Israel’s main public sector union called off a general strike planned for Wednesday in protest at construction-site deaths, saying the government had agreed to approve safety standards. The strike would have shut down airports, banks and government offices. A Finance Ministry spokeswoman confirmed that a deal had been reached in negotiations with the union on…
Matt Brooks, director of the Republican Jewish Coalition, denounced ads by Republicans featuring Jewish candidates holding fistfuls of cash. There have been at least five such ads, both as TV spots as mailers, that have been deployed this election cycle. “This crap must end!” Brooks wrote on Twitter. As I’ve commented repeatedly. This is vile…
A massive space object spotted by scientists last year — and dubbed Oumuamua — could be an alien spaceship, two Jewish Harvard scientists say, NBC reported. An a forthcoming paper to be published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Shmuel Bialy and Abraham Loeb write that Oumuamua “may be a fully operational probe sent intentionally to…
Jewish billionaire Paul Singer’s foundation plans to donate $1 million to security upgrades at New York City synagogues in the wake of last month’s massacre in a Pittsburgh synagogue, the New York Post reported. The funds will cover safety reviews, security camera installation, security barriers and other security additions, depending on the synagogue’s location and…
A county commissioner from the Portland area offered a half-baked apology for sending out a campaign mailer that featured a swastika just days before the midterm elections, the Willamette Week reported. Last week, Bob Terry, a commissioner for a district in the western part of the Portland metro area, sent out a mailer attacking his…
A rash of anti-Semitic political advertisements targeted Jewish Democratic elected officials in the wake of the Pittsburgh massacre, according to a report in the Washington Post. The Post cites advertisements in Connecticut, California, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania that appear to use anti-Semitic tropes to attack Jewish politicians. “What’s stunning is that these are old images…
Correction Appended November 6 has finally arrived after an long, loud and politically fraud midterm season. Many Democrats are hoping there will be a “blue wave” that could help them take over the House and possibly even the Senate. Jewish candidates, however, stand an even better chance of improving their share of the House and…
(JTA) — Pope Francis lamented anti-Semitic attacks and spread a message to ban the anti-Semitism during an audience with Jewish emissaries. The Pope on Monday received for first time delegates of the World Congress of Mountain Jews at the Vatican. Two weeks after the attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue that killed 11 worshippers Francis said in…
When the deadliest attack against the American Jewish community in history struck the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh on Saturday morning, 30 members of the community knew they needed to get to the crime scene immediately. These 15 men and 15 women were not rushing to the scene as police or paramedics. They are…
After a campaign sign for Democratic congressional candidate Perry Gershon was found defaced with a swastika, incumbent Rep. Lee Zeldin suggested it was the work of Gershon’s own team, News 12 Long Island reported. Gershon, who is Jewish, said other signs were recently vandalized with phrases like “baby killer” and “gay lover.” Zeldin, also Jewish,…
Fox News Channel regularly refers Jewish billionaire philanthropist George Soros, often peddling conspiracy theories about his influence — but the conservative station won’t allow a Soros representative to refute the claims on air, one of his top aides told CNN. Patrick Gaspard, president of Soros’s Open Society Foundations, told CNN on Sunday that Fox News…
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