The owners of a Jewish summer camp in New York have sued the Rockland County Health Department for discriminating against their business because they are ultra-Orthodox Jews, The Journal News reported. The lawsuit, filed by camp owners Ephraim and Rivka Weissmandl, also includes a complaint accusing an agency inspector of making sexual comments toward her….
(JTA) — The University of Michigan is sanctioning the professor who refused to write a letter of recommendation for a student to study in Israel because he supports a boycott of the country. John Cheney-Lippold, a professor of American culture, last month declined to recommend junior Abigail Ingber for a semester abroad in Israel because…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — More than 3,000 acres of forest in the Northern and Western Negev desert have been damaged by arson attacks from Gaza. Marking six months since Palestinians in Gaza began sending incendiary balloons and kites over the border toward southern Israel, Keren Kayemeth L’Yisrael-Jewish National Fund reported Wednesday that some 3,279 acres, a…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — In a major foreign policy speech identifying an emerging authoritarian strain around the world, Bernie Sanders included the passage of Israel’s nation-state law as an example of President Donald Trump’s inspiring anti-democratic moves. “It should be clear by now that Donald Trump and the right-wing movement that supports him is not a…
Former mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg took to social media Wednesday morning to share news that he’s officially a Democrat, the Washington Post reported. In an early morning Instagram post, the Jewish billionaire announced that he re-registered as a member of the Democrat Party. He has run for office as a Republican and an…
President Trump said Tuesday that he wished he could nominate his daughter and advisor Ivanka as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, but said he wouldn’t do so because he wouldn’t want to be “accused of nepotism.” “I’ve heard a lot of names. I’ve heard Ivanka. How good would Ivanka be?” Trump told…
Some of Adolf Hitler’s last surviving relatives have been living a quiet, normal existence on Long Island — and are not in favor of the president, according to the New York Post. Germany’s Bild newspaper recently paid a visit to Hitler’s great-nephews: Alexander, Louis and Brian Stuart-Houston. They’re the sons of his nephew, William Patrick…
(JTA) — A flyer blaming Jews for the sexual assault allegations against newly sworn-in Justice Brett Kavanaugh were posted on the University of California, Davis campus. The flyers discovered on Monday read: “Every time some Anti-White, Anti-American, Anti-freedom event takes place, you look at it, and it’s Jews behind it.” The flyer shows an image…
An instructor at the University of Michigan took back an offer to write a letter of recommendation for a student after learning it was for a program in Israel, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. This is the second such event to have happened at the university in the past month. Jake Secker, a 20-year-old junior…
(JTA) — Greg Joseph of the NFL’s Cleveland Browns got a new mezuzah and kicked a game-winning field goal — on the same day. On Sunday, Rabbi Yossi Freedman, director of the Chabad Jewish Center of Downtown Cleveland, affixed the mezuzah on the doorpost of Joseph’s city apartment and the rookie kicker hit a 37-yarder…
(JTA) — Kim Kardashian West will be recognized for helping to connect an organ donor and recipient through the Gift of Life Marrow Registry. Kardashian West will be honored Oct. 29 with the first Gift of Life Impact Award at the Gift of Life Marrow Registry’s inaugural One Huge Night Gala in Los Angeles. In…
