ABC canceled the popular comedy “Roseanne” on Tuesday after star Roseanne Barr compared a former Obama administration official to an ape in remarks on Twitter. “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.
A black woman unleashed an angry rant against an observant Jewish man on a Bronx subway train that has gone viral with more than 118,000 views on Twitter. The vitriolic straphanger went off for nearly two minutes about racism and discrimination which she blamed on Jews, the New York Post reported. “I’m schooling your a–-,”…
Israeli tank fire killed a Hamas fighter at a frontier outpost on Monday while soldiers chased down and caught two other Gazan militants who tried to cross into Israel, the military said. During their pursuit of the two Palestinians attempting to infiltrate armed with “knives, wire cutters and combustible material,” the Israeli soldiers were shot…
(JTA) — A Jewish woman became the first female to be elected sergeant at arms for the West Virginia state House of Delegates. Anne Lieberman was sworn in last week. She is the first female to hold one of the elected positions in the state legislature – doorkeeper, sergeant at arms and House speaker or…
(JTA) — An official at a school in New York City that held a moment of silence for Palestinian victims of violence on the Gaza border with Israel received a death threat. William Stroud, assistant principal of Beacon School, a selective public school located in the Hell’s Kitchen area of Manhattan, told a parents meeting…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Hamas prisoners in Israeli jails will not be permitted to watch the FIFA World Cup soccer tournament. Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan reportedly ordered the Israel Prisons Service to block the Hamas prisoners from watching the matches. The 2018 World Cup tournament begins next month in Russia. “I have no intention to…
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas left a Ramallah hospital more than a week after being admitted with a high fever. Abbas, 82, was discharged from the hospital on Monday. He said as he left that he would return to work on Tuesday, the Palestinian WAFA news agency reported. He said in a statement upon leaving…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — “Republicans seek alternative to ‘Nazi’ candidate after he secures nomination,” one headline reads. “GOP House candidate in Illinois is a 9/11 truther, said Beyonce had ties to the Illuminati,” another says. Both headlines would be alarming enough if they weren’t about two separate congressional races. The emergence of fringe candidates as the…
A 21-year-old Jewish Inuit activist from Canada’s far north has spoken out about the similarities between her two backgrounds — and how it may affect Jewish dietary laws. Killaq Enuaraq-Strauss grew up in Iqaluit, the capital of the northern Canadian territory of Nunavut. Her father is Jewish and her mother is Inuk (the singular for…
A senior at Cornell University in upstate New York was found dead in a nearby gorge on Friday, two days before his graduation ceremony. Avram “Avi” Pinals of Newton, Massachusetts, had planned to attend medical school at the University of Michigan, the Cornell Sun reported Sunday. He majored in biological sciences with a concentration in…
(JTA) — Swastikas were spray-painted on between 150 and 200 gravestones at a cemetery in southwestern Illinois. The vandalism at the Sunset Hill Cemetery in Glen Carbon, Illinois was discovered on Saturday morning. Swastikas also were spray painted on the homes and garage doors of a nearby home subdivision, according to reports. A 34-year-old man…
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