JTA
By JTA
-
Fast Forward Jewish Democrats Ask President Obama To Lighten Up Rhetoric in Feud With Benjamin Netanyahu
Some Jewish House Democrats called on President Barack Obama to tamp down the rhetoric against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel. The Congress members issued the demand last week at a meeting with deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes, Politico reported Sunday. The meeting was the latest in a series of regular briefings that Rhodes…
-
Fast Forward Virginia Bar Group Slammed for Scrapping Israel Trip
The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington and B’nai B’rith International condemned the Virginia State Bar for canceling its legal seminar in Jerusalem. “It’s a reprehensible decision,” the JCRC’s executive director, Ron Halber, told the Washington Jewish Week on Monday. “It’s based on politics. It’s not based on logic. And it contravenes the spirit…
-
Fast Forward Were Paintball Attacks on Jews Hate Crimes?
New York police are investigating whether two incidents in which Jews were struck with paint were hate crimes. Two Jewish teens reported being struck with paint Saturday night, and on March 22 a Jewish man reported that someone threw paint at him or shot him with a paintball gun, CBS New York reported. No one…
-
Fast Forward Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Compares President Obama to Haman
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, a prominent American-Israeli Orthodox rabbi, compared President Barack Obama to Haman, the villain of the Purim story. Riskin, the longtime chief rabbi of Efrat, a West Bank settlement in the Gush Etzion bloc, made the comparison during a speech at the Jerusalem Great Synagogue, The Jerusalem Post reported. “The president of the…
-
Fast Forward Muhlenberg Hillel Leader Quits Over Israel Rules
Caroline Dorn resigned as the student president of the Hillel chapter at Muhlenberg College to protest Hillel International’s restrictions against hosting speakers who are critical of Israel. Dorn said she stepped down because the Hillel at the Allentown, Pa., college was barred by Hillel International rules from hosting four Jewish civil rights veterans currently on…
-
Fast Forward Loyola Student Senate Votes for Israel Divestment
The Student Government of Loyola University in Chicago narrowly passed a resolution to divest from companies that do business with Israel. The vote on March 26 was 15 to 15, with two abstentions. The speaker of the student senate broke the tie with a vote in favor of the resolution. More than an hour of…
-
Fast Forward Hillary Clinton Calls for Return to ‘Constructive’ Israel Ties
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the relationship between the United States and Israel should return to a “constructive footing.” Clinton, who is expected to announce her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for the 2016 presidential election, made the comments in a telephone conversation with Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of Conference of Presidents…
-
Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Incidents Rise by 21%, ADL Says
Anti-Semitic incidents in the United States rose by 21 percent in 2014, according to the Anti-Defamation League’s annual audit of anti-Semitism. The organization counted 912 anti-Semitic incidents last year, up from 751 in 2013, with the period surrounding last summer’s Gaza war seeing a surge of incidents. The tally included 36 cases of assault or…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Opinion A Reichstag fire is blazing in Trump’s America and we know exactly who is fanning the flames
- 2
Culture Is Netflix’s new show the most Jewish cartoon ever?
- 3
Opinion Trump’s attacks on the Smithsonian come straight from the Nazi playbook
- 4
Opinion Following Laura Loomer’s lead, the US is repeating an egregious Holocaust-era mistake
In Case You Missed It
-
Opinion Trump’s attack on George Soros is ludicrous. It also endangers Jews (and everyone else)
-
Culture The Borscht Belt was a haven for Jews — and for crossdressers
-
Opinion American Jewish institutions have defied immoral Israeli policy before. They need to do it again
-
Yiddish World Yizkor books and yentas: When New York City was a Yiddish town
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
