(JTA) — The suspect in a school shooting at a Texas high school that left at least 10 people dead had posted a photo of a symbol associated with Nazism on social media. On Friday morning, at least 10 people were killed and 10 wounded at a shooting at Santa Fe High School, outside Houston,…
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — On one of the Dutch capital’s busiest squares, a middle-aged Jewish man draped in an Israeli flag bellows insults at another man holding a Palestinian flag and posters promoting a boycott of Israel. The shouting startles a woman buying a herring sandwich from a food truck parked between the men on Leidse…
German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung said it had ended its decades-long collaboration with cartoonist Dieter Hanitzsch after he depicted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu using “anti-Semitic cliches.” Editor-in-chief Wolfgang Krach said publishing the cartoon, carried in the May 15 issue of the daily, was a mistake and he apologized to readers. Krach later said the cartoon…
Although he is now been booted out of his office space, Aaron Schlossberg made it to court — to the condemnation of colleagues. There is also a petition calling for his disbarment circulating. The Manhattan lawyer caught yelling racist comments at Spanish-speaking restaurant workers in a viral video was treated harshly by fellow attorneys at…
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — Argentine Jews said they will take legal action against a history teacher who praised Adolf Hitler to her students at a Catholic school — and was then revealed to be working also as an erotic dancer. Denise Yanet Evequoz was banned from teaching last week at the Jesus Maestro high school near…
Racist lawyer Aaron Schlossberg was kicked out of his Madison Avenue work space, the New York Post reported. Schlossberg had been using a business center in 275 Madison Ave. as an office address for his private law firm, but he was removed following the video that went viral Wednesday, in which he as captured berating…
(JTA) — The family of an Israeli government informant on Jewish extremists who killed himself is demanding authorities investigate their agents’ failure to prevent the suicide. The 20-year-old informant, identified in the Israeli media only as A, hanged himself at the Havat Gilad West Bank outpost shortly after telling his handler at the Israel Security…
(JTA) — Richard Pipes, the author of a monumental series of historical works on Russia and a top advisor to the Reagan administration, died in Cambridge at the age of 94. His son Daniel confirmed the death, the New York Times reported. Pipes, who spent his entire academic career at Harvard, took his place in…
Aaron Schlossberg’s racist outburst against Spanish-speaking people in a deli wasn’t his first ugly moment caught on video. In a video from 2016, he was captured calling a man on the street “an ugly f—king foreigner” after barging into him. You have to see this. My friend @MoreWillie was randomly assaulted on a New York…
(JTA) — A far-right race baiter who works as a columnist for a respected weekly British current affairs magazine wrote a piece sympathizing with the Wehrmacht, the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany. In the column by Taki Theodoracopulos, a Greek writer who lives in London and New York, the author asks readers to feel…
(JTA) — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos visited two yeshiva high schools in New York this week, amid allegations that such schools fail to provide an appropriate secular education. “Secretary DeVos made these historic visits to better understand Jewish education, a unique and time-honored tradition, within the diversity of the American educational tapestry,” said Rabbi Abba…
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