(JTA) — The president of the Zionist Organization of America is the latest pro-Israel figure to visit Qatar and meet with its leader. “They invited me to go a number of times – in September, October, November and December,” Morton Klein told Haaretz on Monday, confirming his visit earlier this month. “At first I refused…
The largest circulation ultra-Orthodox weekly magazine blurred out the faces of women in an image they published of prisoners at a Nazi death camp, Haaretz reported. Last week Mishpacha, which means “family” in Hebrew, published a story about twins operated on by Dr. Josef Mangele, a Nazi officer who conducted cruel and horrifying experiments on…
(JTA) — The rabbinical school and umbrella organization for Reconstructionist Judaism has a new name: Reconstructing Judaism. The name, announced Monday, comes along with a new logo of a sprouting tree as well as a new slogan, “Deeply rooted. Boldly relevant.” The rabbinical school in suburban Philadelphia, which serves 39 students, will be called the College…
Heinz Jakob “Coco” Schumann, a Jewish-German jazz legend who survived the Holocaust by playing for Nazis, is dead at 93, the BBC reported. Schumann, born to Jewish parents, fell in love with jazz swing music while living in Berlin in the 1930s. His first girlfriend, who was French, gave him the nickname Coco because it…
President Trump’s first State of the Union address on Tuesday will be missing at least one important audience member: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Ginsburg has a previously-scheduled speaking engagement in Rhode Island on Tuesday and so will not be attending the speech in Washington, the Associated Press reported Saturday. Ginsburg attended all eight…
President Trump’s nominee to serve as ambassador to Chile has numerous close business ties with the family of Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law. Andrew Gellert is the president of his family’s food import company, which does business in Chile. His father George is one of Jared Kushner’s father Charles’s most trusted business partners, Bloomberg Politics…
A white nationalist group claimed credit for a sign hung over a tunnel entering San Francisco that seemed to mock the city’s policy on protecting undocumented immigrants. The sign, reading “Danger Sanctuary City Ahead,” greeted westbound motorists heading into the city on the Bay Bridge, CBS News reported. The banner was also emblazoned with the…
VATICAN CITY, Jan 29 (Reuters) – Pope Francis called on European countries on Monday to do more to fight anti-Semitism, saying indifference on the issue was a virus that could allow the ideas of racial hatred to spread. Francis issued his appeal in a speech to a Rome conference on the responsibility of states to…
The son of Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg recounted his memory of helping his father photocopy the famous documents when he was just 13 years old in an article published Monday in The New York Times. Robert Ellsberg, now 62, told the Times that his father had asked him for help while they were out…
MOSCOW (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made firm statements about Iran before leaving for Russia to discuss the Islamic Republic with one of its key allies, President Vladimir Putin. In Russia, Netanyahu will discuss with Putin “Iran’s effort to turn Lebanon into one giant missile site, a site for precision missiles against the…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel and Poland will open an “immediate dialogue” over legislation that would criminalize the use of the term “Polish death camps.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Polish counterpart, Mateusz Morawiecki, spoke on Sunday evening by phone and “agreed that teams from the two countries would open an immediate dialogue in…
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