Billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson met with top Republicans on the sidelines of an Israeli American Council event to talk about preserving a Republican majority in the House, Jewish Insider reported. Adelson has said that he sees the Israeli American Council, to which he is the top donor, as a hardline alternative to AIPAC. Before…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Yisrael Helprin was named for the Jewish state because they were born on the same day 70 years ago. Before he was born, his parents had intended to name him after his two grandfathers, but then decided it was more important to commemorate the birth of Israel through their son. He grew…
(JTA) — A Jewish cemetery near Paris was desecrated by a person who vandalized eight headstones, a watchdog on anti-Semitism said. The incident earlier this week resulted in light damage to the headstones at the cemetery in Seine Saint Denis north of the French capital, according to a statement Wednesday by Sammy Ghozlan, president of…
(JTA) — A far-right Polish nationalist group has filed a complaint with the country’s High Court, accusing Israeli President Reuven Rivlin of violating a law that makes it illegal to suggest that Poles or the country were complicit in Nazi crimes during the Holocaust. The group, the National Movement, accuses Rivlin of breaking the recently…
(JTA) – Barbara Bush “was the gold standard for what it means to be First Lady,” the Republican Jewish Coalition said. The wife of the 41st president, George H.W. Bush, as well as the mother of the 43rd, George W. Bush, died Tuesday night at her home in Houston. She was 92 and had been…
Goldman Sachs Group Inc Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein said on Wednesday he expects Chief Operating Officer David Solomon to succeed him when he decides to leave. In an interview with CNBC, Blankfein said he did not have a definite “timeline for succession.” Speculation over Blankfein’s succession surfaced earlier this year, after the Wall Street…
BERLIN (JTA) – A young Jewish man wearing a kippah was physically attacked on a Berlin street by an Arabic-speaking man in an apparent anti-Semitic attack. Police are investigating the Tuesday evening incident, which the victim, 21, filmed on his cell phone. During the attack, the assailant lashed the kippah-clad Jewish man with his belt…
Comedian Amy Schumer has made a name for herself with her sharp wit and self-deprecating observations about romance, drinking and sex. But Schumer, 33, says people have got the wrong idea about her new romantic comedy “I Feel Pretty,” about a woman who suffers from low self-esteem until she bangs her head and believes she…
(JTA) — Fans of the Italian soccer team Lazio taunted a Rome rival with anti-Semitic chants about Anne Frank. “Anne Frank is from Roma,” the Lazio fans chanted Sunday at the Roma squad, which often is associated with being left wing and Jewish. The incident in the fierce rivalry came days after Holocaust Remembrance Day…
NEW YORK (JTA) — Congregation Kolot Chayeinu in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood is removing its savings from JPMorgan Chase, making it the first U.S. synagogue to publicly divest from a bank or other corporation “to explicitly oppose the funding of fossil fuel and other related projects dangerous to the world in which we live,” according…
(JTA) — The City Council in Durham, North Carolina, has voted unanimously to bar the city’s police department from international exchanges in which the officers receive “military-style training” in a slap at such programs held with the Israeli army and police. The resolution, which states that the council “opposes international exchanges with any country in…
