JERUSALEM (JTA) — Construction starts in West Bank settlements rose dramatically during 2017, with most of the new housing starts in isolated settlements. Peace Now in its annual settlement construction report released on Sunday reported that 2,783 new housing units began construction in the West Bank in 2017, around 17 percent higher than the yearly…
The Washington, D.C. Council member who suggested that the Rothschild banking family controls the weather has been inundated with invitations to Passover seders, The Washington Post reported Friday. Trayon White Sr., who represents a ward in the southeastern part of the district, was heavily criticized by local and national Jewish groups after making his statements…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Hamas military exercise set off Code Red alerts in southern Israeli communities and caused the Iron Dome anti-missile system to misfire. At least 10 missile alerts were activated in Sderot and the regional councils of Hof Ashkelon and Shaar HaNegev on Sunday night. In addition, the Iron Dome anti-missile system activated,…
(JTA) — Leaders of British Jewry in an open letter to the country’s Labour Party said “again and again” party leader Jeremy Corbyn “has sided with anti-Semites rather than Jews.” The letter sent on Monday to Member of Parliament John Cryer, chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party, said: “Today, leaders of British Jewry tell Jeremy…
(JTA) NEUILLY-SUR-SEINE, France (JTA) — If French Jewry is facing an existential threat because of anti-Semitic violence, then little of the drama is on display in this affluent and heavily Jewish suburb of Paris. At a time when other areas of the Paris region have soldiers guarding fortified synagogues and patrolling streets with many Jewish…
Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, two of Europe’s most famous Nazi hunters, are preparing to publish a memoir as they confront Europe’s rising anti-Semitism and xenophobia, the Washington Post reported. Over five decades the Klarsfelds, who are married, have tracked Nazis from Paris, their home, to as far away as Syria and Bolivia. Their most famous…
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo tried to make a joke about Jews not having “rhythm” at a black church on Sunday, the New York Post [reported.](Cuomo’s Jews-Can’t-Dance Joke Falls Flat At Black Church) While thanking Mount Neboh Baptist Church in Harlem for the chance to speak, he strayed suddenly into stereotype territory. “I want you…
Stormy Daniels told ‘60 Minutes’ that Donald Trump told her that she “reminds him of his daughter” — right before they had sex. The adult film star told Anderson Cooper that the billionaire future president meant it as a compliment when he said she was different from other women after they met at a 2006…
One of the most powerful speeches at the March for Our Lives gun control rally in Washington, D.C. was given by 11-year-old Naomi Wadler, who said she was there to represent other African-American women whose experiences with gun violence are often not covered by the media. Wadler, who is African-American and Jewish, had organized a…
Joshua Kushner, the brother of presidential advisor/son-in-law Jared Kushner, attended the “March for Our Lives” gun control rally in Washington, D.C. on Saturday. Joshua Kushner, who has described himself as a “lifelong Democrat,” had already donated $50,000 to help support the march. He attended the march with his girlfriend, supermodel Karlie Kloss, and posted about…
A professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School has been punished by her school after claiming in an online debate that African-American students get worse grades. Amy Wax, a tenured professor, made that claim last September in a recently-resurfaced conversation with Brown University economist Glenn Loury on the online platform Bloggingheads. “Here’s a very…
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