A video game that simulates a school shooting is being condemned by parents of children who died during the mass shooting in February at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. “Active Shooter” is marketed as a SWAT team simulator, where players take the role of an armed officer responding to a school shooting,…
ABC announced on Tuesday it will immediately cancel the show “Roseanne,” following a racist tweet from the sitcom’s star, Roseanne Barr. “Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show,” ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey said in a statement. Barr, who is Jewish, wrote a…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Eric Greitens, the Republican governor of Missouri who for months has faced the threat of impeachment in part because of charges stemming from a sex scandal, has quit. “Let’s walk off the battlefield with our heads held high,” Greitens, 44, said Tuesday evening in a livestreamed announcement. He maintained his insistence that…
Patrick Little, the white supremacist candidate running as a Republican in the upcoming California Senate race, polled at 0% in a recent survey — a far cry from the 18% he received last month. Little, who has called for a government “free from Jews,” ended last month’s poll from SurveyUSA in a surprising second place,…
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s 2015 trip to Israel was not as bulletproof as he first thought. De Blasio, under fire at the time from local news outlets, first broached the subject of a visit to the Jewish state as part of a summer 2015 family excursion that included speaking at the Vatican,…
In addition to posting a racist tweet that got her TV show cancelled on Tuesday, actress and comedian Roseanne Barr also made comments about Chelsea Clinton and George Soros, a billionaire investor frequently cited in conservative conspiracy theories. Donald Trump, Jr. retweeted one, in which Barr claims Soros is a Nazi who turned in Jews…
The Chinese government granted a trademark approval on Sunday to Ivanka Trump’s company for the 13th time in the last three months — raising questions about conflicts of interest at the White House, Time reported. While the first daughter ended her management of the Ivanka brand when she took on a senior adviser role in…
(JTA) — French President Emmanuel Macron said that anti-Semitism was the reason for the deadly stabbing in 2003 of a young Jew whose killer was found unfit to stand trial. Macron said this in a letter dated May 20 to Meyer Habib, a French-Jewish lawmaker who last month wrote the president to request belated recognition…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli actress Gal Gadot turned down an offer to host the Eurovision Song Contest next year in Israel. Her agency said she could not host the contest after an invitation to do so by Israel’s Kan network due to a scheduling conflict, Ynet reported. “Gal would be happy to host and take…
(JTA) — In two anti-Semitic incidents involving the same Jewish community center in the British university city of Oxford, perpetrators spread white powder and started a fire outside the building. Talcum powder was flung over the garbage bins at the Chabad Student Centre Wednesday and offensive letters left at the building, the This is Oxforshire daily newspaper…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Russian-Jewish billionaire businessman Roman Abramovich made aliyah. Abramovich arrived in Israel on Monday afternoon, and immediately received Israeli citizenship. He is now eligible to receive and Israeli passport. He left Israel about three hours after taking care of his citizenship, the business daily Globes reported. He reportedly applied for citizenship from Russia last…
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