JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed the country’s foreign ministry to withdraw from UNESCO. Netanyahu made the announcement that Israel would be joining the United States in withdrawing from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on Sunday during the weekly Cabinet meeting. “I think that this is appropriate, given this organization’s…
Mormons are continuing to posthumously baptize Holocaust victims — despite church rules that are meant to restrict the ceremonies only to a member’s ancestors. This discovery was made by a former Mormon and researcher Helen Radkey and shared with the Associated Press. The church, in a statement to the AP, acknowledged the ceremonies violated its…
(JTA) — Jake Tapper is calling out many of the countries who rebuked President Trump and Israel at the United Nations on Thursday. After 128 countries voted to condemn Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and eventually move the U.S. embassy there, the Jewish CNN anchor let loose on “The Lead.” He sharply…
Juan Thompson, the former journalist who bombarded Jewish community centers with fake bomb threats in a revenge plot against an ex-girlfriend, was sentenced on Wednesday to five years in prison. In a New York federal court, the judge called Thompson’s crimes “domestic terrorism,” the New York Post reported. “This is domestic terror in the literal…
A contingent of religious Jews lined up on a highway near Donald Trump’s home at his Mar-a-Lago resort in South Florida to thank him for commuting the sentence of Sholom Rubashkin. Trump commuted Rubashkin’s sentence Wednesday night. Rubashkin was serving a 27 year sentence for committing fraud as owner of a major kosher meat processing…
(JTA) — A researcher says Mormons have posthumously baptized the late Lubavitcher rebbe, the grandparents of Carrie Fisher and Steven Spielberg, and hundreds of Holocaust victims, violating an agreement to halt the practice. Helen Radkey, a Salt Lake City-based independent researcher who has been looking into the Mormon practice of posthumous baptisms for two decades,…
(JTA) — Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz vowed to prioritze “combating anti-Semitism in all its forms” in his first speech since taking office. Kurz, 31, spoke Wednesday amid warnings by several Jewish groups that the rise of Kurz’s coalition partners — the far-right, anti-immigrant Freedom Party — could foster a rise in anti-Semitism. “We will determinedly…
Mark Ein, a Washington DC businessman and tennis enthusiast, is entering the local newspaper scene, purchasing the Washington City Paper, an alternative publication which has come across hard times and was seeking an urgent cash infusion. Ein is an investor and chairman of Kastle Systems building-security company. He also founded the Washington Kastles tennis team….
(JTA) — Pop star Lorde is considering canceling her upcoming concert in Tel Aviv after pro-Palestinian fans in her native New Zealand criticized her. New Zealanders Nadia Abu-Shanab and Justine Sachs — the former Palestinian and the latter Jewish — wrote an open letter on Thursday on the website The Spinoff saying that Lorde’s scheduled performance…
(JTA) — Montenegro’s foremost politicians joined their president and faith community leaders for the first laying in centuries of a cornerstone for a synagogue in the area that now comprises that Balkan nation. President Philip Vujanovic was joined Tuesday at the synagogue’s construction site by the acting and former mayors of the capital of Podgorica,…
New York Public Radio fired two of its most popular and beloved hosts Thursday after each was recently accused of sexual harassment and bullying, the New York Times reported. Leonard Lopate, 77, and Jonathan Schwartz, 79, had been suspended earlier this month. Each was a fixture of WNYC, the public radio station in New York….
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