NEW YORK (JTA) — Out of all his celebrated films, Steven Spielberg is most proud of “Schindler’s List,” the 1993 Oscar winner about a German businessman who saved over 1,000 Jews during the Holocaust. The filmmaker made the claim at a Tribeca Film Festival event on Thursday marking the film’s 25th anniversary that brought him…
Jared Kushner was part of a June 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer at which the lawyer offered documents that she said would incriminate Hillary Clinton. Now, the New York Times is reporting that the lawyer, Natalia V. Veselnitskaya, has much closer ties to the Kremlin than previously disclosed. The revelations are renewing attention on…
Israeli troops shot dead three protesters along the Gaza border on Friday, Gaza medics said, hours after the United Nations human rights chief criticized Israel for using “excessive force” against demonstrators. Israeli troops have killed 41 Palestinians and wounded more than 5,000 others since Gaza residents began staging protests along the border fence on March…
(JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League is no longer taking a leading role in next month’s diversity training at Starbucks stores across the United States, serving instead in an consulting role. Initially, the group’s CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, was one of four civil rights leaders tapped to develop the coffee giant’s all-day anti-bias training next month across its…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League said it regretted using “overly broad language” to describe the Canary Mission, a group that posts blacklists of what it says are anti-Israel students on campuses. “We regret the overly broad language that we used to describe the Canary Mission in a tweet earlier this week,” an ADL spokesman…
(JTA) – Following complaints, a picture of a model holding money while wearing a rabbi costume was pulled off the Amazon Germany shopping website. The ads for the costume — a black hat with synthetic sidelocks that costs up to $20 — appeared on the German-language version of Amazon up until last week, the news…
The head of a school who organized a desert trek in which 10 Israeli teenagers were killed in a flash flood has been arrested on suspicion of causing death through negligence, police said. Nine girls and a boy were killed when a sudden, powerful torrent gushed through a usually arid Zafit river bed in southern…
A new study from the Pew Research Center has found that while one in ten American adults say they do not believe in any higher power, a slim majority say they believe in God “as described in the bible.” The study of 4,700 U.S. adults, released Thursday, follows up on research documenting the declining interest…
(JTA) — When Bryan Stevenson set out to build a memorial to the thousands of black people lynched in the United States, he thought about Germany and Poland. Those countries, where millions of Jews died at the hands of the Nazis, have made sure to preserve the memories of the victims — and the places…
(JTA) — Newly confirmed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will stop in Israel during a trip that began Friday, one day after the Senate approved his nomination by a vote of 57 to 42. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said Thursday that Pompeo will be leaving today for an overseas trip that will include meetings…
(JTA) — The body of a missing Israeli teen was found overnight Thursday, bringing to 10 the number of teenage hikers killed by a flash flood during a hike in southern Israel. Two Palestinian children also died from flooding in the West Bank, Haaretz reported, as the region has been lashed by intense spring rains….
