(JTA) — French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the suspected murder of a Holocaust survivor in Paris, which he called “appalling” before vowing to fight anti-Semitism. Macron made the comment on Twitter on Tuesday about the March 23 slaying of Mirelle Knoll, 85, whose torched body was found with 11 stab wounds inside her apartment. Prosecutors…
(JTA) — Virginia Republicans have ousted a party leader who said only Christians should run for party positions. Fredy Burgos was voted off the state Republican party’s Central Committee on Monday, The Hill reported. He had been elected to the post. “Having a preference for Christians over non-Christians as political leaders is not bigoted,” Burgos…
(JTA) — The president of San Francisco State University issued a public apology to the campus Jewish community over continued allegations of anti-Semitism at the school, adding that “Zionists are welcome on our campus.” The apology by Leslie Wong posted on the university’s website on Friday came a day after Wong met with members of…
It didn’t take long for the anti-Semitic accusations to emerge after a movie theater in the Siberian city of Kemerovo caught fire on Sunday, killing 64 people (41 of them children). Russian social media today has been swirling with blood libels, pointing to the Jews for orchestrating the fire on the eve of Passover. “There…
An eight-year-old Israeli girl made a dramatic jump to safety after her family’s Be’er Sheva apartment caught on fire. The Sunday blaze killed a two-year-old girl and left a four-year-old boy critically injured, Times of Israel reported. The girl’s six-month old brother is in stable condition. The girl was hesitant to make the leap off…
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left hospital late Tuesday following tests after suffering a high fever and a cough. A Reuters witness saw Netanyahu’s convoy leaving the hospital, and shortly after midnight Netanyahu said on Twitter: “I am on my way home. Sure some rest and hot soup will put things right.”…
Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of The Atlantic magazine, is defending his decision to hire a conservative writer who once advocated hanging women who get abortions in a tweet, Slate reported. The magazine’s hiring of Kevin Williamson, formerly a writer for the National Review, raised eyebrows when it was revealed last week. Williamson is a fierce anti-Trump…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s deportation of African migrants will be delayed until after Passover. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court agreed to a government request for an extension on the court’s order for a brief to outline the state’s deportation policy and related issues to April 9. The original deadline was March 26. The state said…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The case against two Israeli fathers who shot into a mob of Palestinians, killing one, while escorting a West Bank hike in honor of a boy’s bar mitzvah has been closed. The Central District Attorney’s Office determined that the father shot his firearm in self-defense. On November 30, at least 30 Palestinian…
Stormy Daniels, the former adult-film star who allegedly signed a nondisclosure agreement shortly before the presidential election promising to keep quiet about a sexual encounter with President Trump, sued his lawyer on Monday for defamation. Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, said that Cohen publicly portrayed her as having made up the affair with…
An aide to a New York state senator compared Democrats and a survivor of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting to Nazis in a Facebook post. “The Democrats are doing exactly what Hitler did… He used the youth to disarm and control the people. This is scary!” Anthony Testaverde, an aide to Sen. Martin Golden,…
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