JERUSALEM (JTA) — At least 15 people were killed in an airstrike on an Iranian weapons depot in Damascus. Eight members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards were reported to be among the dead in the late Tuesday night attack, according to reports citing the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group, which has attributed the attacks…
Kathy Manning, a trailblazing former Jewish federation chief, was poised for a landslide victory in the Democratic primary for a congressional seat in North Carolina. Manning was ahead of fellow Democrat Adam Coker by a more than 2-1 margin with most of the votes counted in the 12th district race. Manning looks set to face…
The lawyer for adult-film star Stormy Daniels, who says she was paid $130,000 by Cohen to stay quiet about a sexual encounter with Trump, on Tuesday claimed that the longtime attorney for President Trump, Michael Cohen, received $500,000 from a Russian billionaire in the months after the 2016 election. In a tweet and report released…
The man who filmed himself taunting a young Hasidic boy over his haircut has issued a video apology. Quai James’ apology came a few days after the original video went viral, with the original clip viewed over 1 million times and copies of it seen at least a million more. “I recently posted a online…
The wife and daughter of the professor who was murdered in a home invasion in Brooklyn on Monday night were reportedly saved by warnings from their neighbor, The New York Post reported. Doreen Giuliano reportedly quickly texted her neighbor Jennifer Hunter when she noticed a strange man creeping around the Prospect Park South home Monday…
A Jewish felon has a new criminal charge for a comment he allegedly made in jail about “shooting up” a synagogue, police said. Justin M. Cabral, 30, of South Glens Falls, New York, was charged with making a terroristic threat after inmates and corrections officers at the Warren County Jail heard him make a comment…
A 14-year-old yeshiva student in the New York borough of Queens was punched and called a “Jew boy” on Sunday in an attack that the police are investigating as an anti-Semitic incident, the Forest Hills Post reported. The boy was reportedly walking home outside Yeshivath Shaar Hatorah Grodno at around 8:00 p.m. when a man…
Members of the United Kingdom’s Jewish Labour Movement claimed they were banned from attending a Labour Party meeting about anti-Semitism that they were originally invited to participate in, the Jewish Chronicle reported. Labour’s executive committee had reportedly invited the Jewish group to attend Tuesday’s session and “contribute to the discussion on this issue.” But JLM…
The woman who accused Missouri’s governor of taking nude photographs of her without her consent will testify at his trial, which begins next week, ABC News reported. Gov. Eric Greitens is accused of taking a nonconsensual nude photograph of a woman he was having an affair with, while she was tied up. He allegedly threatened…
A student group at Stony Brook University in New York has garnered criticism after calling for the removal of Hillel from campus and comparing Zionists to “Nazis, white nationalists and KKK members,” the Algemeiner reported Monday. Stony Brook’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter came under fire after one of its members, Rakia Syed,…
A professor of psychology was murdered in a home invasion in Brooklyn on Monday night, the New York Post reported. Jeremy Safran, 66, was allegedly attacked at about 6 p.m. in his home in the leafy Prospect Park South neighborhood. Safran was reportedly found by investigators laying on the floor with trauma to his head…
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