewish state’s democratic
system, Israeli President Isaac Herzog said. JE
— Compiled by Andy Gotlieb
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