A day after Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu orchestrated the return of the supporters of the racist rabbi Meir Kahane to the Israeli Knesset, the American Jewish Committee, a major establishment Jewish organization, condemned the maneuver. “The views of Otzma Yehudit are reprehensible,” the AJC said in a statement, tweeted at the end of the…
Updated February 22 A request to form a Jewish club at a British university was only approved by a narrower-than-expected vote of the student body, with more than 200 people voting against it. The proposed Jewish Society at the University of Essex had to be approved by the student union, which had recently approved clubs…
(JTA) — An Israeli spacecraft is officially on its way to the moon. The lunar lander built by SpaceIL, an Israeli organization hoping to send a craft to the moon, successfully launched aboard a SpaceX rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida Thursday night. If it reaches the moon and lands successfully, it will make Israel…
A merger between two top-polling centrist parties is posing a major challenge to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ten-year hold on the office, the Times of Israel reported. After talks that lasted through the night, Yair Lapid and Benny Gantz agreed that their two parties — Yesh Atid and Israel Resilience, respectively — would merge…
The Israeli right-wing party Jewish Home merged on Wednesday with a small extremist party led by followers of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, all but guaranteeing Knesset seats for the extremists. Kahane’s party was banned from running in Israeli elections in 1988 for racism, then banned entirely in 1994 under anti-terrorism laws. Two Kahanist groups,…
Sen. Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign manager will be American Civil Liberties Union national political director Faiz Shakir, the Daily Beast reported Tuesday. The move means that Sanders, who in 2016 became the most successful Jewish presidential candidate in American history, will have his campaign steered by the first-ever Muslim presidential campaign manager. Shakir is a…
A U.S. appeals court has ruled that a billion dollar lawsuit accusing Sheldon Adelson and other major pro-Israel donors’ participation in alleged war crimes may proceed, Reuters reported. The suit, brought by Palestinian and Palestinian-American plaintiffs, alleges that Adelson and the other defendants are co-conspirators in a plot to remove non-Jews from Israel’s occupied territories…
The federal judge in Roger Stone’s case may revoke his bail Thursday after Stone published an Instagram post that appeared to feature a crosshairs near the judge’s head, Talking Points Memo reported. Stone, a longtime Donald Trump associate, was arrested last month on charges that he communicated with Wikileaks on trying to secure a cache…
(JTA) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that Brooklyn synagogues will receive more security after an attack on a Chabad synagogue on Friday night. “The NYPD is adding security to this synagogue and others nearby,” the mayor said Sunday in a tweet which linked to a local article about the attack on…
Anthony Wiener, the disgraced former Congressman and failed New York City mayoral candidate, has been released early from the federal prison where he was serving a 21 month sentence for sending obscene text messages to an underage girl. He was assigned to a halfway house in New York, according to NPR. Weiner was a brash,…
(JTA) — Bernie Sanders officially launched his second campaign for president. The 2020 campaign launched on Tuesday morning with an email to supporters and a tweet which included a nearly 2-minute campaign video and a request for support. “I’m running for president. I am asking you to join me today as part of an unprecedented…
