(JTA) — A female student at the University of California, Los Angeles has sued the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity there and one of the fraternity’s former members, accusing him of sexual assault. The accuser, who is remaining anonymous in the lawsuit, says that Blake Lobato, a ZBT brother, forcibly penetrated her while she was drunk…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Trump administration cut funding to the Palestinians by $200 million, citing Hamas rule in the Gaza Strip. “At the direction of President Trump, we have undertaken a review of U.S. assistance to the Palestinian Authority and in the West Bank and Gaza to ensure these funds are spent in accordance with…
Joe Lieberman is praying for his friend Sen. John McCain, who decided to discontinue treatment for an aggressive form of brain cancer, ABC News reported Friday. “Becoming John McCain’s friend has been one of the great blessings of my life,” Lieberman said in a statement. “Today I am praying for him and his family.” NEW:…
(JTA) — Chabad announced the opening of two Jewish centers in Africa, on the island of Zanzibar off Tanzania’s coast on the continent’s east and in Cote d’Ivoire. In Zanzibar, a predominantly Muslim former sultanate that used to have major roles in the slave trade and the international spice industry, Rabbi Shneor Shmulevitz and his…
The head of the Palestinian Football Association, Jibril Rajoub, was banned from all soccer-related activity for a year by FIFA on Friday on charges of inciting hatred and violence before a friendly planned between Israel and Argentina. Rajoub protested after Israel switched the venue of the June game from Haifa to Jerusalem. He urged Palestinians…
Thomas Frieden, a former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), was arrested in New York City on Friday on charges of sexual abuse and harassment of a woman last year, the New York Police Department said. Frieden, who also once served as New York City’s health commissioner, turned himself into…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Jerusalem municipality plans to open only six polling stations in the predominantly Arab eastern part of the city for October’s mayoral election, sparking charges that officials are trying to keep the Arabs from voting. Jewish neighborhoods, which represent most of the city’s voters, will have more than 180 stations, Haaretz reported…
(JTA) — A Swedish politician from Malmo who has worked on integration of immigrants denied saying that Jews and Armenians have “impure spirits.” Muhammad Khorshid, who represents the Liberals on the city council of the municipality in southern Sweden, told Expressen that the comment in his name from 2016 on Facebook belonged to a fake…
The head of a major Jewish not-for-profit in Buffalo, New York, has resigned, The Buffalo News reported. Peter Fleischmann, who’s been CEO at the Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies since 1982, has been on paid leave since late June. Since then, an outside firm has been reviewing the policies of the foundation, which supports Jewish charities…
(JTA) — Unidentified individuals scrawled anti-Semitic slogans and symbols on monuments for Holocaust victims in Estonia. The incident occurred sometime last week at the Kalevi-Liiva village in the Harju County near Tallinn, the capital of the Baltic nation of Estonia, the website News-Front reported Thursday. The monuments, erected at sites of mass killings of Jews…
Allen Weisselberg, the chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, has become the third key Jewish associate of President Trump to turn on him — tightening the legal noose around the president. Federal prosecutors have granted immunity to Weisselberg in a probe involving hush money paid to a porn star and a Playboy model in the…
