Updated, June 28 A new network of community mikvehs, or ritual baths, will host an inaugural summer gathering this August, bringing together established organizations and those interested in starting a new mikveh program. A large majority of mikvehs in the United States are operated by the Orthodox community, for whom ritual purification is commanded for…
The Davidson College men’s basketball team will fly to Poland on Saturday to visit Auschwitz, in hopes of keeping alive the tragic memory of the Holocaust and its victims. The four-day trip grew out of an invitation from a Davidson alumna involved with the Maimonides Institute for Medicine, Ethics and the Holocaust, a non-profit focused…
The raucous victory party for congressional giant-killer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez featured a who’s who of progressive New York politics, including actor-turned-gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon. It also included a man who has run for office on the platform of fighting “greedy Jewish landlords.” Notice the guy behind her, in the purple shirt? It’s Thomas Lopez-Pierre, Mark Levine’s…
Republican Iowa congressman Steve King has refused to apologize for retweeting a British neo-Nazi earlier this month. King, who represents Iowa’s 4th district, told CNN on Tuesday that he didn’t realize he had retweeted a message by Mark Collett, a former chairman of the youth wing of the far-right British National Party and an associate…
(JTA) — A progressive Democrat in New York who called Israel’s killing of violent Palestinian protesters on the Gaza border a “massacre” scored a major upset over incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley in a contentious party primary. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 28, defeated Crowley, 56, by a margin of 58-42 percent in Tuesday’s election, toppling a lawmaker who…
Businessman Perry Gershon beat a crowded field to secure the Democratic nomination for New York’s 1st Congressional District and face off against Jewish Republican incumbent Lee Zeldin in November, Patch reports. Zeldin, one of two Jewish Republicans in the House, ran unopposed in the GOP primary. Gershon fended off four competitors to nab the Democratic…
(JTA) — In a move that observers said could defuse tensions between Israel and Poland, that country’s prime minister said he’d kick back to parliament a bill about rhetoric on the Holocaust for amendments. Mateusz Morawiecki made the statement Wednesday about a law passed in January, which criminalizes blaming the Polish nation or people for…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the insurgent firebrand who Tuesday toppled the No. 4 Democrat in the House of Representatives, is a strong critic of Israel who denounced the killings of Palestinian protesters as a “massacre.” This is a massacre. I hope my peers have the moral courage to call it such. No state or entity is absolved…
About 20 immigration activists convened outside of Stephen Miller’s luxurious Washington, D.C. apartment complex on Monday, USA Today reported. Protesters reportedly chanted, “Say it loud, say it clear: immigrants are welcome here,” and handed out missing children flyers and “wanted” posters in front of the swanky CityCenter DC, which is partly owned by the government…
An interview between CNN’s Jake Tapper and Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison about the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold President Trump’s travel ban grew test after Tapper confronted the congressman over his past support for the anti-Semitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. “You’ve been decrying President Trump’s bigotry,” Tapper began. “Obviously you used to follow…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — El Al will “immediately” remove any passenger who refuses to sit next to another passenger for any reason, its CEO announced, but not before a major Israeli tech company announced it would no longer fly its employees on the airline. NICE System’s CEO Barak Eilam on Monday announced via posts on social…
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