🎤 Netflix ordered a comedy special from Tony Hinchcliffe, the comic who last fall made racist, sexist and antisemitic jokes at a Madison Square Garden Trump rally. This appears to be part of a larger push by Hollywood to reach Trump supporters. (CNN, Wall Street Journal)
✍️ Jewish groups are condemning a ruling by a Belgian court that acquitted a writer who wrote that he wanted to “ram a knife down Jews’ throats.” (Politico)
🛁 An archaeology professor and his students have discovered what they believe is an ancient Jewish ritual bath in Italy, potentially the oldest ever found in Europe. (New York Times)
On the food front…
🤔 Isaac’s Bagels in North Carolina pulled out of a Jewish food festival because of the organizer’s support for Israel. That prompted criticism — including from Jessica Seinfeld — and regret set in. (JTA)
💰 Burglars ransacked a kosher pizza shop in Los Angeles, rifling through the register and stealing a safe, and then broke into the pharmacy next door. “They hit the pharmacy every six months, looking for drugs and stuff like that,” said Mark Douek of Pizza Mark. (KTLA)
🍩 The owner of three Las Vegas Krispy Kreme locations has opted to no longer be under kosher supervision. (YeahThatsKosher)
🥚 Coming tomorrow: You think egg prices are high now? We’ll take a look back at how the Forward covered egg rations of the past.
Transitions ► Karen Dawkins, who launched the Jewish Press of Tampa Bay in 1986 with her late husband, Jim, is retiring from the newspaper … Rabbi Yosef Blau, who has been at Yeshiva University for 48 years (including during my one semester there in 1994), is making aliyah.
Shiva call ► Stanley Jaffe, a movie producer who brought us Kramer vs. Kramer, Fatal Attraction and The Bad News Bears, died at 84.
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