The University of Iowa says it is planning to remove Steve Wynn’s name from a major institute on its campus in the wake of sexual assault allegations made against him, the Washington Post reported. In January, the Wall Street Journal reported that Wynn had pressured employees into sex. In 2013, the University of Iowa unveiled…
Adam Schiff accused Devin Nunes of secretly altering a classified ‘memo’ that accuses the FBI and the Department of Justice of abusing their power in their investigations into Donald Trump’s Russia ties, the New York Post reported. Schiff, the ranking Democrat in the House Intelligence Committee, said Nunes, the committee’s chair, sent Trump a version…
(JTA) — A New Jersey township has settled a lawsuit with an Orthodox Jewish group that alleged city ordinances illegally targeted Jews. The Mahwah Township Council, which had proposed an ordinance prohibiting the construction of some materials necessary for the construction of an eruv, approved the settlement with the Bergen Rockland Eruv Association in a 5-2…
A swastika and the words “Kill Them All. 2/1/18. For the motherland,” were found written on a boys’ bathroom wall at Wooster High School in Ohio, The Daily Record reported Tuesday. School superintendent Michael Tefs said the threat “seems to have very little credibility,” but would still “take this very seriously.” Security measures include placing…
Guy Fieri’s Times Square restaurant struggled with the $1.8 million annual rent charged by Kushner companies, according to the Washington Post.The restaurant closed December 31 and the space remains vacant. Kushner companies was formerly headed by Jared Kushner, before he resigned to join the Trump administration a year ago. The Post reports that Fieri’s restaurant,…
(JTA) — A Jewish boy was beaten by teen-age assailants in a suburb of Paris in what French prosecutors are calling an anti-Semitic attack. The boy, 8, was wearing a kippa while walking to a tutor on Tuesday afternoon in the Paris suburb of Paris when two assailants, about 15 years old, knocked him to…
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) – A television host in Poland suggested that the former Nazi concentration camps in the country be called “Jewish death camps.” The comment comes amid tensions between Poland and Israel over Polish legislation that would criminalize the use of the term “Polish death camps,” designed to make it clear that Nazi Germany…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Three Israeli teens are suing two activists in New Zealand for allegedly convincing pop star Lorde to cancel a concert in Israel. The teens are being represented by the Israeli legal rights group Shurat HaDin, which reportedly filed the lawsuit in a test case of a law passed in 2011 that allows…
A London-native Jewish teen lost his tefillin and tallis while traveling from Manchester to Amsterdam, forgetting to take the bag with him as he departed from the plane. Upon realizing, 17-year old Nachum Lobenstein was distraught, calling the Amsterdam airport daily for an update, but to no avail. Little did he know a Jew over…
Paul Nehlen made an appearance on the podcast show of David Duke, former Klu Klux Klan Grand Wizard and prominent white supremacist and anti-Semite. Nehlen is challenging House Speaker Paul Ryan in Wisconsin’s upcoming Republican primaries. In the interview, Duke asked Nehlen about Jews in the media and about white nationalism. “I think it’s right…
The United Orthodox Synagogues building in Houston, Texas, has been flooded three times in as many years. But Hurricane Harvey, which filled the space with seven feet of water in early September 2017, proved to be the final blow. The synagogue, in use since 1961, is set to be demolished, the Houston Chronicle reported. On…
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