(JTA) — A 19-year-old American-Israeli man was convicted of making hundreds of bomb threats to Jewish community centers and Jewish schools in the United States, and airlines. Michael Kadar, who holds dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship and whose name is barred from publication in Israel, was convicted Thursday in Tel Aviv District Court on several counts including…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Britain’s Prince William placed a note between the stones of the Western Wall and spent several moments there in prayer as part of a visit to the Old City of Jerusalem. The Duke of Cambridge visits the Western Wall. pic.twitter.com/sNQrAusPzh — Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) June 28, 2018 The prince wore a blue…
President Donald Trump has privately predicted he will appoint four justices by the end of his first term, according to sources who’ve spoken with him on the subject. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who is 85, now tops his list, following the announcement Wednesday that Anthony Kennedy is retiring. “It’s all about the numbers for him,” one…
New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon refused to say if she wants greater state oversight of yeshiva education. Nixon, who has promoted her experience as an education activist during her campaign, dodged the question while commuters darted around her during a Wednesday press conference at the Union Square subway station in Manhattan. The former “Sex…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Britain’s Prince William described the Palestinian Authority as a country while making the first visit by a member of the royal family there. “I’m very glad our two countries work so closely together and have had success stories with education and relief work in the past, so long may that continue,” the prince…
Ivanka Trump reportedly donated $50,000 to an anti-LGBTQ church in Texas, after hearing about its efforts to help immigrant children at the southern border, CBN News reported. Trump’s donation to the Prestonwood Baptist Church was made before her father suspended his administration’s family separation policy last week. The church’s lead pastor, Jack Graham, had announced…
Updated, June 28 A new network of community mikvehs, or ritual baths, will host an inaugural summer gathering this August, bringing together established organizations and those interested in starting a new mikveh program. A large majority of mikvehs in the United States are operated by the Orthodox community, for whom ritual purification is commanded for…
The Davidson College men’s basketball team will fly to Poland on Saturday to visit Auschwitz, in hopes of keeping alive the tragic memory of the Holocaust and its victims. The four-day trip grew out of an invitation from a Davidson alumna involved with the Maimonides Institute for Medicine, Ethics and the Holocaust, a non-profit focused…
The raucous victory party for congressional giant-killer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez featured a who’s who of progressive New York politics, including actor-turned-gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon. It also included a man who has run for office on the platform of fighting “greedy Jewish landlords.” Notice the guy behind her, in the purple shirt? It’s Thomas Lopez-Pierre, Mark Levine’s…
Republican Iowa congressman Steve King has refused to apologize for retweeting a British neo-Nazi earlier this month. King, who represents Iowa’s 4th district, told CNN on Tuesday that he didn’t realize he had retweeted a message by Mark Collett, a former chairman of the youth wing of the far-right British National Party and an associate…
(JTA) — A progressive Democrat in New York who called Israel’s killing of violent Palestinian protesters on the Gaza border a “massacre” scored a major upset over incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley in a contentious party primary. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 28, defeated Crowley, 56, by a margin of 58-42 percent in Tuesday’s election, toppling a lawmaker who…
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