(JTA) — The 14 male students who sprayed a swastika and anti-gay slurs on the side of their Boston-area high school can go through a “restorative justice process” instead of being criminally prosecuted. The vandalism, using the spray from fire extinguishers at Arlington High School, occurred on May 2. The vandals also shattered the glass…
(JTA) — Philip Roth, whose notorious novels about the sex drives of American men gave way to some of the most probing examinations of the American Jewish condition in the 20th and 21st centuries, has died. He was 85. His death was confirmed to The New York Times by his friend, Judith Thurman. Early in…
Activist Laura Moser lost in a landslide to rival Democrat Lizzie Pannill Fletcher in a suburban Houston congressional district that could portend the direction of the party ahead of the midterm elections. Progressives had rallied around Moser, who is Jewish and has written for the Forward, after she endured an opposition research dump by her…
An extensive investigation by the Associated Press into top Trump donor Elliott Broidy and a business associate, George Nader, revealed their efforts to create a lucrative backchannel between crown princes from the UAE and Saudi Arabia and the Trump White House to push policies harmful to those countries’ rival, Qatar. One section of the investigation…
Top Trump fundraiser Elliott Broidy and his business partner George Nader tried to use their access to the president to win lucrative contracts with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the Associated Press reported Monday. Broidy and Nadar pitched themselves to Arab crown princes “as a backchannel to the White House” who could push…
New York City lawyer Aaron Schlossberg issued an apology on Tuesday for berating Spanish-speaking workers at a Manhattan deli and threatening to call immigration agents on them, a video of which went viral on social media last week. “To the people I insulted, I apologize,” Schlossberg tweeted on Tuesday. “Seeing myself online opened my eyes…
The woman at the center of Missouri governor Eric Greitens’ sex scandal has spoken publicly for the first time since news of the affair broke in January. “I didn’t want this. I wasn’t out to get anyone,” the woman, who is identified only by her initials K.S., told Missouri station KSDK in an interview published…
Updated 3:50 p.m. After the controversial firing of the longtime volunteer leader of Jewish religious services at a major U.S. Army base in February, top brass promised to name a new leader in time for Shavuot. But the holiday came and went without any progress, likely forcing the local Jewish community to continue going without…
A new study claims to have found proof in the remains of Adolf Hitler that he did in fact die in 1945 — and that he did not, as some conspiracy theories claim, escape by submarine to Argentina, and possibly even to the moon. The peer-reviewed study, released last week in the European Journal of…
Saturday’s Royal Wedding brought a new title for Prince Harry — who is now the Duke of Sussex, a title that has not been used in quite a while. Will Harry follow in his predecessor’s liberal and rebellious ways — which included helping Jews? The original Duke of Sussex was Prince Augustus Frederick, born in…
The editors of the satire news site The Onion revealed to Politico on Sunday that they received an angry email from Donald Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen in 2013, fuming over a satirical article published under Trump’s name with the headline, “When You’re Feeling Low, Just Remember I’ll Be Dead In About 15 Or 20 Years.”…
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