JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Knesset approved a controversial bill which will keep supermarkets and other businesses closed on the Sabbath. The so-called mini-markets bill passed Tuesday morning by a narrow vote of 58 to 57 in its second and third readings. The vote came after a 15-hour filibuster by the opposition parties. Under the new legislation,…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel attacked a military base outside of Damascus with airstrikes and ground missiles, the Syrian army said. An arms depot was destroyed in the early Tuesday morning attacks, according to reports. The Syrian army announced the attacks on state television. It claimed to have hit one of the Israeli jets and intercepted…
(JTA) — A 22-year-old British man who has declared himself a Nazi was found guilty of stirring up racial hatred against Jews. A Preston Crown Court jury found the Lancashire man guilty Monday in a jury trial. He will be sentenced at a later date, according to reports. The man cannot be named for legal…
A group of American Jewish leaders sent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a letter Monday urging him to rethink plans to deport tens of thousands of African refugees — and to do the “Jewish thing” and recognize them as refugees “deserving protection.” “We are asking Israel to do the right thing, the Jewish thing, to be…
Mark Cuban thinks the days of the celebrity politician are past. Which is strange, because Mark Cuban is a celebrity who talks a lot about getting into politics. “What I think voters will sour on by 2020 is the concept that they will trust the skill set of a famous person simply because they are…
Ivanka Trump tweeted her support for the acceptance speech Oprah Winfrey gave during Sunday night’s Golden Globes — but received harsh criticism because Winfrey’s speech was seen as implicitly critical of the Trump administration. Just saw @Oprah’s empowering & inspiring speech at last night’s #GoldenGlobes. Let’s all come together, women & men, & say #TIMESUP!…
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has hired court clerks through 2020, CNN reported yesterday. That suggests that the 84-year-old liberal justice, who has served on the court since 1993, intends to remain there through President Donald Trump’s term. Ginsburg was widely expected to step down from the court if Hillary Clinton had won the…
Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced ex-governor of New York, threatened to stab a man in the penis at a Greek restaurant in Manhattan on January 2, the New York Post reported. According to the man and one other witness, Spitzer’s threat came after the diner, Jamie Antolini, goaded Spitzer by loudly praising the man who brought…
An Israeli man armed with two knives was arrested Tuesday morning for allegedly scrawling a swastika on a bust of Yitzhak Rabin, the assassinated Prime Minister of Israel, the Jerusalem Post reported. Police reported that the man was drunk and was also carrying writing utensils. He was picked up several hundred yards from the site…
The author of the bombshell new book exposing the inner workings of the White House said in an interview on Monday that President Trump is “aware of who is Jewish in a way that feels creepy.” Michael Wolff, the author of the new book “Fire and Fury,” also said on MSNBC that he believes that…
A substitute teacher at a Maryland girls school was fired for his involvement with a prominent white nationalist think tank in the “alt-right.” Greg Conte, a substitute teacher and sports coach at the Academy of the Holy Cross, was fired this past fall, but only this month did school officials send a letter explaining the…
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