Comedian Amy Schumer has made a name for herself with her sharp wit and self-deprecating observations about romance, drinking and sex. But Schumer, 33, says people have got the wrong idea about her new romantic comedy “I Feel Pretty,” about a woman who suffers from low self-esteem until she bangs her head and believes she…
(JTA) — Fans of the Italian soccer team Lazio taunted a Rome rival with anti-Semitic chants about Anne Frank. “Anne Frank is from Roma,” the Lazio fans chanted Sunday at the Roma squad, which often is associated with being left wing and Jewish. The incident in the fierce rivalry came days after Holocaust Remembrance Day…
NEW YORK (JTA) — Congregation Kolot Chayeinu in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood is removing its savings from JPMorgan Chase, making it the first U.S. synagogue to publicly divest from a bank or other corporation “to explicitly oppose the funding of fossil fuel and other related projects dangerous to the world in which we live,” according…
(JTA) — The City Council in Durham, North Carolina, has voted unanimously to bar the city’s police department from international exchanges in which the officers receive “military-style training” in a slap at such programs held with the Israeli army and police. The resolution, which states that the council “opposes international exchanges with any country in…
(JTA) — The CEO of the parent company of Cambridge Analytica said Adolf Hitler demonized Jews to rile political support though he “didn’t have a problem” with them, and President Donald Trump uses similar tactics as the German leader. Nigel Oakes of the SCL Group made his remarks during interviews with British academic Emma Briant…
The onetime White House Communications Director known as “The Mooch” met with students at Rutgers Chabad on Monday to discuss countering anti-Israel campaigns on campus, Jewish Insider reported. “I am a one state solution person,” Anthony Scaramucci told students. “I know there are places like J Street [that push the two state solution]… but they…
Rogue New York State Senator Simcha Felder, who is the one man standing between the Democrats and total control of the state government, denied a report that Governor Cuomo had asked him to rejoin the Democratic caucus, City & State reported. He branded as a “veggie burger” a story that quoted Felder saying that Cuomo…
Leonard Pozner and Veronique De La Rosa, whose son Noah Pozner was shot and killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre, have filed a lawsuit against controversial radio talk show host Alex Jones for his continual claims that the shooting never happened. The father of murdered six-year-old Jesse Lewis, Neil Heslin, is also suing Jones…
A leading movement representing atheists has fired its president over accusations of sexual misconduct. American Atheists, an organization devoted to the promotion of secularism and removal of expressions of religion in government, dumped David Silverman Friday after the release of a BuzzFeed News story that reported two women’s claims of nonconsensual sexual contact with them….
Alan Dershowitz confronted Sean Hannity on his Fox News show on Monday, saying the talk show host should have disclosed publicly that he had secretly been legally represented by President Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen. Cohen, who is under criminal investigation, was a frequent guest on Hannity’s radio and TV programs, but the host never…
(JTA) — Orthodox Jewish organizations in America are condemning attacks by religious extremists on Israeli soldiers and police officers. In recent months there has been an increase in violent attacks against religious Jews in Israel who join the Israel Defense Forces and the Israel Police. The leaders of the Orthodox Union, Rabbinical Council of America…
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