MONTREAL (JTA) — At least three synagogues in Canada received hate mail warning that “Jewry must perish.” Police are investigating the envelopes delivered Monday to two synagogues in Montreal and one in Toronto. Each featured a drawing of a bleeding Star of David enclosing a Nazi swastika with the slogan “Jewry must perish.” B’nai Brith…
Rep. John Conyers’ resignation from Congress following accusations of sexual misconduct created a race to replace him as the top-ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee. The Democratic House caucus will decide this week between Jerry Nadler of New York and Zoe Lofgren of California, both vying for a position that has become pivotal in…
Ta-Nehisi Coates deleted his Twitter account Monday evening, and it may have been prompted by white nationalists. Even Richard Spencer — the face of American white nationalism — eventually piled on the debate over an essay criticizing Coates’ new book. Coates, a renowned public intellectual and a national correspondent for The Atlantic, was caught in…
The Israeli city of Kiryat Yam does not usually come up in the context of international politics. But word of the small working-class town of 40,000 near Haifa recently made it to the desk of the President of the United States. The reason: Kiryat Yam’s mayor, David Even Tzur, named a park in the city…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Palestinian teenager who was filmed slapping and harassing Israeli soldiers in the West Bank was arrested. Israeli security forces made the arrest overnight Monday. The girl, identified by Hebrew media as 17-year-old Ahed Tamimi, and two other girls were caught on camera Friday slapping and harassing the soldiers in an apparent…
A prominent federal appeals circuit judge is retiring after being investigated for sexual harassment, the New York Times reported. Alex Kozinski announced his retirement after 9th Circuit Chief Judge Sidney R. Thomas asked for a formal investigation into the allegations against Kozinski last week. “I cannot be an effective judge and simultaneously fight this battle,”…
The Obama administration derailed a major investigation into Hezbollah’s globe-spanning drug trafficking ring in order to save the Iran deal, a Politico report found. Beginning in 2008, the Drug Enforcement Agency ran a classified investigation into Hezbollah’s trading techniques, amassing evidence on how the terrorist group launders money and moves cocaine in North America. It…
The mystery-shrouded murder of Florida law professor Dan Markel is back in the spotlight as a new television investigation touts new leads in the puzzling slaying. Jeff Lacasse, an ex-boyfriend of Markel’s ex-wife, Wendi Adelson, denies being involved in the slaying, which police say was a murder for hire carried out in the driveway of…
Senator Chuck Schumer headlined a Long Island, New York fundraiser for Michigan’s Senator Debbie Stabenow this past weekend, organized by the pro-Israel group NORPAC, according to the website Jewish Insider. Schumer likened the Senate to “a New York shtiebel,” saying it was small and that members got to know each other. He told everyone he…
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump had a hard time filling their disclosure forms before joining the Trump administration. Coming from the business world, with multiple financial interests, the couple had to go back and update their reports, required by government ethic laws, and in some cases, are still refusing to provide information, claiming prior non-disclosure…
The Gray Lady visited Livingston, New Jersey last week to take the temperature of a town that’s worrying itself sick about the impact of the Republican tax bill on its home prices and broader economy. The town of about 30,000 is about half Jewish, so natch the New York Times article featured several Jewy names:…
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