JTA) — Stop academic boycotts of Israel. That’s the message from 101 Jewish and pro-Israel organizations that signed on to a letter sent Tuesday to 250 U.S. college presidents and chancellors whose institutions have previously said they reject such boycotts of the Jewish state. The letter, which was organized by the anti-Semitism campus monitor the…
(JTA) — At least three large swastikas were spray-painted in a Brooklyn neighborhood. The swastikas discovered Monday in Greenpoint were painted within a block of each other. Two were accompanied by the letters “WP,” which stands for White Power. Two of the swastikas later were crossed out with red paint and the words “No Hate” spray-painted…
At 10 a.m. on Tuesday, women across Israel walked out of their workplaces for 24 minutes, one minute for each woman killed so far in 2018. That statistic, a rise over the reported 17 killed in 2017, was the galvanizing factor for what protesters are calling an “unprecedented” show of female power in Israel as…
President Trump called for Michael Cohen, his former lawyer, to “serve a full and complete sentence,” Talking Points Memo reported Monday. The president listed on Twitter the crimes that Cohen has pleaded guilty to, scoffing at his audacity to ask for a shorter prison sentence. He also claims the crimes were “unrelated to Trump,” despite…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — For the second straight year, Saudi Arabia won’t let Israeli chess players in for a world tournament. This year the Arab country will be penalized. The World Blitz & Rapid Championships has been relocated to Russia after the Israelis were refused visas. The same thing happened to seven Israelis who were to…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s military launched Operation Northern Shield, to destroy tunnels constructed by Hezbollah that reach from Lebanon into Israel. The Israel Defense Forces announced the discovery of the tunnels and began destroying them on Monday night. The IDF said that the tunnels were not complete and did not pose an immediate threat, but…
Rashida Tlaib, who became the first Palestinian-American ever elected to Congress last month, will lead a Congressional delegation to visit the West Bank, according to a report in the Intercept today. Tlaib will skip the trip to Israel that the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC offers to all newly-elected members of Congress. “I want us to…
We know they meant well. Catholic News Service, a news agency covering the Catholic church, celebrated the first night of Hanukkah made a little faux pas in making its Hanukkah greetings on Sunday night. The news agency illustrated their well-intentioned tweet with a photograph of the famous relief on the Arch of Titus depicting the…
Arnold Schwarzenegger called President Trump “meshugene leader” — “crazy” in Yiddish — for his decision to withdraw from an international agreement to tame global warming, AP reported. Schwarzenegger, an actor and former California governor, told delegates on Monday at the United Nations climate talks in Poland that regardless of what Trump said, the Unites States…
A Hasidic man was punched in the head from behind on Saturday in Brooklyn, NBC New York reported. Video shows a Hispanic man racing up to a small group of people standing on the sidewalk in the Williamsburg neighborhood. He punched the 32-year-old victim and reportedly yelled “Blah!” before running away. The victim was wearing…
(JTA) — Quarterback Brett Favre and other celebrities were duped by a group of white supremacists into making videos that included coded anti-Semitic messages. The group behind the videos calls itself the GDL, or Goyim Defense League, using the Hebrew word for a non-Jew, BuzzFeed News first reported. It is a play on the ADL,…
