Most Americans support legal abortion — but religious groups vary widely on their views of the procedure, according to two separate Pew surveys. American Jews are more supportive than the general population. A 2017 Pew Research Center survey found that 57 percent of Americans are supportive of legal abortion — with 40 percent saying abortion…
(JTA) — One-third of Holocaust survivors in the United States continue to live at or below the poverty line, according to an aid organization. The Blue Card, which provides financial assistance to survivors, reported the statistic ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Saturday. Last year, the same proportion of survivors were at or below…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — In a message marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, President Trump called the Holocaust the “systematic persecution and brutal murder of six million Jewish people” — a marked departure from last year, when his message omitted any reference to Jews. “Tomorrow marks the 73rd anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazi death…
(JTA) — Barack Obama posed for a photo as a senator in 2005 with Louis Farrakhan, the virulently anti-Semitic leader of the Nation of Islam movement, and the photographer said he suppressed its publication at the request of a member of the Congressional Black Caucus. The Trice Edney News Wire first published the photo on…
(JTA) — If you’re going to Minneapolis to see the Super Bowl, you’ll also be viewing photos of Holocaust survivors at the airport. That’s the idea behind “Transfer of Memory,” a traveling exhibit of photos of Holocaust survivors, mostly from the Twin Cities, that is being shown at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport. The exhibit has been…
NEW YORK (JTA) — A state legislator in New York is asking colleagues to reschedule a statewide primary so it doesn’t conflict with Rosh Hashanah. The 2018 primary in New York State is currently scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 11, which is the second day of the two-day holiday. Observant Jews are required refrain from most…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Melania Trump toured the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a year after husband President Trump stirred controversy by releasing a statement on the day that did not mention Jews. “My thoughts and prayers are with the people whose lives and families were broken by the horrors of…
(JTA) — The City of New Orleans rescinded a recent resolution, celebrated by anti-Israel activists, that would have prohibited investment with human rights violators. Although the measure, passed 5-0 on January 11, did not mention Israel or the Palestinians, it was drafted by the New Orleans Palestinian Solidarity Committee, which cheered its passage. The resolution, authored…
(JTA) — Barack Obama said his administration refrained from vetoing a 2016 United Nations Security Council resolution critical of Israeli settlements because the pace of their construction “skyrocketed.” The former president spoke Wednesday during a rare public appearance at New York’s synagogue congregation of Temple Emanu-El, according to the British Daily Mail newspaper. He was…
Billionaire financier and liberal philanthropist George Soros did not mince in his speech Friday at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Soros’s most blistering attack was directed at President Trump. Soros, a major Democratic donor, warned that Trump is a “danger to the world” and said that Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jung Un…
When reporters from the New York Times were calling the executives of NBC about the “culture” of the Today Show, the executives asked Matt Lauer if there was anything they should know. “I am racking my brains, but I can’t think of anything,” Lauer responded, according to a report in Page Six. Less than two…
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