The New York Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill on Monday that would bar the state from investing in or contracting with any business, individual or organization engaging in the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel. State institutions are currently barred in New York from directly taking part in a boycott against allied countries, but…
One day after stepping down as executive chairman of Starbucks, Howard Schultz told CNBC that he’s not ruling out a presidential run. “There’s a lot of things I can do as a private citizen other than run for the presidency of the United States,” Schultz said on Tuesday morning. “Let’s just see what happens.” Schultz,…
(JTA) — Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty to charges of rape and a criminal sexual act. The disgraced movie mogul appeared Tuesday morning in New York state Supreme Court in Manhattan. His bail was set at $1 million, which he already posted. His next scheduled court appearance is Sept. 20. If convicted on the most…
(JTA) — A French-Jewish watchdog on anti-Semitism has called for a boycott of a supermarket where staff was seen removing Israeli produce at the request of a shopper who complained citing the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and violence in Gaza. The Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, or BNVCA, on Monday also said in a…
(JTA) — Officials of a Jewish cemetery in north Seattle have filed a claim against the city, saying its inaction against the problems caused by the homeless living inside has cost it hundreds of thousands of dollars. The claim for $230,000 was filed Monday by Bikur Cholim cemetery board member Ari Hoffman. Hoffman last month…
A man suspected of killing six people, including a noted Jewish psychiatrist who advised prosecutors investigating high-profile murders, killed himself on Monday as police closed in on the Phoenix-area hotel where he was staying, police said. Investigators had been searching for the suspect, identified as Dwight Jones, 56, since Steven Pitt, a 59-year-old psychiatrist who…
Only a tiny fraction of the documents seized from President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen and reviewed by a court-appointed official are protected by attorney-client privilege, according to a court filing on Monday. Barbara Jones, the court-appointed special master reviewing the documents, said in the filing in Manhattan federal court that out of…
A Texas church’s summer lecture series includes Judaism as one of many “dangerous isms” — putting it in the same category as Islamism, alcoholism and pessimism, the Dallas Morning News reported. Greenville Avenue Church of Christ in Richardson, Texas will hold its “Dangerous Isms” summer series beginning on June 13, church minister, Shelton Gibbs III…
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote a strong dissent as the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 Monday in favor of a Christian baker who refused to make a cake for a same-sex wedding. Couple Charlie Craig and Dave Mullins requested a wedding cake from Masterpiece Cakeshop. Owner Jack Phillips refused to fulfill their request—he would not create…
(JTA) — Roseanne Barr reportedly cried and apologized for her racist tweet in a podcast interview with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. Barr “was sobbing and very apologetic about the whole thing,” according to the Hollywood Reporter, which cited an unnamed source. Boteach did not air the interview. The call in to the podcast came two days after…
Iranian supreme leader zyatollah Ali Khamenei made it clear Sunday that Israel can’t sit with him. The ruler wrote a tweet calling Israel a “malignant cancerous tumor in the West Asian region that has to be removed and eradicated.” Feeling personally victimized, the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. clapped back on Monday, replying with a…
