Amazon removed a circumcision training kit from its UK site this week after receiving complaints from opponents of the practice, the Guardian reported. The kits, which can be purchased on the U.S. version of Amazon for under $200, include surgical models of a male infant’s lower torso and genitals. The product is described as “Great…
The jail sentence of Sholom Rubashkin, the kosher meatpacking business owner who was sentenced in 2009 to 27 years in prison on dozens of wire fraud charges, was commuted by President Trump on Wednesday. Rubashkin and his father, Aaron, opened the Agriprocessors plant in Postville, Iowa, which eventually became the largest kosher slaughterhouse and meat-packing…
Jailed kosher meat executive Sholom Rubashkin, whose Iowa-based meatpacking firm, Agriprocessors, was the subject of what at the time was the largest immigration raid in U.S. history, will go free following a commutation issued Wednesday evening by President Trump. Rubashkin’s firm was the subject of a major Forward investigative series in 2006 and 2007. The…
Sen. Al Franken’s upcoming resignation marks the end of an era: It will be the end of a nearly 40-year streak of Jews representing Minnesota in the U.S. Senate. First came Rudy Boschwitz, a Jewish Republican who won the 1978 election. He kept his seat in 1984 but lost it in 1990 to Democrat Paul…
Anthony Scaramucci couldn’t help slamming Steve Bannon in an appearance at a large Hanukkah party in New York on Sunday evening, Page Six reported. The former White House communications director called Bannon, President Trump’s former chief strategist, a “loser” and a “messianic figure.” At a party hosted by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, an outspoken supporter of…
(JTA) — Amy Schumer teared up while learning details about her relatives’ journey from Eastern Europe to the United States on the PBS series “Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.” Seeing an immigration document with the names of her great-grandmother and her parents, who left what is now Ukraine in 1912, brought tears…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Hundreds of mourners attended a funeral in Israel for a woman and her three children killed in a house fire in Brooklyn. The funeral was held in Holon near Tel Aviv, where the mother, Aliza Azan grew up. Moshe, 11; Yitzah, 7, and Henrietta, 3, also died in the early Monday morning blaze….
Ambassador Nikki Haley, in a letter to dozens of U.N. states on Tuesday seen by Reuters, warned that the United States would remember those who voted for the resolution criticizing the U.S. decision. “The president will be watching this vote carefully and has requested I report back on those countries who voted against us. We…
PRISTINA, Dec 20 (Reuters) – Two Kosovo men pleaded guilty on Wednesday to planning attacks at a World Cup soccer match in Albania against the visiting Israel team last year. Kosovo police arrested 19 people in November 2016 on suspicion that they had links with the Islamic State militant group and were planning attacks in…
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum released a wide-ranging study on how to mitigate the Syrian civil war on Tuesday, the New York Times reported It was a second attempt for the museum, which released a preliminary version of the study online earlier this fall. That version immediately faced a political backlash, with policy experts and…
(JTA) — A 96-year-old former Auschwitz guard who was deemed fit to serve a prison sentence has challenged his jail sentence arguing that it violates his “right to life.” Oskar Groening was convicted and sentenced in July 2015 to four years in jail for his role in the murder of 300,000 Hungarian Jews at the…
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