(JTA) — A Miami Beach man arrested on charges that he planned to burn down his condo building after receiving an eviction notice reportedly told a neighbor that one of his aims was to “kill all the Jews.” Acting on a tip, police on Thursday arrested Walter Stolper, 72, as he was wheeling two plastic…
Rich Siegel, one of the creators of The Jewish Catalog, died Wednesday evening in Los Angeles after a two-year battle with cancer. He was 70. The news was shared in an email to friends and colleagues by Barry Holtz, professor at The Jewish Theological Seminary. In 1973, Siegel, along with Michael and Sharon Strassfeld, created…
(JTA) — A soccer club in Budapest honored in one of its matches a local Holocaust victim murdered by Hungarian collaborators. The Ferencváros Torna Club dedicated a match Thursday to István Tóth. The match was against Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv at the Groupama Stadium in Budapest. The game was a tie with each team scoring…
Jared Kushner lacks the security clearance level required to review some of the government’s most sensitive secrets, according to two people familiar with his access. When White House security officials granted him permanent clearance in late May, Kushner was given only “top secret” status — a level that does not allow him to see some…
(JTA) — German police officers wrestled to the ground and arrested a middle-aged Israeli academic wearing a kippah after he was assaulted in a park allegedly by a 20-year-old man with Palestinian roots. The incident, which is believed to be an anti-Semitic assault, happened in Bonn on Wednesday, according to the DPA news agency. Police…
Novartis on Friday disputed a report from Democratic senators that concluded the Swiss drugmaker misled the public about its $1.2 million contract with a former attorney for President Donald Trump. “We disagree with the report’s conclusion that we issued a misleading public statement regarding the extent of our engagement with (Michael) Cohen,” Novartis said of…
(JTA) — The Board of Deputies of British Jews suspended for six years a senior member deputy who shared on Twitter a text describing Arabs as “the vilest of animals.” Roslyn Pine, the deputy for Finchley United Synagogue, was told she was suspended for the next two triennials after the Board’s constitution committee found that…
(JTA) — Haredi protesters burned a Jewish prayer book near the Western Wall in Jerusalem to protest the actions of female worshipers seeking greater freedom at the holy site. The incident Friday occurred as nearly 200 Women of the Wall activists arrived for their monthly prayer service at the Western Wall in celebration of the…
(JTA) — Last week, NBA star Draymond Green visited Israel, where he met with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin — and posed with a police rifle. “It’s not every day that I meet an all-star,” Rivlin joked at the time. He called watching Green play “a true pleasure” and hoped it was “only be the first…
MONTREAL (JTA) — A Quebec court ordered a group of Hasidic Jews to leave their summer homes by the end of the month because they are too noisy and slovenly. The Quebec Superior Court ruled that the approximately 50 Hasidim living in the town of Ste-Agathe-des-Monts, 60 miles north of Montreal, must leave by July 26…
Tiles with swastikas on them are found throughout a Greenwood Heights apartment complex, Brooklyn Paper reported Thursday. Other tiles in the Brooklyn Garden Apartments are emblazoned with crowns, crosses and interlocking circles. The complex was build in 1928, according to city records, and the architect’s name is illegible. Vance Koehler, a tile historian, told Brooklyn…
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