In addition to his scientific research, Albert Einstein also famously advocated for civil rights — but a series of travel diaries recently published in English for the first time revealed that the physicist held racist and xenophobic views, CNN reported. The writings record Einstein’s experiences in the Middle East and Asia between October 1922 and…
New York’s attorney general sued Ivanka Trump along with her father President Trump and his namesake foundation, saying the nonprofit should be dissolved after more than a decade of illegal conduct, including support for Trump’s 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. Barbara Underwood, the attorney general, accused the Donald J. Trump Foundation and its directors of conducting…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A group of Palestinians that claims to be behind the initiative to send incendiary kites and balloons from Gaza into southern Israel said it would launch 5,000 of the arson tools on Friday. The group, which calls itself the kite builders unit, also said at a news conference Thursday afternoon in central…
(JTA) — A Belgian public radio station kicked out its studio a rapper who on air inveighed against Israel and “Zionists” while introducing a song whose lyrics speak of “money-loving Jews running after each cent.” The incident occurred last month at the Antwerp studio of a department of the VRT public broadcaster during an interview…
(JTA) — Rosanne Barr said her tweet about former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett was not racist, but was critical of anti-Semitism and the Iran deal. “Rod Serling wrote Planet of The Apes. It was about anti-semitism. That is what my tweet referred to-the anti semitism of the Iran deal. Low IQ ppl can think whatever…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Trump administration is ready to take on claims by houses of worship that they face discrimination in seeking building permits from local authorities, Attorney General Jeff Sessions told an Orthodox Jewish conclave. On Wednesday, Sessions told the annual Orthodox Union Washington conference that he was establishing a program called the A…
Four nationally known scientists are recommending new testing at a popular Los Angeles-area Jewish camp to determine if contaminants at a nearby former nuclear testing site have posed health risks to past and current campers, NBC Los Angeles reported. The scientists independently reached that conclusion after reviewing various reports of past testing at Camp Alonim…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Corey Stewart, a politician with associations with neo-Confederates, the “alt-right” and a well-known anti-Semite, is the Republican nominee for Senate in Virginia. The Republican establishment battled hard to thwart Stewart in the three-way primary race Tuesday to decide who faces Democratic incumbent Tim Kaine in November, backing State Delegate Nick Freitas. Stewart…
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) has continued his affinity for espousing alt-right ideology, this time retweeting a prominent British white supremacist, HuffPost reported Tuesday. Mark Collett, a self-described “Nazi sympathizer,” originally tweeted out a Breitbart article about opposition to immigration in Italy. King chimed in, writing, “Europe is waking up…Will America…in time?” Europe is waking up…Will…
Michael Cohen is likely to cooperate with federal prosecutors, ABC News reported Wednesday. Cohen’s attorneys have until Friday to finish their review of over 3.7 million documents seized from his home, office and hotel room in April. The lawyers are expected to leave his case going forward, ABC reported, without elaborating. It’s not clear what…
(JTA) — A Jewish community mikvah near Boston says its supporters are rallying around it after the mikvah announced that a former staffer misused funds and engaged in other financial improprieties. In an email sent May 18 to supporters of the Mayyim Hayyim Living Waters Community Mikveh, officials of the mikvah said the estimated financial loss…
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