This Passover will be particularly emotional for the Parkland families who lost their children to last month’s shooting. “[Passover is] about remembering the past so we can learn for the future,” Ilan Alhadeff, whose 14-year-old daughter Alyssa was killed, told the New York Post. “We’re going to bring everyone together and celebrate her life,” added…
The brother of slain Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against conservative activists and media organizations who allegedly spread conspiracy theories about his death, CNN reported. Seth Rich was shot to death in D.C. last July in what police believed to be a robbery. Right-wing individuals and groups suggested without…
Lawyers from the White House are investigating two massive loans made to Jared Kushner’s family business for possibly violating ethics statutes or federal law, the Wall Street Journal reported. The investigation was announced Monday, after the New York Times reported that Kushner had met personally with top executives from Apollo and Citibank, the two firms…
(JTA) — French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the suspected murder of a Holocaust survivor in Paris, which he called “appalling” before vowing to fight anti-Semitism. Macron made the comment on Twitter on Tuesday about the March 23 slaying of Mirelle Knoll, 85, whose torched body was found with 11 stab wounds inside her apartment. Prosecutors…
(JTA) — Virginia Republicans have ousted a party leader who said only Christians should run for party positions. Fredy Burgos was voted off the state Republican party’s Central Committee on Monday, The Hill reported. He had been elected to the post. “Having a preference for Christians over non-Christians as political leaders is not bigoted,” Burgos…
(JTA) — The president of San Francisco State University issued a public apology to the campus Jewish community over continued allegations of anti-Semitism at the school, adding that “Zionists are welcome on our campus.” The apology by Leslie Wong posted on the university’s website on Friday came a day after Wong met with members of…
It didn’t take long for the anti-Semitic accusations to emerge after a movie theater in the Siberian city of Kemerovo caught fire on Sunday, killing 64 people (41 of them children). Russian social media today has been swirling with blood libels, pointing to the Jews for orchestrating the fire on the eve of Passover. “There…
An eight-year-old Israeli girl made a dramatic jump to safety after her family’s Be’er Sheva apartment caught on fire. The Sunday blaze killed a two-year-old girl and left a four-year-old boy critically injured, Times of Israel reported. The girl’s six-month old brother is in stable condition. The girl was hesitant to make the leap off…
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left hospital late Tuesday following tests after suffering a high fever and a cough. A Reuters witness saw Netanyahu’s convoy leaving the hospital, and shortly after midnight Netanyahu said on Twitter: “I am on my way home. Sure some rest and hot soup will put things right.”…
Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of The Atlantic magazine, is defending his decision to hire a conservative writer who once advocated hanging women who get abortions in a tweet, Slate reported. The magazine’s hiring of Kevin Williamson, formerly a writer for the National Review, raised eyebrows when it was revealed last week. Williamson is a fierce anti-Trump…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s deportation of African migrants will be delayed until after Passover. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court agreed to a government request for an extension on the court’s order for a brief to outline the state’s deportation policy and related issues to April 9. The original deadline was March 26. The state said…
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