(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…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — El Al said its flight on which haredi Orthodox men refused to take their assigned seats next to women was delayed only minutes by the required switches, not over an hour as was reported. A passenger on the June 21 flight said in a Facebook post recounting the incident that the flight…
(JTA) — “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind,” the bestselling book by Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari, will be adapted to a movie. The film will be adapted from the book by American director Ridley Scott and British documentarian Asif Kapadia, the Hollywood Reporter announced Wednesday. The non-fiction book charts the course of the development…
Robocalls in support of California congressional candidate John Fitzgerald assert that Jews are taking over the world and ‘must be stopped.’ Robert Gammon, business development director for Telegraph Media, tweeted Tuesday that he received one of the calls from Fitzgerald, the GOP candidate for the 11th district. He said it was “easily the most racist…
Update, July 12: Edwin Duterte of California is no longer running. More white nationalists are running for state or federal office than in any other election in modern history, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Some of these candidates are proud, card-carrying Nazis, while others have had more subtle flirtations with the “alt-right.” There’s…
A group of Canadian rabbis is calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to suspend a 2004 agreement with the United States that recognizes America as a legitimate country in which refugees can claim asylum. The rabbis, citing the Trump administration’s recent policy of separating migrant families at the Mexican border and its ban on migrants…
Sheldon Adelson may have his eye on some brand new real estate for a casino — in North Korea, Quartz reports. Adelson reportedly spoke at a charity event in Jerusalem about the Korean conflict, saying he hoped Trump would get the North and South to end the Korean War. Adelson, a veteran of the Korean…
Morning Brew, a chatty business newsletter, tried to use a Jewish joke to get in on the buzz about the annual Sun Valley conference for media, tech and entrepreneurship, writing Wednesday morning that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg “excitedly packed his sunscreen, sleeping bag, and yarmulke” for the networking conference, which kicked off earlier in the…
The National Council of Jewish Women will relocate their headquarters from New York to DC this September. NCJW announced in a press release on Wednesday that the move will “better position the organization for its critical policy and advocacy work advancing social and economic justice for women, children, and families.” NCJW CEO Nancy Kaufman will…
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