(JTA) — The man accused of attacking an identifiably Jewish man walking home from Shabbat services in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn was indicted on several charges including committing a hate crime. James Vincent, 40, was arraigned on Wednesday in Brooklyn Supreme Court on a 17-count indictment. He is charged among other things, with…
New York Democrats passed resolutions Wednesday night backing primary opposition to turncoat state Sen. Simcha Felder — and moving to kick him out of the party. Party leaders gathered at an annual convention demanded Brooklyn party leaders move to boot Felder, who has handed control of the evenly divided chamber to Republicans by caucusing with…
A former president of a Jewish fraternity at Temple University in Philadelphia was charged with attempting to commit rape and was arrested at the airport on his way to Israel for a Birthright trip, the Jewish Exponent reported. Ari Goldstein, 21, was reportedly taken into custody on May 13 at Boston Logan International Airport and…
Woody Allen’s son Moses Farrow posted a nearly 5,000-word blog post on Wednesday defending his father from sexual assault claims made by his sister. Farrow also wrote that his mother Mia Farrow had been abusive towards him and his siblings, and claimed that she had coached her daughter Dylan to make the sexual assault claims…
White nationalist leader Richard Spencer may be forced to represent himself at a trial over the violence following the “alt-right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia last year. Spencer had attempted to crowdfund $25,000 for a lawyer but had only reached $19,000 ahead of his scheduled court appearance on Thursday, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported Wednesday….
(JTA) — In Georgia’s battle of the Staceys, Stacey Abrams, the state’s onetime House minority leader, defeated former State Rep. Stacey Evans in the Democratic primary for governor. Nationwide, the win is seen as a bellwether in the battle for the Democratic soul between progressives and moderates. Abrams is a progressive. The Israel wrinkle in…
President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner had his White House security clearance restored Wednesday, a person familiar with the matter told CNN. Kushner was stripped of his interim clearance in February amid a change in procedures following the resignation of Rob Porter, the President’s staff secretary, who had been allowed to remain…
The arrested leader of a sex cult backed by heiresses of the prominent Jewish philanthropic Bronfman family reportedly once said that another high-ranking official in the movement was a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler. Reporter Frank Parlato has heavily covered NXIVM, the movement whose leader, Keith Raniere, has been arrested on sex trafficking charges. Parlato reported…
(JTA) — Lava from the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii is threatening a geothermal power plant owned by an Israeli company. The Puna power plant supplies 25 percent of the island’s electricity, the daily business website Calcalist reported. Eruptions from the volcano began on May 3. On Wednesday, molten lava from the volcano had reached within…
(JTA) — An event celebrating 50 years of study in Israel through the University of California Education Abroad Program was cancelled after alumni questioned holding the event as violence raged on the Gaza border. A new event celebrating 50 years of educational partnership with Hebrew University was scheduled in its place on the same date,…
Former Fox News commentator Sally Kohn revealed to Politico on Wednesday that she was sexually harassed by the network’s former chairman and CEO, Roger Ailes. “I go into Roger’s office and he tells me I have pretty eyes,” Kohn said of her first meeting with Ailes, right before she began working for Fox. “Five times…
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