(JTA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would look at ways to legalize thousands of illegal West Bank settlement homes in reaction to terrorist attacks. Netanyahu also told the Attorney General’s Office to look into approving 82 new housing units in Ofra, a settlement that saw a deadly terrorist attack this week. He also…
(JTA) — Two men beat an Arab bus driver inside a West Bank settlement in what the alleged victim said was a hate crime. According to Israeli media reports, Thursday’s incident was among several involving settlers targeting random Palestinians this week, likely to avenge terrorist attacks. Nidal Alfakia was lightly injured in the incident, in…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The American Federation of Teachers said vandals defaced its headquarters in Washington D.C. with anti-Semitic graffiti. A number of areas around the building, including a wall, were yellow spray-painted on Tuesday and Wednesday with “I want Jexit!” an apparent anti-Semitic play on “Brexit,” Britain’s planned pullout from the European Union. Randi Weingarten,…
Jared Kushner is already known as the ultimate Trump whisperer, with an office next to the president and a ring on the finger of the orange haired guy’s favorite daughter. But now the presidential son-in-law may be close to being named chief of staff, a move that would at once solidify his power in the…
Yeshivah of Flatbush is angry at the New York Times for using its photo to illustrate an article about poor education in Jewish religious schools, The Yeshiva World News reported. The Times initially used a photo of Yeshiva Darchei Torah, meeting the wrath of its dean Rabbi Yaakov Bender, who penned a letter in YWN…
A queer dance party raged outside White House senior adviser Stephen Miller’s housing complex Wednesday night. Activist group WERK for Peace organized a twerk-filled protest outside CityCenterDC for Miller’s work on the Trump administration’s immigration policy, DCist reported. The group launched the #WerkNotWalls campaign to call attention to the grim treatment of migrants and refugees…
The Illinois state body that sets investment policy gave Airbnb 90 days to explain why it will not list properties in West Bank settlements. At the request of Gov. Bruce Rauner, the outgoing Republican governor, the Illinois Investment Policy Board on Wednesday unanimously voted to notify Airbnb it is in violation of state law that…
Michael Cohen was accepted into his top choice prison: FCI Otisville, 70 miles northwest of New York City and beloved of the best white-collar Jewish criminals for its range of ethnic amenities. Perks include a full-time Jewish chaplain, kosher kitchen — featuring matzo ball soup, gefilte fish, beef cholent and rugelach — and weekly Shabbat…
(JTA) — An anti-Semitic video was posted on social media and anti-Semitic fliers posted both, related to the Wisconsin high school students who made what appears to be a Nazi salute in a junior prom photo have appeared around the Baraboo community. A seven-minute video was posted on Sunday to the paid social networking website minds.com by…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The names of both parents who adopt a baby in Israel must be registered on its birth certificate even if both parents are the same sex. Israel’s Supreme Court made the ruling on Wednesday in response to a lawsuit filed by a homosexual couple who claimed they were being discriminated against since…
Israeli-American actress Natalie Portman said that Israel’s nation-state law is “racist” and a “mistake” that she does not agree with it an interview she gave to London-based Arabic daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi, published Thursday. In the interview, which marked the release of her new film, “Vox Lux,” Portman explained that the law is a political decision…
